Background Image/Color Changer

[- = Orfeo = -]

When I said about helping I always mean in public where the same advice may help someone else.

First of all, figure out exactly how you want it to work. Then we need to look at your theme and work out what needs to be changed over time, and whether you need to get the designer to make you new images. (Unfortunately, no, it's not as simple as just changing a few numbers)

Mmm.... i need only change the body values:

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body
{
background:

Or the class:

body
{
   background:...}

body2
{
   background:}

   
depending on the time:

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date('H', forum_time())

[Arantor]

How often? Every hour? Every 2 hours?

As for the background, that is literally the area outside the forum. It depends VERY much on your theme which is why I would need to know what theme you're using or even to see your site to tell whether that would actually be very effective or not.

On this forum, changing that value would have NO effect at all, since the body background is that gradient.

[- = Orfeo = -]

How often? Every hour? Every 2 hours?

As for the background, that is literally the area outside the forum. It depends VERY much on your theme which is why I would need to know what theme you're using or even to see your site to tell whether that would actually be very effective or not.

On this forum, changing that value would have NO effect at all, since the body background is that gradient.

Hahaha! no! 

I like 6 changes (every 4 hours), i have SMF 1.1.10 and Default Theme without modifications.

i need the modifications at least,    i usually alter mods,    
I thought something like that (Greeting Time Mod - load.php):

   

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// Load a custom greeting
function loadGreeting()
{
global $context, $txt, $modSettings;


$date = date('H', forum_time());

if ($date < 6)
   $greeting = !empty($modSettings['cgdt_message1']) ? $modSettings['cgdt_message1'] : $txt['up_late_arent_we'];
elseif ($date < 7)
    $greeting = !empty($modSettings['cgdt_message2']) ? $modSettings['cgdt_message2'] : $txt['are_you_the_early_bird'];
elseif ($date < 12)
   $greeting = !empty($modSettings['cgdt_message3']) ? $modSettings['cgdt_message3'] : $txt['good_morning'];
elseif ($date < 18)
   $greeting = !empty($modSettings['cgdt_message4']) ? $modSettings['cgdt_message4'] : $txt['good_afternoon'];
elseif ($date < 22)
   $greeting = !empty($modSettings['cgdt_message5']) ? $modSettings['cgdt_message5'] : $txt['good_evening'];
elseif ($date < 24)
   $greeting = !empty($modSettings['cgdt_message6']) ? $modSettings['cgdt_message6'] : $txt['shouldnt_you_be_going_to_bed_soon'];

But with the body 

[Arantor]

Well, like I said I need to know the forum theme before I can begin to suggest how to do this.

[- = Orfeo = -]

Well, like I said I need to know the forum theme before I can begin to suggest how to do this.

Is a Default Theme   

[Arantor]

So you want it to do purely the background and not any of the areas on it? Note that this could make the linktree hard to read if not careful.

[Yahmez]

Thank you for explaining publicly Arantor.

*Yahmez watches with interest

[- = Orfeo = -]

So you want it to do purely the background and not any of the areas on it? Note that this could make the linktree hard to read if not careful.

Yes! May be the #userarea, #news, windowbg and windowbg2, the color in all (black to white), but I think this last I can do 

[Arantor]

windowbg and windowbg2 use images, by the way... as does #news and possibly #userarea (I don't get into the theme that much to be honest)

[- = Orfeo = -]

windowbg and windowbg2 use images, by the way... as does #news and possibly #userarea (I don't get into the theme that much to be honest)

   
I plan on making in a future a transparent background which includes the # userarea, without images (these are the user data on top).

Windowbg and windowbg2 colors are the tables text, for this i wish to change the colours 

[Arantor]

If you make them fully transparent, you get just an outline and inherit the background colour.

And technically, windowbg and windowbg2 styles cover both the foreground text colour and background image for many, many things across the forum.

[- = Orfeo = -]

In windowbg and windowbg2 the background should be transparent, while the colors are solids (this way are the background are transparent, while the text have the solid color).

I don't like use the opacity, only this features (background-color and color) for css 

[- = Orfeo = -]

In windowbg and windowbg2 the background should be transparent, while the colors are solids (this way are the background are transparent, while the text have the solid color).

I don't like use the opacity, only this features (background-color and color) for css 

I know that the secret it's on (ex.):

index.template.php

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<body class="body2">

in css

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body{blablabla}

.body2 {blablabla}

and

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$date = date('H', forum_time());

But i don't know how ranged the class 

[qubbah]

very good request..

[Arantor]

But i don't know how ranged the class 

Don't change the class, it isn't necessary.

Put loadTimeColor() in the same place in index.php where that mod adds loadGreeting(), then have the following in Load.php or Subs.php (doesn't really matter much)

You can remove all the stuff starting with // (as these are just comments) and change the colours to suit. NB not tested.

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function loadTimeColor() {
  global $context;
  if(empty($context['html_headers']))
    $context['html_headers'] = "";

  $hour_block = round(date('H', forum_time()) / 4);
  switch($hour_block) {
    case 0: // 00:00 and 24:00 should have the same colour since they're the same time
    case 6:
      $color = '#000000'; // black for midnight
      break;
    case 1:
      $color = '#008080'; // medium blue for sunrise
      break;
    case 2:
      $color = '#00ffff'; // bright blue for morning sun
      break;
    case 3:
      $color = '#ffff00'; // bright yellow for midday sun
      break;
    case 4:
      $color = '#a05000'; // orange for evening
      break;
    case 5:
      $color = '#603000'; // brown for setting sun
      break;
  }
  $context['html_headers'] .= '<style type="text/css">body { background-color:' . $color . '; }</style>';
  // this should work because an inline style is supposed to override one from a style sheet
}

[qubbah]

Put loadTimeColor() in the same place in index.php where that mod adds loadGreeting(), then have the following in Load.php or Subs.php (doesn't really matter much)

You can remove all the stuff starting with // (as these are just comments) and change the colours to suit. NB not tested.

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function loadTimeColor() {
  global $context;
  if(empty($context['html_headers']))
    $context['html_headers'] = "";

  $hour_block = round(date('H', forum_time()) / 4);
  switch($hour_block) {
    case 0: // 00:00 and 24:00 should have the same colour since they're the same time
    case 6:
      $color = '#000000'; // black for midnight
      break;
    case 1:
      $color = '#008080'; // medium blue for sunrise
      break;
    case 2:
      $color = '#00ffff'; // bright blue for morning sun
      break;
    case 3:
      $color = '#ffff00'; // bright yellow for midday sun
      break;
    case 4:
      $color = '#a05000'; // orange for evening
      break;
    case 5:
      $color = '#603000'; // brown for setting sun
      break;
  }
  $context['html_headers'] .= '<style type="text/css">body { background-color:' . $color . '; }</style>';
  // this should work because an inline style is supposed to override one from a style sheet
}

it this onle we must change/add?

[Arantor]

If you make both the edits I mention there, yes that should be enough.

[qubbah]

very very niceeee.. hehe.. so good..

but can we change it every minutes?

[Arantor]

Depends. Sure the code can be rewritten to do that but is set to every 4 hours in the above.

[qubbah]

Depends. Sure the code can be rewritten to do that but is set to every 4 hours in the above.

nice to hear... will wait for that.. tq