Glowing usernames based on postcount?

[dirgotronix]

guess not, unless it has a different name... oy...

Well, I tossed a script together, heres instructions for those of you that want it...


Add a new user profile field, call it favorite color or something, and make sure they do it all lowecase, one word, no spaces, as per the html approved color list found on many an html help page.

Take note of the field# of this field because you'll need to edit the script to use it.

go to: http://www.dirgotronix.net/test/glow.phps

save it on your server somewhere, I put glow.php in the forum directory. Change the require statement to point to your config.php, and change all instances of "field14" to whatever your favorite color field is.

Change $colormultiplier to a different number based on your highest user posts. a multiplier of 25 means that the color will be at its brightest for a user with 2600 posts. This is good for my forum, but it probably isn't for yours. I'll end up working out some kind of check and averaging in a bit, but it took me all night to get where I am.

right up from the bottom, there's an "if ( $glowposts < 500 )". This means that if the user has 0-499 posts, they don't get a glowing name. Change that as you see fit.

Save the file. Now, open up your control panel and change your phpinclude to have "require("/var/www/forum/glow.php"); or wherever you put it.

Next, edit admin/functions.php:

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[QUOTE]global $showdeficon,$showonline,$displayemails,$enablepms ,$allowsignatures,$wordwrap,$dateformat,$timeforma t,$logip,$replacewords,$postsperday,$avatarenabled ,$registereddateformat,$viewattachedimages;