What style are we all using?

NOTE: Make sure all your styles have different display orders (only if they are in the same grouping). For instance, don't have 2 styles each with the display order of '1' otherwise this hack will just show 'Style: ' and no style shown.

This hack will show each users current selected style when viewing a post.
If you want to see how this looks, take a look at the screenshot attached.

The style system is a little more complex than the vBulletin 2 one, but it's still pretty simple and straightforward.

My apologies if this has already been released! I must also note that all of this code is original, meaning I made it all myself, I didn't look at someone else's code if anyone was wondering, so that we don't play the 'blame game' later on.

NOTE: For those who are wondering, this hack adds NO EXTRA QUERIES to your pages! Meaning the load and processing time are about the same as usual, they don't change much

Okay anyhow, here we go:

Instructions

Open includes/functions_showthread.php and find

PHP Code:

    static $gotrank, $sigcache, $sigperms, $gotage, $month, $day, $year, $counter; 


Above, add:

PHP Code:

    global $stylechoosercache, $vbphrase; 


Find

PHP Code:

    eval('$retval = "' . fetch_template($maintemplatename) . '";'); 


Above add

PHP Code:

    // check what style the user is viewing
    if (!$post['styleid'])
    {
        $post['style'] = '(' . $vbphrase['not_specified'] . ')';
    }
    else
    {
        // loop thru the $stylechoosercache to see which style the user is using, has to loop thru a few times
        foreach ($stylechoosercache as $parentstyle)
        {
            foreach ($parentstyle as $innerstyleid)
            {
                if ($innerstyleid[0]['styleid'] == $post['styleid'])
                {
                    $post['style'] = '<a href="' . $vboptions['forumhome'] . '.php?' . $session['sessionurl'] . 'styleid=' . $post['styleid'] . '">' . $innerstyleid[0]['title'] . '</a>';
                    continue;
                }
            }    
        }
    } 


Open the postbit template (or postbit_legacy if you're using old-style postbits) and find

					<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon]</div>

Above, add

					<!-- user forum style -->
<div>$vbphrase[style]: <if condition="$post[style] == '$vbphrase[not_specified]'"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?styleid=$vboptions[styleid]">Default Style</a><else />$post[style]</if></div>
					<!-- / user forum style -->

Now add the following phrase:

Phrase Type: GLOBAL

Title: not_specified
Text: not specified

Title: style
Text: Style

All done!

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by BarBeQue

Hmm, going slightly off-topic here but....

How does that work if another style has slight changes in the hacks.. for example take vb.org here.. I noticed that the green style uses w ared /me line while the blue style has a yellow line

It still works fine if a style has changes This hack basically doesn't even know (and care) whether or not a style has changes or not

[Vivi Ornitier]

Ya this isn't working properly i think.

It says

Style:

But for some users, it will show the style for them because they choose a certain style which is the forum's default one that I specified in the vboptions. If they choose another style (not child of any style), it will not show it properly.

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by Vivi Ornitier

Ya this isn't working properly i think.

It says

Style:

But for some users, it will show the style for them because they choose a certain style which is the forum's default one that I specified in the vboptions. If they choose another style (not child of any style), it will not show it properly.

Hmm most likely something wrong with the not_specified phrase then.

Replace

PHP Code:

$post['style'] = '(' . $vbphrase['not_specified'] . ')'; 


with

PHP Code:

$post['style'] = '(not specified)'; 


and tell me if that fixes it.

[Vivi Ornitier]

no that didn't fix it,

some people have

Style: (not specified)

Some people have

Style: XXXXXXXX

Some peopel just straight up have

Style:

and that's it, lol. I don't understand this hack at all


www.squareultima.com if you wanna take a look at it. The Green style is the original style and the default one and if people choose that style, it will work nice and dandy but if you choose any others, it doesn't show up at all, very odd.

[Vb-Hispano]

It does not work with dependent styles

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by Vb-Hispano

It does not work with dependent styles

Works for me for dependant styles.

[Vivi Ornitier]

something is most definitely wrong wiht the code in this hack. I installed it again and the exact same results, it's not even that confusing to instlal.

[Mike_XBLW]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Works for me for dependant styles.

Perhaps, you could tell me why it's not working for mine....I copied the code and installed as your instructions...but, yet...not working

[neocorteqz]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Works for me for dependant styles.

Works for me as well.

[Dart1337]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Sorry about that guys

Add the following phrase:

Title: style
Text: Style

Well... I thought it was working for me. Then I started getting the "Style: " problem too.

[high]* Dart1337 clicks uninstall for now.[/high]