Change Style Drop-Down

This is exactly what you see here, on this board's main page.
It allows you to easily change the style you are using.
Please note that it does not update your user profile as well, it simply sets a cookie, and until it expires you will see the style you selected.
Anyhow, download the attached .txt file and do what it says.

Scroll down to a post by me if you'd like the hack to update the user setting in the database!
The attached version does NOT do that!

Have fun and happy holidays!

[Liz]

I'm getting a weird problem wih 2.3.0.

First the default style wasn't showing up. So I went in and selected it for my style. And it worked.

But now it only says that one person is using it when in reality over 200 are. Any ideas on how to get the correct user count?

Edited: I think I figured out what the problem was. I'm just not sure how to fix it.

on 2.3.0 - when you go to select a style in your user CP, the first one that shows up is "use forum default" - I think that's what the problem is. I've also installed the "What styles are we all using" hack, and that comes up blank for all the people who had Default since that's the spot where "use forum default" now is. But if I go into someones account through the admin CP and I change their style to the Default one, it adds a number and it shows up on postbit (what styles are we all using).

Any ideas on how to get rid of the "use forum default" thing? I took it out of the template it was in through the admin CP, but it still isn't working. So I'm guessing I need to take it out of one of the php files. I just don't want to mess anything up. Anyone have any ideas?

Edited Again: bluecat - Try going into your own User CP and selecting the style that doesn't show up. It probably isn't selected, so I'd try using it yourself, and then it should work.

[TutorialForums]

Mine stopped working correctly after upgrading to 2.30 as well. Hopefully someone can post a fix.... a lot of my users are a bit confused about it suddenly not working as usual haha

Peace.

[willyfoo]

[QUOTE=N9ne]For me it has worked in 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7 AND 2.2.8...so there should be no problems

[deathemperor]

ok, look like i got a same problem as every1 might get.
I added the code as instructions, but it only show the current style, not the drop down one. so i cant chose them
any suggestions ?

[MaDCaT75]

What about if you wanna put in the dropdown thing: "Choose your style here:" ?

[ronb]

I'm having a problem installing this hack. We're using the .php3 versions of the files for our board. I added the codes and created the template as suggested in the text but when i went from one screen to another i got a 'parse' error. I do not have the full context of the message. We list all the templates in the beginning of the index.php3 file. Do i need to put the new template in that list also? What else could i be doing wrong?

I was able to correct this error but i do not see any drop down box.

[SVTOA]

[QUOTE=pahbi]I fixed my problem, and it works fine now.

First I changed in index.php: (its the bit of code for this hack)

$allstyles=$DB_site->query("SELECT style.title, user.styleid, COUNT(*) AS count FROM user LEFT JOIN style USING (styleid) WHERE style.styleid IS NOT NULL AND style.userselect=1 GROUP BY user.styleid");

To:

$allstyles=$DB_site->query("SELECT styleid,title FROM style ORDER BY title");


And then in the forumhome_dropdownbit template I changed the text to read:

<option value="$thisstyle[styleid]" $stylesel>$thisstyle[title]</option>


I don't get a users count anymore, but that really wasn't very important to me anyways. The most important thing is that it lists all of the styles available, and allows the person to choose one, and in that regard, this works perfect for me.

- Pahbi

[Red Blaze]

Problem, I'm using 2.3.3 software and now it won't switch styles. The address bar says it switched but nothing really happend. It only refreshed the page.

[deathemperor]

well, is this default in vb3 ? I cant see it AdminCP, how can I make it changeable for users ?

[Aceman]

I had this working in VB3 but today when I reverted some templates everything went to hell. I've recoded in the the forumhome, forumhome_dropdownbit, and forumhome_styleselect. I have also tried to code into the index.php file but every single time I put this code:

// style drop down box (by FireFly)
$allstyles = $DB_site->query("SELECT style.title, user.styleid, COUNT(*) AS count FROM user LEFT JOIN style USING (styleid) WHERE style.styleid IS NOT NULL AND style.userselect=1 GROUP BY user.styleid");
$dropdownbits='';
while ($thisstyle=$DB_site->fetch_array($allstyles)) {
if ($styleid==$thisstyle[styleid]) {
$stylesel='selected';
} else {
$stylesel='';
}
eval("\$dropdownbits .= \"".gettemplate('forumhome_dropdownbit')."\";") ;
}
// style drop down box (by FireFly)

The EVAL line gives an error and in VB3 there is no line in the index.php that reads "// if user is know, then welcome" so I don't know where to place this script.. and infact.. get rid of the error.

HELP ME!

Aceman