Automatic Post Coloring

This is a simple little hack taht allows users to specify a color by name or hex code in theor profile.

If they do (we'll use limegreen as the color they chose for examples) then all their posts from that point on will have
[color=limegreen ] and [/color ] surrounding them.

It does not retroactively affect previous posts. Only new ones.
If they post as limegreen for a day, then change to red, all their limegreen posts stay that way.

The hack involves adding 3 lines of code to 2 different files (same 3 lines for both files) and creating a Custom Profile field.

[Twizted]

Originally posted by J-OST
Yes, it works great with 2.2.0.

you must have installed it then right?

could u pleaz help me out and tell me where to put the new part of the code at???

[Reeve of shinra]

Step three has two parts ....

A) open newreply - find what it asks for then copy / past over the info from step 4.

B) open Newthread.php - find what it asks for then copy paste over the same information you pasted found in step 4.

Remember that 'changeme' must read field5 or field6 or field437 or whatever ...

[Reeve of shinra]

heretic - make sure you have the right field selected. ie field5.

[Twizted]

it said

Directly underneath those, before the query, add this (same code for both files)

do i add it right under that part of the code.. or into the middle of that code???

the original code is

PHP Code:

        } else {
      if ($attachmentid and !$foruminfo[moderateattach]) {
        $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET attach = attach + 1 WHERE threadid = '$threadid'");
      } 


so would i make it go right under it like this

PHP Code:

    } else {
      if ($attachmentid and !$foruminfo[moderateattach]) {
        $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET attach = attach + 1 WHERE threadid = '$threadid'");
      }
      //  attempt at auto-surround post with tags
      if ($bbuserinfo[changeme]!="") {
        $message = "[color=".$bbuserinfo[changeme]."]".$message."[/color]";
        } 


or before the query in it?

im confused right now -.-

[Twizted]

awesome it works

[Ed FvC]

This is pretty sweet. How about adding a default font face, too? I'm always typing font=trebuchet ms color=#99cc00...gets rather old.

Great hack!

[heretic]

Originally posted by Reeve of shinra
heretic - make sure you have the right field selected. ie field5.

yes, I was sure.

I'll try it again.

[Mike Gaidin]

Sorry I didn't see this sooner Twizted. I'm glad it's working for you now.

[Reeve of shinra]

You can actually change it to font face very easilly by repeating the same steps and changing the surrounding tags in the hack part. You will see what I mean....

[Logan]

I really like this. Good job!!!