Create Style Groups for Style Chooser

If you have a lot of style groups added, it can be hard to organize them in the quick style chooser located in the footer of each page. I wanted to provide a visual break between style groups so I came up with this mini modification. It requires 2 file edits and two new minor templates and a minor query.

Create the following templates:

optiongroup_start:

<optgroup label="$optiontitle">

optiongroup_end:

</optgroup>

Next open up includes/functions.php and find:

PHP Code:

    eval ('$stylesetlist .= "' . fetch_template('option') . '";');
    $stylesetlist .= construct_style_options($style['styleid'], $depthmark . '--', false, $quickchooser); 


Change that to:

PHP Code:

    if ($style['userselect'] == 1)
    {
     eval ('$stylesetlist .= "' . fetch_template('option') . '";');
     $stylesetlist .= construct_style_options($style['styleid'], $depthmark . '--', false, $quickchooser);
    }
    else
    {
     eval ('$stylesetlist .= "' . fetch_template('optiongroup_start') . '";');
     $stylesetlist .= construct_style_options($style['styleid'], $depthmark . '--', false, $quickchooser);
     eval ('$stylesetlist .= "' . fetch_template('optiongroup_end') . '";');
    } 


In admincp/template.php find:

PHP Code:

 print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['allow_user_selection'], 'userselect', $style['userselect']); 


and replace with:

PHP Code:

 print_yes_no_other_row($vbphrase['allow_user_selection'], 'userselect', 'Option Group', $style['userselect']); 


Finally run this query:

 ALTER TABLE `style` CHANGE `userselect` `userselect` SMALLINT( 5 ) DEFAULT '1' NOT NULL

This modification is not phrase friendly but you could easily create a phrase for the words "Option Group" used in admincp/template.php and implement it. You can also modify the templates to apply a CSS class and style the option groups to fit your site.

Feel free to modify this to suit your needs.

A demo can be see at www.vbulletinmods.com. Just select the style chooser there.

[M1th]

I've noticed that the optiongroup_start and optiongroup_end arent cached on any pages. Just thought i'd let you know.

[blubber12]

any ideas out there

[M1th]

You will need to upload the style AGAIN and make it a Child style for the style you've selected to be the category option.