End-User Options - UKBL ~ Choose Multiple Forum Colors - like VB.Org

UKBL ~ Choose Multiple Forum Colors - like VB.Org

With recent requests to do something similar to VB.org without all the complications of seperate CCS scripts and pages, Now you'll be able to change your forums color, Just like VB.org This hack will show you how to make and customise your own forum styles - Great Fun

PLEASE NOTE, The demo Screenshots are not the Colors you will be getting They are just quick examples i made to show different colors. The Colours are custom made by you when you Edit the CSS in your Styles template folder

Lets get Started

First you will need to decide how many colors you want, For example we'll chose just 4, but you can have as many or as little as you want.

Then decide which forum style you want to use to offer your color changes, I've used just the VB default style for this example.

So here we go..........

1. Go to your Admin CP and select Style Manager

2. Click the Link at the bottom - Add New Style

3. Parent Style - Select the Style that you want to offer Color Changes on, Normally this would be your chosen default style, and name it Default - Green Allow User selection - Yes Display order - 20 Then Save

4. You will see that you've created a copy of your default style called default green. Now we'll need to play with our Colors

5. On your defalt Green style click on All Style Options and GO, scroll down untill you come to the Body CSS

Then basically you need to work your way down this changing Background Colors, font colors etc,, If you click on one of the colored squares you will bring up a selector of colors which can let you chose the color you want without having to know Hex color numbers.

Trust me, I've not done this before and already within minutes i was making different forum styles, It really is that simple, The key word here is experiment You'll love it

To see your changes save and then click on the Forum Home Page link at the top right of your screen.

So basically thats what we need to do to make our different color Styles, Do a new Default Style for each color you want.

Color Squares

Next we'll need our color Squares









Just make your own in the color which best represents your Style and save to your forums /images/misc folder To fit nicely in the bottom navbar, I made mine 13 x 13 pixels and made them in paint.net, You can use photoshop or even windows paint

Half way there

Now comes the Fun Part

We need to Make our Color Squares Clickable so for that we'll have to edit a bit of code.

Open Notepad or a similar Text editor and add the following Code

<a href="link.com"><img src="picture.jpg"></a>

Now we will need to add our url of our style to the Front of that code like this

<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="picture.jpg"></a>

You can find out which Style id you need in the Style Manager in your AdminCP, Next we add the url of our color square.

If you already havn't done so, Upload your Color squares to your forums image/misc folder and use the full url to link to that in the code, so now our code will be like this

<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a>

Then we add a spacer Code to the end of our coded like this  

<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a> &nbsp;

Thats it, Then you do that with all the colors and save them one after the other, so you end up with one long line of code

   <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=6"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/red.png"></a>&nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=7"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/blue.png"></a>&nbsp;

Thats the code done, Now to add a few words to the Front of it

 Choose Your Color &nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=6"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/red.png"></a>&nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=7"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/blue.png"></a>&nbsp;

Remember to add a unedited Link back to your normal Style so members can keep using the original, You can use a white color square for this.

and thats it :up: save your work

Next we'll need to upload the code to our footer template of our Parent Style

Go to Default (Parent) style in the Admin CP and select All style Options > Edit Templates > Footer
and then find

<strong>

and below it add your code, Then save.

You'll see that it will copy to all the child styles automatically

You should get something along the lines of this









Thats all folks

Please Click Install and i'll support 100%

[RobbieZ]

The color blocks at the bottom of your are sumwhat chunky.

Any chance of how to have them like vb.org's nice and sharp please.

[HeloHi]

How would I replace the dropdown quick_style_chooser menu on the left hand side of the footer with this, rather than it being to the immediate left of "contact us"? I know it is probably very simple but I am a beginner

Clicked install, instructions were perfect (great job!) besides this little thing I wanted on my own...

[ShawneyJ]

going to give this a shoot, thanks very much

can the icons change with each style? or every icon has to be the same for each style?

[sKippah]

Hi there. Thanks for this...
I am using a few styles from here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=214585 - Grey will be standard, and lets say green, red, darkblue and plum should be the changeable ones..... I dont know how to add them that the Colorchange will work. How do i have to add the other styles?
Also one point i dont understand.. maybe its my bad english.... in the description is written "Display order - 20". Does it mean i need to give this number to every Style i add?! Confusing me

[K4GAP]

I am using the CA Evo 3.8.3 styles (just 8 of them) and would love to use your mod so users can make a simple click to change colors. Is there a simple way to implement your mod with the already installed styles I already have?

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by basilrath

Can someone tell me why you would want this rediculous "add on"

I'm as picky as anybody and I don't see anything "ridiculous" about it.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by GaryT

I am using the CA Evo 3.8.3 styles (just 8 of them) and would love to use your mod so users can make a simple click to change colors. Is there a simple way to implement your mod with the already installed styles I already have?

Hi Gary

The Mod redirects the user to the color/style which he wants to view, If your using several different styles as opposed to colors, then thats fine, all you nee to do is to include your style url in the clickable color square. You will need to chose a basic color which compliments your style or you could use a small block of say 4 or 5 of the most common colors for your particular style.

Your first style line of code would be something like this.........

<a href="http://www.yourforum.com/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.yourforum.com/forum/images/misc/style1.png"></a>

with this

http://www.yourforum.com/forum/index.php?styleid=5

Being the redirect to your chosen style

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Hi Gary

The Mod redirects the user to the color/style which he wants to view, If your using several different styles as opposed to colors, then thats fine, all you nee to do is to include your style url in the clickable color square. You will need to chose a basic color which compliments your style or you could use a small block of say 4 or 5 of the most common colors for your particular style.

Your first style line of code would be something like this.........

<a href="http://www.yourforum.com/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.yourforum.com/forum/images/misc/style1.png"></a>

with this

http://www.yourforum.com/forum/index.php?styleid=5

Being the redirect to your chosen style

I have multiple styles that only differ in color and each color comes in either fixed or fluid. These are the styles offered by Sofia.

I'll dig into your suggestion and see what happens... thanks

[UKBusinessLive]

Let us know how you got on Gary

[sKippah]

Hi. I still have some Probs. I added my Styles i want to use as u can see in the Picture


I have added this code in the footer of the Main Style - http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=39

Choose Your Color &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=39"><img src="http://www.test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/blue.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=41"><img src="http://test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/blue.png</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=42"><img src="http://www.test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/green.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=43"><img src="http://www.test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/red.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=44"><img src="http://www.test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/red.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=45"><img src="http://www.test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/orange.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=46"><img src="http://www.test.brainlag.eu/images/colorchoose/orange.png"></a>

Still have probs with showing the squares (just using 4 atm to test it).

Another question i have is if i have to add the Code to all my styles?
btw.. I just want to use the Evo Styles. Thanks for helping me.