Glowing usernames based on postcount?

[Thomas P]

Hi,
please post that or a reference into the Hack Releases forum,
thx for your work,
-Tom

[Reno of Shinra]

OK... I want to make it so that all my admins have glowing usernames in threads while everyone else doesn't.

Now... the question is...
What am I doing wrong? I've tried this and I still don't get glowing admins.
I know I can make everyone glow... but... aggh.

This is under ### start buildpostbit ###
function getpostbit($post)
in board/admin/functions.php
vB ver 2.0.3

PHP Code:

    // global options
    global $showdeficon,$showonline,$displayemails,$enablepms,$allowsignatures,$wordwrap,$dateformat,$timeformat,$logip,$replacewords,$postsperday,$avatarenabled,$registereddateformat,$viewattachedimages;
    
// begin glowing admin attempt
    $post[specialusername] = $post[username];

    $usergroupid=$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'];
    if ($usergroupid == 5) { $post[specialusername] = "<table style=\"filter:glow(color=orange, strength=4)\"><tr><td>$post[username]</td></tr></table>"; }

// end attempt 


I'm really scratching my head here... do I need to use someother variable or something to get the poster's usergroupid?

I am a PHP newbie... but I saw $usergroupid=$bbuserinfo['usergroupid']; used further down in functions.php and figured it should work...

But I guess not.

Any suggestions?

[dirgotronix]

looks to me like $bbuserinfo isn't defined in that section (see the global line for what variables are usable)

at least, that's my best guess.

[dirgotronix]

Ah, and you're using an admin function, that I assume is only for the Admin CP. try showthread.php, member.php, or functions.php. Where are you trying to make it glow? In threads, the memberlist, user info...?

[Reno of Shinra]

I was just basing this off the above version which uses postcounts...

I set where the glow effect is displayed through my templates... that isn't related to this.

The function is supposed to set the $post[specialusername] to $post[username] plus html formatting...

I KNOW it work, because if I remove the conditional and just say

PHP Code:

$post[specialusername] = "<table style=\"filter:glow(color=orange, strength=4)\"><tr><td>$post[username]</td></tr></table>"; 


then ALL usernames glow.

That's not a problem.

My problem is that the if statement that checks the usergroupid does not work.

That's the ONLY thing that needs fixing...

As I asked... do i need a different variable in there or something?

$bbuserinfo is declared a few lines above where I pasted code from...

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start buildpostbit #######################
function getpostbit($post) {
// sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template

    // user
    global $bbuserinfo,$ignore;
    // showthread
    global $counter,$firstnew,$sigcache,$highlight,$postid,$forum;
    // global options
    global $showdeficon,$showonline,$displayemails,$enablepms,$allowsignatures,$wordwrap,$dateformat,$timeformat,$logip,$replacewords,$postsperday,$avatarenabled,$registereddateformat,$viewattachedimages;
    
// begin glowing admin attempt
    $post[specialusername] = $post[username];

    $usergroupid=$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'];
    if ($usergroupid == 5) { $post[specialusername] = "<table style=\"filter:glow(color=orange, strength=4)\"><tr><td>$post[username]</td></tr></table>"; }

// end attempt 


I dont have a

############## Start buildpostbit ############

In admin / functions.php and i am running 2.01, any suggestions?

[Kier]

Originally posted by Soul Lord XL
I dont have a

############## Start buildpostbit ############

In admin / functions.php and i am running 2.01, any suggestions?

Yes, upgrade to 2.0.3... it's available free to all licenced members.

ahh ok, will do!

[Baratator]

Originally posted by Reno of Shinra
I was just basing this off the above version which uses postcounts...

I set where the glow effect is displayed through my templates... that isn't related to this.

The function is supposed to set the $post[specialusername] to $post[username] plus html formatting...

I KNOW it work, because if I remove the conditional and just say

PHP Code:

$post[specialusername] = "<table style=\"filter:glow(color=orange, strength=4)\"><tr><td>$post[username]</td></tr></table>"; 


then ALL usernames glow.

That's not a problem.

My problem is that the if statement that checks the usergroupid does not work.

That's the ONLY thing that needs fixing...

As I asked... do i need a different variable in there or something?

$bbuserinfo is declared a few lines above where I pasted code from...

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start buildpostbit #######################
function getpostbit($post) {
// sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template

    // user
    global $bbuserinfo,$ignore;
    // showthread
    global $counter,$firstnew,$sigcache,$highlight,$postid,$forum;
    // global options
    global $showdeficon,$showonline,$displayemails,$enablepms,$allowsignatures,$wordwrap,$dateformat,$timeformat,$logip,$replacewords,$postsperday,$avatarenabled,$registereddateformat,$viewattachedimages;
    
// begin glowing admin attempt
    $post[specialusername] = $post[username];

    $usergroupid=$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'];
    if ($usergroupid == 5) { $post[specialusername] = "<table style=\"filter:glow(color=orange, strength=4)\"><tr><td>$post[username]</td></tr></table>"; }

// end attempt 


same problem : if i don't put the condition it works but fo all the users... now how can we make it work only for the admins

[dirgotronix]

I toyed with the variables that show in postbit, and here's the one I found:

$userinfo[usergroupid]

That displays the number of the usergroup. Try that instead of $bbuserinfo[usergroupid].