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UKBL ~ Choose Multiple Forum Colors - like VB.Org


With recent requests to do something similar to VB.org without all the complications of seperate CCS scripts and pages, Now you'll be able to change your forums color, Just like VB.org This hack will show you how to make and customise your own forum styles - Great Fun




PLEASE NOTE, The demo Screenshots are not the Colors you will be getting They are just quick examples i made to show different colors. The Colours are custom made by you when you Edit the CSS in your Styles template folder

Lets get Started

First you will need to decide how many colors you want, For example we'll chose just 4, but you can have as many or as little as you want.

Then decide which forum style you want to use to offer your color changes, I've used just the VB default style for this example.

So here we go..........

1. Go to your Admin CP and select Style Manager

2. Click the Link at the bottom - Add New Style

3. Parent Style - Select the Style that you want to offer Color Changes on, Normally this would be your chosen default style, and name it Default - Green Allow User selection - Yes Display order - 20 Then Save

4. You will see that you've created a copy of your default style called default green. Now we'll need to play with our Colors

5. On your defalt Green style click on All Style Options and GO, scroll down untill you come to the Body CSS

Then basically you need to work your way down this changing Background Colors, font colors etc,, If you click on one of the colored squares you will bring up a selector of colors which can let you chose the color you want without having to know Hex color numbers.

Trust me, I've not done this before and already within minutes i was making different forum styles, It really is that simple, The key word here is experiment You'll love it

To see your changes save and then click on the Forum Home Page link at the top right of your screen.

So basically thats what we need to do to make our different color Styles, Do a new Default Style for each color you want.

Color Squares

Next we'll need our color Squares









Just make your own in the color which best represents your Style and save to your forums /images/misc folder To fit nicely in the bottom navbar, I made mine 13 x 13 pixels and made them in paint.net, You can use photoshop or even windows paint

Half way there

Now comes the Fun Part

We need to Make our Color Squares Clickable so for that we'll have to edit a bit of code.

Open Notepad or a similar Text editor and add the following Code

Code:
<a href="link.com"><img src="picture.jpg"></a>
Now we will need to add our url of our style to the Front of that code like this

Code:
<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="picture.jpg"></a>
You can find out which Style id you need in the Style Manager in your AdminCP, Next we add the url of our color square.

If you already havn't done so, Upload your Color squares to your forums image/misc folder and use the full url to link to that in the code, so now our code will be like this

Code:
<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a>
Then we add a spacer Code to the end of our coded like this &nbsp;


Code:
<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a> &nbsp;
Thats it, Then you do that with all the colors and save them one after the other, so you end up with one long line of code

Code:
   <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=6"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/red.png"></a>&nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=7"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/blue.png"></a>&nbsp;
Thats the code done, Now to add a few words to the Front of it

Code:
 Choose Your Color &nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=6"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/red.png"></a>&nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=7"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/blue.png"></a>&nbsp;
Remember to add a unedited Link back to your normal Style so members can keep using the original, You can use a white color square for this.

and thats it :up: save your work

Next we'll need to upload the code to our footer template of our Parent Style

Go to Default (Parent) style in the Admin CP and select All style Options > Edit Templates > Footer
and then find

Code:
<strong>
and below it add your code, Then save.

You'll see that it will copy to all the child styles automatically

You should get something along the lines of this









Thats all folks

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Hi. I still have some Probs. I added my Styles i want to use as u can see in the Picture


I have added this code in the footer of the Main Style - http://test.brainlag.eu/forums.php?styleid=39



Still have probs with showing the squares (just using 4 atm to test it).

Another question i have is if i have to add the Code to all my styles?
btw.. I just want to use the Evo Styles. Thanks for helping me.
When you see the red cross That means that the url of where you have your color square is broken, you need to get the right url in the code.

Also if you add border=0 to the end of the graphic link, it will install your color square without the Purple link surrounding it

like this
Code:
www.yourforum/forum/images/misc/blue.png" border="0"
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Thanks. I dont get the prob with the squares but i am on it...

U wrote to give the copied Style the number 20? What a bout the next added styles? not number 20?

And do i have to add the Code for the Colorchoose to every style?

Thank u
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Thanks. I dont get the prob with the squares but i am on it...

U wrote to give the copied Style the number 20? What a bout the next added styles? not number 20?

And do i have to add the Code for the Colorchoose to every style?

Thank u
The Links to your Styles are shown like the example below

Code:
http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=10
Thats an example from my forum, if you go to your ADMIN CP and go to your Style Manager you will see all your available styles, clicking on those style will take you to your forum in the style you've chosen, Look at the url and you should see one similar to the example above.

I've only given an example styleid, as invidivual forums will differ

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Ok so far.. but what about the code? seems i have to add this to every footer Template? Thanks
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I've followed your directions and everything works as it should :up:

Now, how can I remove the drop down style selector without disabling user selection? If I were to disable user selection it would disable their being able to set it in their user options.

I want to put your mod in place of the drop menu. (same place)

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Note:
I skipped the first part of your instructions as I am using the multiple colored styles offered by Sofia's "CA Evo 3.8.3 - 25 colors" styles.

Again, this mod is so simple to implement, even I could do it Trust me, that's saying a lot for your instructions.
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Ok so far.. but what about the code? seems i have to add this to every footer Template? Thanks
Yes to every style or color that you have included
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I've followed your directions and everything works as it should :up:

Now, how can I remove the drop down style selector without disabling user selection? If I were to disable user selection it would disable their being able to set it in their user options.

I want to put your mod in place of the drop menu. (same place)

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Note:
I skipped the first part of your instructions as I am using the multiple colored styles offered by Sofia's "CA Evo 3.8.3 - 25 colors" styles.

Again, this mod is so simple to implement, even I could do it Trust me, that's saying a lot for your instructions.
Hi Gary

I think But not 100% sure you can remove the style drop menu from the admin cp (general options??) But i'm not 100% sure and not totally sure if it would effect this mod or not, Perhaps you could let us know

Thanks Buddy

BTW, Sofia is a Very Talented Designer, I have a lot of respect for her work, those evo styles are just wicked
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Thanks Gerry
I'm a grumpy old kind of guy and usually ask myself why others do what I just did. Asking questions for support of something that isn't related to the actual mod. Sorry about that.

I'm going to dive into the code after I back everything up. I'll post positive results with a link to my site and any helpful code examples.
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Thanks Gerry
I'm a grumpy old kind of guy and usually ask myself why others do what I just did. Asking questions for support of something that isn't related to the actual mod. Sorry about that.

I'm going to dive into the code after I back everything up. I'll post positive results with a link to my site and any helpful code examples.
Hey Buddy, I'm grumpy too, so thats cool

see how you get on mate, i'm always here to help
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This is what I came up with.... looks and works GREAT!

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