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Can you show example implementation of this (the code I mean)?

@pieter,

This would I hope be handled through css in some aspect, however the admin would be able to set the css values. I guess the best way you could do it is a variable system. Set the variables up in the admin section, and have CSS call on the id_ of them?

@Trustmaster,

Here is a few code ways of doing it. In the admin panel, create a new field for each usergroup, name it something such as "usergroup_colors". Have a master field, which would be the default. So "usergroup_colors_default" and all other fields would be named "usergroup_colors_($usergroupname)"

In a post, you could then call on it with if/else commands.

if (user = usergroup) {
document.getElementById("[b]usernamecolor[/b]").style.selector =[b]hexvalue from admin panel[/b]
}
else
{
}

Of course the above is not actual viable working code. It was merely something to show, how you can do it.. in a way I suppose. This could actually be a very easy task, but you just have to add in everything to support it.

# Koradhil : I don't really get the point of this. Can't you just use this:

<span class="{USER_MAINGRP}">{USER_NAME}</span>

and in the CSS add a class for each maingroup? You could even use XTemplate IF/ELSE system with USER_LEVEL. We already have everything you need to implement this.

In general, I hate such fancy usernames, its a design killer. They should shoot everyone who even thinks of it. A fontsize+1 is okay, but colors...

@Koradhil,
What your describing is essentially core hacking by modifying the original file. I think it was more of talking about implimenting code to make it happen if the user wanted it. The idea behind usercolors makes it easier to understand. A good example would be if I wrote an article, and someone read it, unless that article states my flag of being a member, they don't know that an administrator, or developer wrote it. I am not talking about a design theory of changing the color from Black to Pink, but maybe a contrasting color which can be defined by the admin to match and aid in the color of the sites scheme.

No you cannot fully do this in all area's just with core features.

# esclkm : Why not?

Core hacking is needed for the following areas:
-Any Plugin that calls a username
-When users are linked via [uid]
-When an article is being viewed
-Downloads that are posted