Automatic Post Coloring

This is a simple little hack taht allows users to specify a color by name or hex code in theor profile.

If they do (we'll use limegreen as the color they chose for examples) then all their posts from that point on will have
[color=limegreen ] and [/color ] surrounding them.

It does not retroactively affect previous posts. Only new ones.
If they post as limegreen for a day, then change to red, all their limegreen posts stay that way.

The hack involves adding 3 lines of code to 2 different files (same 3 lines for both files) and creating a Custom Profile field.

[Diva]

Originally posted by [D]Vincent
You're suppose to put it in Admin CP > Templates > Modify > Style that you want to modify > Postbit Templates > postbit and then find the $post[message] and do as he said.

Let's try this one more time. :tired:

Now add
$color_on and $color_off around $post[message] and it'll work.

Around meaning:
1. Somewhere around the line [above or below it]

or

2. Literally within that line:

<p><normalfont color="$post[field5]">$color_on $post[message] $color_off</normalfont></p>

Keep in mind that I do not do hacks, just follow the instructions and enjoy the results.

[Austin Dea]

It should be just

<p><normalfont>$color_on$post[message]$color_off</normalfont></p>

if you used that code hack from KuraFire. Be sure to change the X in 'fieldX' to the field number you created.

[Diva]

thank you!

[Darth Cow]

Thanks... I guess . Some of my users have been doing this thing on their own for while manually, and it does get a bit annoying, so they've been bugging me for this for a while. Of course, I have better things to spend my programing time on than adding useless tasteless features, those I suppose there isn't any additional harm. I might have actually done it on my own, but I didn't realize how easy adding an optional profile field like this is .

EDIT: Actually, I'd like to humbly recommend a slight change in this script, adding the code before the following instead where it was previously:

PHP Code:

    $subject=censortext($subject);
    $message=censortext($message); 


That will insure that someone can't just make their color "black[/font]" and procede to add whatever cuss words they feel like .