help request for coloured usernames Hello, I hope I am posting in the correct forum. The situation: I got hands on a little mod which allows the users to set a custom colour for their usernames at login. This mode is working with Phorum 5.1 branch. Unfortunately the author is not known to me. The users would like to have this feature in the upgraded version of 5.2.19 as well. I am a bit at a loss here, as I have VERY little php knowlegde. I have managed to get the search function for 5.2 working but I am not able to get the statements following the search working. If there is someone willing and interested to help me, how would we go from here ? Help would be very appreciated. Thank you in advance. https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154451#msg-154451 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:19:54 -0500 Phorum 6.0.4 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154503#msg-154503 Re: help request for coloured usernames https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154503#msg-154503
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One thought: as the username is a link, is the custom_user_field overwritten with the link_color setting from the settings.tpl?

Or did I place it at the wrong spot, as all this is pretty new to me ?

Sorry for the delay. My community uses commercial/paid software now, but I keep coming back here because I had a strong attachment to Phorum. I would have to find the time to play with this myself to make sure I'm wrapping my head around it right and not overlooking anything either.

Yes, being a link, the link color will display. Perhaps try this instead....

[code="php"]
<div class="message-author icon-user">

<!-- Determine whether there is a custom color -->

{IF MESSAGES->user->color}
<BR> <FONT COLOR="{MESSAGES->user->color}"> {MESSAGES->author} </FONT>
{ELSE}
<BR> {MESSAGES->author}
{/IF}

<!-- Should we display a link to the user profile? -->

{IF MESSAGES->URL->PROFILE}
<BR> <small>[ <a href="{MESSAGES->URL->PROFILE}"> Profile </a> ]</small>
{/IF}

<!-- Should we display a link to directly private message the user? -->

{IF MESSAGES->URL->PM}
<BR> <small>[ <a href="{MESSAGES->URL->PM}">{LANG->PrivateReply}</a> ]</small>
{/IF}

</div>
[/code]

This way, the link color doesn't override the custom color, and a separate link to provided for the profile just like one for the private message. The <BR> tags are simple line breaks.]]> Robert Angle Phorum Hack/Mod Requests Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:22:41 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154480#msg-154480 Re: help request for coloured usernames https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154480#msg-154480 Steps I did.

Created the custom-user-field in the admin area, named color
Added the field to the register.tpl
changed the read.tpl and added the code from above around line 34. It looks like this 

<td width="100%">
                <div class="message-author icon-user">
                {IF MESSAGES->URL->PROFILE}<a href="{MESSAGES->URL->PROFILE}">{/IF}
		{IF MESSAGES->user->color}<FONT COLOR="{MESSAGES->user->color}"> {MESSAGES->author} </FONT>
                     {ELSE}{MESSAGES->author}{/IF}{IF MESSAGES->URL->PROFILE}</a>{/IF}
                            {IF MESSAGES->URL->PM}<small>[ <a href="{MESSAGES->URL->PM}">{LANG->PrivateReply}</a> ]</small>{/IF}
                        </div>

After this I created a new user and a new post.

One thought: as the username is a link, is the custom_user_field overwritten with the link_color setting from the settings.tpl?

Or did I place it at the wrong spot, as all this is pretty new to me ?]]> gelbeseiten Phorum Hack/Mod Requests Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:06:45 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154479#msg-154479 Re: help request for coloured usernames https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154479#msg-154479 Skinny Phorum Hack/Mod Requests Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:34:35 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154478#msg-154478 Re: help request for coloured usernames https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154478#msg-154478
One question, Robert

in the first code sample the "Color?:" for what stands this ?

Could you explain it to me ?
Thank you.]]> gelbeseiten Phorum Hack/Mod Requests Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:25:19 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154465#msg-154465 Re: help request for coloured usernames https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154465#msg-154465
[code="php"]
Color?: <input type="text" name="color" size="30" value="" />
[/code]

... and then on the read.tpl add this....

[code="php"]
{IF MESSAGES->user->color}
<FONT COLOR={MESSAGES->user->color}> {MESSAGES->author} </FONT>
{ELSE}
{MESSAGES->author}
{/IF}
[/code]]]> Robert Angle Phorum Hack/Mod Requests Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:29:54 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154451#msg-154451 help request for coloured usernames https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?20,154451,154451#msg-154451
I hope I am posting in the correct forum.
The situation:
I got hands on a little mod which allows the users to set a custom colour for their usernames at login. This mode is working with Phorum 5.1 branch. Unfortunately the author is not known to me.

The users would like to have this feature in the upgraded version of 5.2.19 as well. I am a bit at a loss here, as I have VERY little php knowlegde. I have managed to get the search function for 5.2 working but I am not able to get the statements following the search working.

If there is someone willing and interested to help me, how would we go from here ?

Help would be very appreciated. Thank you in advance.]]> gelbeseiten Phorum Hack/Mod Requests Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:59:20 -0500