Miscellaneous Hacks - Postbit Legacy - Usergroup Backgrounds

Hello! This is my first submission. I run LTXTech.com, I go by phantomzer0 over there, and I wanted this hack for a long time. I decided to write it on my own and the outcome was perfect. I know enough to get the job done, so if there is a more efficient way to produce this, by all means post it up!

Here is what this hack will do for you:

Demo Link:

http://ltxtech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2865

Now, you can make any usergroups use these backgrounds. You will have to design your own, of course, but you can assign them however you would like. In the case of my forum, we have them set-up for administrators. You could make a separate image for staff members, reg users, banned users, whatever you need. You can also duplicate it and assign different images for different colored styles. I'll show you how below.

Here's how to do it:
-- Navigate to your Admin CP. Once there go to Styles and Templates, then to Style Manager, and then click the "Go" button once you have decided which template you would like to install this on.

-- Scroll all the way to the bottom and look for the "Additional CSS Definitions" Box. I like to use the second box for all of my custom CSS, but you can surely use either one. Copy this and paste it into the box.

.postbit {
background: #101010 url(this is the url to your image for the background);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-left: solid 1px #3c3c3c;
border-right: solid 1px #3c3c3c;
}

Now, the border colors will need to be the same as the colors on your forum. These are the borders I'm talking about:



You will need to figure out the color code of your borders and assign the same color to the CSS code. You can adjust the size of the border by increasing or decreasing the "1px" numbers. 3px would obviously increase the size of the border to 3 pixels. You can also rename the CSS ".postbit" to something else, but if you do make sure you take note of that.

-- Now we will assign the background to the actual postbit. To do so, you need to navigate to Styles and Templates, then click on the "<< >>" button on the style you want to edit.

-- Scroll down the list and find "Postbit Templates"



-- Double click on "Postbit Legacy", as seen in the picture above.

Find:

<td class="alt2" width="175" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Replace With:

<if condition="is_member_of($post, #)">
<td class="postbit" width="175" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar [tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px id="td_post_$post[postid]">
<else />
<td class="alt2" width="175" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px"></if>

The red # symbol is for you to put a usergroup id # in. In my case, the admin group on my forum is 6, so instead of a # sign, there is a 6 there. You can assign multiple usergroups to use the same image, if you want. You can use the same code above for different forum styles, you just need to change the "td class="postbit"" to whatever the CSS is for the different style.

Example, my forum has a light and dark skin. The dark skin's CSS is "postbit" and the CSS for the light skin is "postbit2". On the Dark skin, I use the code above and for the light skin it's the exact same, only I have changed the td class to postbit2.

The only thing left to do is design a background image. Once you have that, you can upload it and point your CSS url to the image on your server.I'm fairly sure I have included all the steps to accomplish this, if I missed one, please point it out! Good luck and thanks for looking!

Update:
If you would like to assign multiple background images to multiple usergroups, see this post. User down.low explains very well how to achieve this result! Thanks DL!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=52

[Fastbird]

Not sure, and to be fair, you guys can use the image if you ask. It might seem lame but it took some time to make it and it's just a little courtesy. If you would like to use the image to install the mod, that's fine just shoot me a PM and let me know.

[Fastbird]

You can install the code onto the regular postbit template and it should work the same, you would need to change the shape of the image and perhaps a few minor things in the CSS, but it should work the same.

Looks great archonus!

EDIT: I need to take some new screenshots. Our server got hacked and a bunch of images got deleted. *sigh*

[Shadawg]

Originally Posted by archonus

how to do it for the posting area?

I have not began any work on it yet, when i have sum free time, will be looking into it if its possible at my level of coding.....

[Fastbird]

There's already a hack out there for that, but I can whip something up tonight.

[archonus]

Originally Posted by Fastbird

There's already a hack out there for that, but I can whip something up tonight.

that will be great !
thanks

[archonus]

any news Fastbird ? i tried the post background plugin but its not usefull, will be awesome if u give us a give to do the same as postbit but on the post ^^

[DeanLag]

Nice. I would LOVE to use this MOD. However, I want it to be on particular users and not usergroups cause only a couple of my forum members will be allowed to use it. I could do it the long way (Add people in seperate usergroups) but I rather do it the "proper" way. I'm guessing you only need to change the condition "<if condition="is_member_of($post, #)">" to a condition that looks along this: "<if condition="is_member($post, #)">, but I'm not sure about the syntax

morever, I would love to a separate background for the posts, which, I think, ressembles the one people just posted above. I know postbit is the left-sided panel of a post, but how do you call the right-side? (Legacy postbit)

Thanks and again, awesome Mod

[tommyturnage]

Originally Posted by shervin_dvb

hi dear
Thanks İnstalled
how to change quote box like this :

how to get to this form


i mean it's:

quote: Orginially posted By Fastbird
I Like It

Where can I get that background?

[HayleyP]

Nevermind

Great mod.

[kellyandmark04]

Looks great awaiting more screenshots.