Forum Display Enhancements - Hide a style from style chooser

A simple plugin which will allow you to hide a specified user selectable style from the Quick Style Chooser which appears at the bottom of every page in vBulletin whilst still allowing the style to be used.

Instructions:
0. If you made modifications to your 'options' template as per previous instructions, you will need to revert the template
1. Import attached plugin via "Products and Plugins"," Download/Upload Plugin"
2. Go into the plugin manager and edit the "Hide Style From Style Chooser" plugin
3. Change the 'x' in '$mo37_hidden_styleid = x' to be the StyleID of the style you wish to hide
4. Set the plugin status to be active
5. Save
The style is now hidden, but still usable by you users.

To disable/uninstall, set the plugin status to not be active or delete the plugin.

If you use the add-on that extends my mobile style, you will not need to do this as it is (soon will be) an option as of version 0.0.3.

See this post for a plugin which hides the chooser in usercp options.


All posts in this thread up to post #9 were in reference to the original way I thought of doing this. I have kept the original contents of this template modification below for reference

**** FOLLOWING INFORMATION KEPT FOR REFERENCE ONLY ****

Originally Posted by dartho

If you have multiple styles installed but wish to 'hide' some from users while still be able to use them you can use this template modification to hide particular styles form the quick chooser:

Edit your 'options' template - the original should look like this:

<option value="$optionvalue" class="$optionclass" $optionselected>$optiontitle</option>

and change it to the following:

<if condition="($optionvalue!=x) && ($optiontitle!='yyyyyy')">
<option value="$optionvalue" class="$optionclass" $optionselected>$optiontitle</option>
</if>

where x is the styleid of your mobile style and yyyyyy is the name of your mobile style. The name is case sensative!

This should stop it being added to the drop down list.

If you wish to hide multiple styles , you could extend the conditional as follows:

<if condition="(($optionvalue!=x1) && ($optiontitle!='yyyyyy1')) || (($optionvalue!=x2) && ($optiontitle!='yyyyyy2'))">
<option value="$optionvalue" class="$optionclass" $optionselected>$optiontitle</option>
</if>

where x2 is the 2nd styleid and yyyyyy2 is the 2nd style name.

[BeerLuver]

Thanks for the update dartho

[mesdar]

thanx

[sung]

Is there anyway so that the style is also hidden from the Forum Skin drop down list in the User CP and not just the Quick Style Chooser?

[sung]

Originally Posted by sung

Is there anyway so that the style is also hidden from the Forum Skin drop down list in the User CP and not just the Quick Style Chooser?

Made a plugin that does just this. It uses the same variable ($mo37_hidden_styleid) to hide the style, and is inactive by default.

So assuming you're already using dartho's plugin and it is working just upload this one and set it active and the same style will be hidden in the User CP as well.

[fta2k]

I've installed this and put in ID in the edit but it still shows in the dropdown.



Any ideas?


EDIT:

Ok, I'm an idiot.

I was using skin display number and not skin id. It's all fixed now.

[Merriweather]

Is there a way to hide more than one skin with this mod?

[dartho]

This is probably not very efficient, but you could edit the plugin and duplicate the code for each styleid...

PHP Code:

mo37_hidden_styleid = x;
$mo37start = strpos($quickchooserbits, '<option value="'.$mo37_hidden_styleid.'"'); 
if ($mo37start !== FALSE) {
  $quickchooserbits = substr($quickchooserbits , 0, $mo37start).substr($quickchooserbits , strpos($quickchooserbits, '</option>', $mo37start) + strlen('</option>'));
}
mo37_hidden_styleid = y;
$mo37start = strpos($quickchooserbits, '<option value="'.$mo37_hidden_styleid.'"'); 
if ($mo37start !== FALSE) {
  $quickchooserbits = substr($quickchooserbits , 0, $mo37start).substr($quickchooserbits , strpos($quickchooserbits, '</option>', $mo37start) + strlen('</option>'));
} 


replace 'x' with one styleid, and 'y' with the next ...

[burntire]

I just went to -vb options-Style & Language Settings- and unchecked the ability to change styles. In the 2 styles I use I allow user selection. This removes the ability to change styles from the footer and usercp, but it also forces the mobile style with the mobile detection mod.

[accludetuner]

works great on 3.8.3

[choccyclaire]

Originally Posted by sung

Made a plugin that does just this. It uses the same variable ($mo37_hidden_styleid) to hide the style, and is inactive by default.

So assuming you're already using dartho's plugin and it is working just upload this one and set it active and the same style will be hidden in the User CP as well.

What about if you used darthos example a few posts above in order to hide more than one?

When I used this plugin it just eliminated the last style.