What Styles are we All using

This is a small hack that will show each users current selected style in showthread. For a demo just follow one of my links in my forum (chins & quills) and find your way to a thread.

Open showthread.php and find:

attachment.attachmentid,attachment.filename,attachment.visible AS attachmentvisible,attachment.counter

add this after it on the same line

,style.title as styletitle

find this in showthread.php

LEFT JOIN user ON user.userid=post.userid

add this after it on the next line

LEFT JOIN style on (user.styleid = style.styleid)

open up the postbit template and place this where you like

Style: <a href='index.php?styleid=$post[styleid]'>$post[styletitle]</a></smallfont>

Link it to whatever you want.

[Sadie Frost]

Originally posted by LuBi
Got it, everyone needs to read carfefully. the shot part with commas has to be added to the end of the line you find. You do this twice. Then you find the other line in showthread twice and both times you add that text below it on the next line. I hope this helps.

Make sure you've made the changes to showthread.php twice - the same code appears twice in that file. So you're really making 4 changes to it, not 2 That's what I did wrong at first.

[Craig Antill]

This is how I have it...

However looking into this a bit further, the problem seems to lie with the fact that although the script will display in the alternative colour scheme by adding the ?styleid=xx to the URL, the style identifier in the users profile isn't updated ? Is this supposed to be this way or is there an error somewhere else ?

[Sadie Frost]

If I'm understanding what you're asking (newbie here lol), that is how it is supposed to be.

When you click on the link in the postbit, it changes your scheme, but in your profile it still says you're using your old style.

If you logout or clear your cookies, you go back the style you were originally using.

So I don't think that is the error.

If you want to post or attach your showthread, maybe a fresh pair of eyes will see what's wrong with it

[Craig Antill]

But when I go to my admin panel and manually change the style in my profile, then this is reflected in the postbit... so I presume this hack doesn't actually do what I thought it did and show which scheme the user is currently viewing the forums in ?

My bad luck, apologies for not understanding and wasting your time...

BTW, I don't think i'm allowed to post the file here anyway

[Sadie Frost]

Oh sorry, I didn't know

Yeah, it only shows which scheme is chosen in Edit Options, not if they're actually viewing a different one

[Shenlong]

not working, just displaying

Style:

any suggestions?

[tweak]

Finally got it to work... Thanx for the help

[Craig Antill]

Originally posted by Sadie Frost
Yeah, it only shows which scheme is chosen in Edit Options, not if they're actually viewing a different one

Bugger - no use to me then 'as is'

Any idea if it is possible to update the user's profile when they are linked to the forum in a way which tags a styleid=xx on it ? I'm sure there must be... seems pretty silly the way it is now!

[Shenlong]

Well can anyone help me?

[Sadie Frost]

if you want to email me your showthread.php, I'll see if I notice what's wrong. But it sounds like you didn't make all four changes to it.

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