Miscellaneous Hacks - Style Switcher like on vB.org

I've written a simple JS function that can be used if you want to implement a style selector like on vB.org (using colored icons instead of a dropdown).

Simply add this to vbulletin_global.js, or include it in your footer template:

function switch_style(F)
{
    E = "style";
    if(F == "")
    {
        return; 
    }
    var B=new String(window.location);
    var A=new String("");
    B=B.split("#");
    if(B[1])
    {
        A="#"+B[1]
    }
    B=B[0];
    if(B.indexOf(E+"id=")!=-1&&is_regexp)
    {
        var D=new RegExp(E+"id=\\d+&?");
        B=B.replace(D,"")
    }
    if(B.indexOf("?")==-1)
    {
        B+="?"
    }
    else
    {
        lastchar=B.substr(B.length-1);
        if(lastchar!="&"&&lastchar!="?")
        {
            B+="&"
        }
    }
    window.location=B+E+"id="+F+A
}

Then, you'd use something like this in your footer template:

<a onclick="switch_style('9');return false;" href="$vboptions[bburl]/index.php?styleid=9" rel="nofollow"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/redstyle.gif" alt="" title="Red Layout" border="0" width="13" height="13" class="inlineimg" /></a>

This will then switch your style to an ID of your choice (9 in the example above). You will have to have separate styles for each color you want to switch between.

Hope someone will find this useful! Enjoy!

[Silencer Groans]

thank

[Konstantinos]

and what happens with styles that are only viewable by admins ?

[Eduardo Leon]

you can give some screenshots ?

[MoMan]

Originally Posted by Konstantinos

and what happens with styles that are only viewable by admins ?

Nothing would happen- the style wouldn't be selected. You obviously don't want to be creating icons for styles that aren't public.

You can view a demo here on vB.org - just try the style switcher. My implementation is the same, except that it's JS-powered.

[8thos]

Gonna try this in vb4.1.4

[8thos]

Hmm. Doesn't work.

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

Hmm. Doesn't work.

I could've told you that

[8thos]

Originally Posted by HMBeaty

I could've told you that

LOL Is there one like this for vb4?

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

LOL Is there one like this for vb4?

I don't believe so.....not at the moment anyway.....