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

[KeyHunterz]

I finally got it to work, had to tweak the code a little to match up with my current skin.

Demo

Great hack!

[Mobo]

I am trying to use a PNG image and have my forums background texture show through. I've tried adding the "transparent" property to the code, but that did not seem to work. Is there a way to make it where the part of the postbit that does not have an image applied via this mod not to be filled with a color, leaving it transparent?

[Fastbird]

Originally Posted by Mobo

I am trying to use a PNG image and have my forums background texture show through. I've tried adding the "transparent" property to the code, but that did not seem to work. Is there a way to make it where the part of the postbit that does not have an image applied via this mod not to be filled with a color, leaving it transparent?

You need to use a program like Gimp or Photoshop and 'erase the background' so that you see a tile checkboard under the image. Just use the eraser and erase eveything you don't want to show up.

[Mobo]

Sorry, guess I did not explain that very well. I already have the transparent png image. My problem is, when I use the png image, the part that is transparent shows up black and not as the normal color for my site.

[Fastbird]

That's because your image is not transparent.

[Mobo]

The image up there now is not transparent, as it does not display it correctly and cause that area to show as black. So, I replaced it with some thing that does work... a JPG.

[Malceski09]

would this work on 3.7?

[ChopSuey]

Originally Posted by Malceski09

would this work on 3.7?

Since its just some edits, im pretty sure it would work

[Malceski09]

cheers mate ill give it a go

[JeansJoe]

I could use some help here.
I am using this one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=207742
and I want to have a special background for girls on my forums. So it is not based on a usergroup but on a field.

My coding skills are just too low for that - can someone tell me how to state the if statement for this one?