Display custom titles AND standard titles in posts

This is a small hack that I wrote several months ago. Originally it was only a template mod, then turned into a hack but remained in the template mods forum at vbulletin.com, so it never made it over here.

Basically, all it does is show both a custom title, selected by the user, and the user's standard title (Junior Member, Member, Moderator, etc.) in posts. It uses a custom profile field that you create through the admin cp to store the custom title.

As I said, it's an older hack by me, and was originally tested on 2.0.3. It still works for me on 2.2.2, though.

[importmix]

Yeah, I just want my moderators to be able to do this. Not my regular users.

[Mr. X]

Excellent hack, I installed it. I really needed something like this, but I have a question: How can I make it so that all custom titles are in a different color? Im playing around with some code:

PHP Code:

<normalfont><b>$post[username]</b></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$extratitle</smallfont>
<smallfont>$post[usertitle]</smallfont><br> 


note -I put the custom titles on the bottom.

[JJR512]

To change the color of only the custom title, do this. In the bit of code you add to functions.php, there is this line:

PHP Code:

$extratitle="$post[field5]<br>"; 


Change it to this:

PHP Code:

$extratitle="<font color=\"#FFFFFF\">$post[field5]</font><br>"; 


Of course, replace #FFFFFF with whatever color you want, using either the HTML #xxxxxx color codes, or an accepted named color.

[Mr. X]

awesome. Worked like a charm. I was applying color code to the template and it changed all the little text in the user pane (which looked sorta kinda almost maybe cool). Thanks again!

[Mr. X]

ooh ooh, just one more tiny thing: Is it possible to put "" around all custom titles automatically?

[JJR512]

Yeah, in the same line, change $post[field5] to \"$post[field5]\"

[Mr. X]

you are the man.

[Chris M]

How would I add a THIRD Title set?

Would I add :

PHP Code:

        if ($post[field9]) {
            $extratitle="$post[field9]<br>";
        } else {
            $extratitle="";
        } 


After

PHP Code:

if ($post[field7]) {
  if ($post[field8]) {
    $extratitle="<div style=\"width:100%; filter:glow(color=$post[field8], strength=3)\">$post[field7]</div>";
  } else {
    $extratitle="$post[field7]<br>";
  }
} else {
  $extratitle="";
} 


Also...When you have these added, can you have them so the user cannot edit them?

Satan

[Chris M]

I figured it out...

You add :

PHP Code:

        if ($post[field9]) {
            $extratitlea="$post[field9]<br>";
        } else {
            $extratitlea="";
        } 


After :

PHP Code:

if ($post[field5]) {
  if ($post[field6]) {
    $extratitle="<div style=\"width:100%; filter:glow(color=$post[field6], strength=3)\">$post[field5]</div>";
  } else {
    $extratitle="$post[field5]<br>";
  }
} else {
  $extratitle="";
} 


Then you add :

<smallfont>$extratitlea</smallfont>

to the Postbit template...

Satan

[Smoothie]

Custom titles are still there even after updating the counters.