Greentext

[Kybyrian]

Thought it would be pretty cool after hearing out a couple requests, but I have no real idea how to go about doing it. Cutting to the chase, greentext *chan style.

Text after a ">" at the beginning of a line would turn all the text after it until a line break green.

>exactly like
this

I understand BBCode could do a job like this pretty simply, but we were looking for something automatic.

Would appreciate any help on this.

[Simon Lloyd]

Do you mean in each post?

[Kybyrian]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Do you mean in each post?

Yeah, this would happen any time somebody makes a post with > at the beginning of a line.

[Simon Lloyd]

I'm no expert but i think you'll need to create a plugin maybe using the hook postdata_save and use some kind of replace function or maybe regex to match any line that starts with >

So the replace function COULD look like this

PHP Code:

$text= str_ireplace( '>*' , '<span style="font-color:green;">'/>*/'</span>', $text); 


--------------- Added [DATE]1328418603[/DATE] at [TIME]1328418603[/TIME] ---------------

Or maybe in PCRE format

PHP Code:

$string='>*'; 
$string = preg_replace('/>*/i', '<span style="font-color:green;">'/>*/'</span>', $string); 


I'm a real novice when it comes to REGEX so maybe this will get someone's attention and they'll be able to tweak it for you

[Kybyrian]

I managed to get this, stemming somewhat off of yours and hitting up regex and using the hook location postbit_display_complete.

PHP Code:

$pattern = htmlspecialchars('/>.*/');
$replacement = '<span style="color:green">text</span>';
$this->post['message'] = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $this->post['message']); 


This replaces anything after > on one line with the green word "text".

It seems I can perfectly call the text, but I cannot change its color. If I try to input "<span style=\"color:green\">$pattern</span>"; or any such thing in, it simply returns />.*/ instead of the actual text that regex defines. This occurs even when I place the regex itself in the span tags.

[Simon Lloyd]

Thats beacue in your REGEX (and im no expert!) you are replacing > with '<span style="color:green">text</span>' and not '<span style="color:green">/>*/</span>'

What i mean to say you need to replace >* (so > and wildcard) with >* but wrapped in the span, as it is your replacing it with the word "text" in green

Have you tried:

PHP Code:

$replacement = '<span style="color:green">$pattern</span>'; 


or some variation with or without more single quotes?

[Kybyrian]

Yeah, I've actually tried that. It wasn't returning the text in the regex. I went a different route and got a working code. Thanks for you help, though, it gave me my starting point.

PHP Code:

$pattern = htmlspecialchars('/(>.*)/');
$replacement = '<span style="color:#789922">$1</span>';
$this->post['message'] = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $this->post['message']); 


[Simon Lloyd]

Ah yes, i remember that now "$1", glad i got you started

[Zakalway]

This works great, except it shows up as regular plain text when quoted.

Any way to make it appear as green text in quotes?

Never mind; it shows up fine in quotes. It just doesn't show up in reply previews.

[itsRahul]

sorry for the bump, but this does not seem to be working when I added a plugin to postbit_display_complete. is there something that needs to be changed to make it applicable to vb5?

it just doesn't modify the post at all

PHP Code:

$pattern = htmlspecialchars('/(>.*)/');
$replacement = '<span style="color:#789922">$1</span>';
$this->post['message'] = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $this->post['message']);