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Group member colours

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:38 am
by wideboydave
Hi there, I am fairly new to php (extremely new, I only got Dreamweaver two weeks ago to start playing with our website!).

I have done a search but I couldn't find what I was after, so I decided to post... I hope I've posted in the right area!

I got asked a question about whether you could make the names of forum members appear as different colours of styles depending on which group they were a member of. (This would apply to the name as it appears on the left column next to the post.

Our site http://www.timbermtb.org/forum would be hierachical too:

Board members (ppl on the board)- access to all forums
Trail building members (ppl on the trail building team) - access to all but board's forum
Paid-up members (ppl who have paid their annual subscription) - access to Members' forum
Members (ppl can post in General forums)
General public (ppl can view General forums)

I am on the board, so I would be say wideboydave

a paid-up member would be say wideboydave

someone just joined who hasn't paid a subscription would be say wideboydave

How would you go about doing this? Is it a feature that can be added in the control panel for the forum under the Groups heading?

Thanks a lot.

Re: Group member colours

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:00 am
by McInfo
I'm not sure about phpBB2, but in phpBB3,
  1. Go into "Administration Control Panel".
  2. Click the "Users and Groups" tab.
  3. Under the "Groups" menu heading, click the "Manage Groups" link.
  4. Locate a group (for example, "Administrators") and click the "Settings" link next to the group name.
  5. In the "Group wide settings" section, find the "Group colour" option.
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Re: Group member colours

Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:45 am
by wideboydave
Thanks a lot, that's saved me from going mad! :D

Yeah, that option isn't available in version 2... I'll need to upgrade the system!

I am about to look into it, but I presume that if I upgrade, it won't overwrite any of the posts, just the format and layout?

Re: Group member colours

Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:10 am
by McInfo
The phpBB documentation has a section dealing with upgrading from version 2.0 to 3.0.

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