Invisible Style, But Still Active

[L9IAnime]

Damn, this looks so much like my previous thread its scary....

Basically when the style changer is listing the styles available, i want it to skip a certain style, but i still want the style to be able to be used by everyone... any ideas how this can be done??

[L9IAnime]

any ideas, any ideas at all???

[SCRIPT3R]

why would you want it invisible then?

[Paul M]

How would they choose it ?

[L9IAnime]

it is forcibly placed on the user in certain forums/cmps pages, i just dont want them to be able to select it elsewhere...

[SCRIPT3R]

just set the forum styles accordingly and then disable the option which lets users choose their own style.

[L9IAnime]

but i want them to be able to choose from the other styles outside of the area i want it to be locked in :S

[Paul M]

You can already force a style to be used in a forum, it's part of the forum settings, and that style does not need to be visible.

[josiespencer]

I sorta understand this need - I have a group of people attached to one usergroup. I would like that group of people to always be forced to use a certain style. And I don't want any of my other users to be able to pick this style.

It all has to do with creating a forum for a group of employees with different logos, etc. that only pertains to their usergroup. I want everyone else to not even know that this special group exists.

I've had a lot of suggestions, like modify the templates of all my styles which I do not want to do. My mind has been bouncing around all kinds of ideas but I just want a solution with minimal code impact.

[Paul M]

You can force a style on a particular usergroup (or groups) like this ;

Create a plugin and link it to the style_fetch hook.

Put this as the contents ;

PHP Code:

if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo,5,6,7)) // Usergroups //
{
    $userselect = 0;
    $styleid = 11; // Style id //
    $vbulletin->userinfo['styleid'] = $styleid;
    $vbulletin->options['styleid'] = $styleid;
} 


Edit the usergroups and styleid to suit.