Member Colors

[roach6390]

Hi, I was going to code this myself, but I am not yet familiar enough with SMF.

I want to have it so my users on my forum can chose the color that they want their username to show up in.

The idea is very simple:
           TO DISPLAY:
- check if user wants to see the colors via SQL table
- find member number
- from member number, search SQL table to color referring to member number
- use HTML, probably <SPAN> to change color
           TO SET:
- have a field in the user profile editing for a user to enter a hex color
- on submit, it will send the color to the SQL table with the info of memnber number and color
- same thing for the option to view colors or not

Any help?

EDIT: I'm going to try and tackle this myself, but if you want to add some pointers, please do. 

[TaGBaN]

Im not sure entirely what you plan to do... But SMF already offers membergroup colors, and there are mods to display these colors via either memberlists, posts, or other places.

[roach6390]

Yes, membergroup colors, but I want an option for ever single person, even int he same membergroup to chose their personal color. I already have a temporary solution, but it will convert every link containing a user's name into that color

Here is a temporary fix:

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function ColourName(username,colour,method) {var iLink = document.getElementsByTagName("a");for (a=0; a<iLink.length; a++) {switch (method) {
case "num":
if (iLink[a].href.match(new RegExp('showuser=' + username,'i'))) {iLink[a].style.color = colour;}break;
case "name":
if (iLink[a].innerHTML.toString().match(new RegExp(username,'i'))) {iLink[a].style.color = colour;}break;}}}

Use as such:

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ColourName("Username","Color","name");

The last parameter is telling it to get it by name. You can also use "num".


EDIT:::::
Nevermind, I managed to make the system myself  I'd submit it as a mod, but it's so intertwined with my forum, I can't really pull it out.