End-User Options - Custom User Style

Custom User Style 1.02

Description.

Allow your users to create their own custom style to use on the forum using CSS, which can be generated using a built in generator.

This is just something I whipped up in my spare time just playing around... :P If you can use it, then, great... I will probably be adding more to it as time goes on, such as usergroup permissions, and maybe I'll try and make it a bit more user friendly, but it's as it stands now.

Oh, and I will definitely cache the template... once I figure out how...

DEMO: http://www.mindifidoaj.com/dev/forum/misc.php?do=gencss

Details:

1 product upload
1 template edit (there may be the need to do more customization if you have custom CSS)
1 new profile field

Install:

1. Product Upload:

ACP > Product Manager > Add/Import Product > Upload product-userstyle.xml with over write set to 'Yes.'

2. Create User Options:

ACP > User Profile Fields > Add New User Profile Field

Add a Multiple-Line Text Box...

Title: Custom Style

Description: Design your own color scheme using CSS, use the <a href="misc.php?do=gencss" rel="nofollow">CSS Generator</a> to aid you in creating this code.

Increase the max length to your liking, you may want it to be longer for them to be able to include background images.

I put 75 for the field length, and 20 for the text area heighth.

Field Required --> NO
Field Edited by User --> YES
Private Field --> YES
Field Searchable on Members List --> NO

Display Page: 'Options:Other'


3. Template Edit:

In headinclude...

Find:

$style[css]

Replace with:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldxx]">
<style type="text/css">$bbuserinfo[fieldxx]</style> 
<else /> 
$style[css]
</if>

*** Replace 'fieldxx' with the field id of the custom profile field we created.

Now have your users, if they wish, go to edit options in user cp, and use the CSS generator to customize thier style. The default that is in the text boxes is default vBulletin.

*** You may have to edit the code if you require custom CSS definitions.

update history:
*1.0.2 - fixed a phrase

Thank you and Enjoy.

If you use this please click Install!

[SBlueman]

Installed and working on 3.6.8 for me. No issues at all either.

I'd love a preview and usergroup permission setting for this modification. Excellent work overall though!

[blind-eddie]

Awesome, thanks

Note: Its kind of scary to see to coders demo page with a database error message.

[blind-eddie]

This mod is awesome.......My Members are going to love this.