New Posting Features - User selected default posting font and color

Hello,

This mod allows users to select their default posting font and color. You will have to select this at registration and can update it whenever you want in profile.

First you must make two new single selection menu user profile fields. Options for them are below.

Profile field one:

Title: Default Post Color

Description: What color your posts show up as?

Options:

Black
Blue
Green
Red
Pink
Orange
Purple

Set Default: Yes, but no first blank option

Display Order: Doesnt Matter

Field Requiried: Yes, at registration and profile updating

Field Editable by User: Yes

Private Field: No

Field Searchable on Members List: No

Show on Members List: No


Profile field two:

Title: Default Post Font

Description: What do you want your default post font to be?

Options:

Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Book Antiqua
Century Gothic
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Fixedsys
Franklin Gothic Medium
Garamond
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Console
Microsoft Sans Serif
Palatino Linotype
System
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Tribuchet MS
Verdana

Set Default: Yes, but no first blank option

Display Order: Doesnt Matter

Field Requiried: Yes, at registration and profile updating

Field Editable by User: Yes

Private Field: No

Field Searchable on Members List: No

Show on Members List: No

Now go to the user profile field manager, and jot down the two field numbers of the new fields listed on the right side of the two fields. Along with that, write down what number goes with what field. Please note this is not the display number, its the number next to it that says fieldX

Template Edits:

Go to your styles postbit/postbit legacy (whatever you use)

Find:

<!-- message -->

After Add:

<font COLOR="$post[fieldX]"><font face="$post[fieldX]">

Replace: The first red X with your default text color field number
The second red X with your default font field number.



Find:

<!-- / message -->

Add Above:

</font></font>

You are done, hope you like it!

[Breathex]

Originally Posted by fateL

Works good, thanks man. How would I make an option for bold, italic font too?

Yes, this is important.

[Theoldwiz]

Originally Posted by mblb

I could only get mine to work on postbit legacy.

Just edit the legacy template

[ShadowOne]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=167487&highlight=font+color" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...ght=font+color</a>

thats the one i posted for 3.6 which works for 3.7 as well with no bugs...

[Fırtına]

Teşekk?rler, Thanks

[SavvyPirates]

Thanks for the hack. I just installed this (on 3.7.0 Gold) and it works great.

Originally Posted by Theoldwiz

I didnt add size because I dont know why anyone would want every one of their posts to be the same size (except if its just the default size of 2)

I found a reason...some of the fonts (such as Garamond) at their default size are much smaller that what we are ued to with the Verdana default. Increasing the size is necessary to help people be able to read your post without a magnifying glass.

It appears that we can allow a default size to be selected by using the same method as you used for the font and color. Just need a third new profile field and a third font tag in the postbit.

[FLMom]

Before I start messing around with this, it is possible for a user to use Bold, Italics or Underline if they want too? I would also like to see a size option. It would come in handy for those on my site with poorer vision

Thanks!

[Hams]

Thanx..

[ahayat]

nice hack , thanks. clicked at install and nomiated.

here it is some spell mistake in font list please Edit it, i have seen over many places,they just copy the same.

it is "Trebuchet MS" instead Tribuchet MS

Finally, i want to see in Quoted box same font as well,because someone does Quote you it does not show the same font we selected .

Can you find it please?

Cheers

[nymyth]

cant get this to work....the font never changes....

Peace

[WDZaphod]

Simple and VERY useful!

Thanks!!