Users Choose Username Font/Color Posts

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------------------- Allow users to change what color their username is in posts --------------------
------------------------------------------ Via UserCP -------------------------------------------
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Want members to be able to choose the font color of their usernames in posts?

[high]Step 1[/high]
[high]Go to User Profile Fields >> Add New User Profile Field[/high]

Choose A "Single-Line Text Box"

[high]Title:[/high] "Color of Your Username"

[high]Description:[/high] Type in the color in which you will like your username to be. Keep in mind that writing the colors in text does not always work, so try and format it like this: #ff0000 (that code is for red).

[high]Display Size:[/high] 11

[high]Max length of allowed user input:[/high] 7


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]


[high]Step 2[/high]
Now go to edit your postbit template and search for this code:

$post[musername]

Replace it with this

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

X will be the id for the field in which you created. To view the id of the field created go to the "Profile Field Manager" and find the field ID of the field you made. (This appears under the "Name" column). It should show as fieldx where x is the ID.


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]



Want them to be able to choose the font as well?

[high]Step 1[/high]
[high]Go to User Profile Fields >> Add New User Profile Field[/high]

Choose A "Single-Line Text Box"

[high]Title:[/high] "Font of Your Username"

[high]Description:[/high] Type in the font in which you will like. For example for tahoma, type in "Tahoma", without the quotations.

[high]Display Size:[/high] 15

[high]Max length of allowed user input:[/high] 20


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]

[high]Step 2[/high]
Now go to edit your postbit template and search for this code:

$post[musername]

Replace it with this

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="font-family:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

The X in font-family will be the id for the field in which you created. To view the id of the field created go to the "Profile Field Manager" and find the field ID of the field you made. (This appears under the "Name" column). It should show as fieldx where x is the ID.


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]

[high]AND WE'RE DONE![/high]

If you want them to be able to choose both color AND font, only do step 1 in each part, and then replace:

$post[musername]

with

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="font-family:$post[fieldx]; color:$post[fieldx];">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

The X in font-family will be the id for the field in which you created. The X in font-color will be the id for the field in which you created before. To view the id of the field created go to the "Profile Field Manager" and find the field ID of the field you made. (This appears under the "Name" column). It should show as fieldx where x is the ID.


[HIGH]Current Add-Ons[/high]
Exclude Certain Colors



[HIGH]Planned For Next Version (So Far)[/high]
- Have a pop up that allows you to pick a color and then shows the code for that color.

If you have any other ideas feel free to post them!

[john1744]

Any updates?

[jesus likes pie]

this would be really good. Excellent idea but I wont use it since we resrve different/special colors for staff only.

I'll get the font color one though!

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by gio~logist

So then i suppose you expect me to try and guess what color each admin of a forum has set each usergroup to so that then i can determind what to put int he drop down?

Of course not, but you could have a place where the admin could enter in the colors that are excluded, and the hack would then ignore those colors, or even make it easy for the admin to add the colors available themselves, and then just those colors would be available in the drop down list. As long as members can duplicate admin and mod colors the hack is useless, and defeats a basic vB feature.

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

Of course not, but you could have a place where the admin could enter in the colors that are excluded, and the hack would then ignore those colors, or even make it easy for the admin to add the colors available themselves, and then just those colors would be available in the drop down list. As long as members can duplicate admin and mod colors the hack is useless, and defeats a basic vB feature.

Just what I was thinking: if you could somehow specify a banned or black-list of color vars, then I'd totally install this hack.

[john1744]

Yeah that would be awesome, cause right now I have a user who is a ghost. IE: his username is the same as the background of the forum.

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by john1744

right now I have a user who is a ghost. IE: his username is the same as the background of the forum.

Hehehe.... sorry, didn't mean to laugh, but that is funny (and part of the reason why I won't use this hack as it stands) :surprised:

[fly]

I use postbit_legacy and $post[musername] appears twice (unless I have it in there twice from some other hack...). I'll figure it out, but you may want to update the instructions...

[Gio~Logist]

[high]Exclude Certain Colors Add-On[/high]


Change

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

To

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] == 'COLORCODE1' OR $post['fieldx'] == 'COLORCODE2' OR $post['fieldx'] == 'COLORCODE3' OR $post['fieldx'] == 'COLORCODE4'  ">

<else />
<font style="font-family:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
</if>

	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

Replace COLORCODE1, COLORCODE2, ETC. with the codes you want to excluce.

[john1744]

Simply awesome thanks tons gio~logist

[NuclioN]

How to use this just for the online colors on forumhome??