Colorize Administrators and Moderators Usernames in Topic

[pentapenguin]

Hello.
If you like the phpBB3 way administrators' and moderators' usernames are colored when viewing a post (viewtopic.php), you can get this same effect too in phpBB2 with this very simple MOD, the Aphrodite style, and the eXtreme Styles MOD. With this MOD, admins and mods names will be red and green respectively in the posts and other users' usernames will be the normal link color. This will only take about 2 minutes to install. Please be sure to keep a backup just in case.
Enjoy!

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viewtopic.php


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$sql = "SELECT u.username, u.user_id,


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u.user_id,


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u.user_level,


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      'POSTER_NAME' => $poster,


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      'USER_LEVEL' => $postrow[$i]['user_level'],


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templates/ca_aphrodite/xs/xs_topic.tpl


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   if(!empty($postrow_item['PROFILE']) && strpos($postrow_item['POSTER_NAME'], '<') === false)
   {


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      $user_style = ( $postrow_item['USER_LEVEL'] == ADMIN ) ? ' style="color: #' . $theme['fontcolor3'] . '"' : ( ( $postrow_item['USER_LEVEL'] == MOD ) ? ' style="color: #' . $theme['fontcolor2'] . '"' : '' );


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      $replace = array($postrow_item['POSTER_NAME'], '<a class="post-name" ');


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      $replace = array($postrow_item['POSTER_NAME'], "<a class=\"post-name\"$user_style ");


BTW: if anyone needs it, I can try making instructions for the memberlist and view profile too.

[ewelin]

Here is a mod that is very similar to that. It's called Advanced Username Color and allows you to make additional color groups and those colors appear whenever the user name appears basically.... i did have to tweak it a little for my needs but works pretty well... might be a good reference for what you're doing

[whatusername]

[quote user="pentapenguin" post="40176"]BTW: if anyone needs it, I can try making instructions for the memberlist and view profile too.[/quote]

Of course we would like the instructions for those pages .

[pentapenguin]

ewelin, this isn't a replacement for a real color groups MOD--just a "fix" for existing phpBB installs who like me don't need a big color groups MOD.

whatusername, I'll see about getting that done soon.

[ewelin]

ahhh gotcha... even still you could refernce it for your steps on editing the veiw profile and memberlist

[pentapenguin]

I'll see if I can get to it this weekend--schedule's pretty full though.

[llj143]

hey nice work just use it.. and works nice..

please if you have time, hope you can work also for view profile, memberlist, and viewforum

[kvfb97]

This will add it to the memberlist page

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memberlist.php

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#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------ 
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$sql = "SELECT username, user_id,

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#-----[ IN-LINE FIND ]------------------------------------------ 
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user_id,

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#-----[ IN-LINE AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------ 
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user_level,

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      $username = $row['username'];

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#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------ 
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      $user_level = $row['user_level'];
      $user_style = ( $user_level == ADMIN ) ? '<span style="color: #' . $theme['fontcolor3'] . '">' : ( ( $user_level == MOD ) ? '<span style="color: #' . $theme['fontcolor2'] . '">' : '<span>' );
      
      $username = $user_style.$row['username'].'</span>';