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!

[teenhut]

Originally Posted by AuroraStorm

Question: What do you do when you want to revert back to the default color? For example, if a person uses the default color "black" and others are using a black skin, they won't be able to see the font color so if a person wants to use no color and make his account default to whatever font color, what do you select?

I hope I explained that right...

Keep a blank option on top. Like DEFAULT - no selection. Then the top one will be a blank. People can select the blank option and it reverts to default.

[AuroraStorm]

ah...I see...thank you...

[Greek76]

I did exactly the same thing for the font size which worked but the problem is everyone's size font changed with it. The style and color worked great.

[SnapOff Racing]

seen this asked many times with no answers...when's the bold feature going to be available

[Gosef]

thank you

[SPARKS MAN]

its very good i try it
but there is small side effect in it this when some one adding an URL
its applying style on it and make the URL big
specially when URL is very long and the font style chosen was big

regards
Eng. Ali Hashim

[Emmmmrz]

Is there any news about usergroup permissions? I would love to install this for my premium members...

[Lovinmysailor]

Nice hack!!




If you want font size you just make another profile field with the same options the OP posted.
after this
<font COLOR="$post[fieldX]"><font face="$post[fieldX]">

add this

<font size="$post[fieldX]"> be sure you write the correct field number in!!

[Manic Mechanic]

Originally Posted by Lovinmysailor

Nice hack!!




If you want font size you just make another profile field with the same options the OP posted.
after this
<font COLOR="$post[fieldX]"><font face="$post[fieldX]">

add this

<font size="$post[fieldX]"> be sure you write the correct field number in!!

Did the above modification and works great, thank you.

[Lovinmysailor]

No problem! I dont take credit for it! Just worked off the OP ideas!