Nick color lavalair script

[SolidSnake]

Hello friends, first sorry for the
bad english, but I am from
Brazil and I do not speak
English very well. What
prompted me to come to this
forum, is that I am creating a
wap site lavalair style, but do
not know how to differentiate
the color of nicknames of the
users, wanted to differentiate,
admin, moderator, male, female
by the color of the nick. Would
you like an orientation, thanks
to all.

[i0nutzxp]

list($name,$perm,sex) = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT name,  perm, sex FROM ibwf_users WHERE id='".getuid_sid($sid)."'"));
if($sex == "F"){
if($perm == 4)
  $color = "pink";
else if($perm == 3)
  $color = "red";
else .....
}else{
if($perm == 4)
  $color = "blue";
else if($perm == 3)
  $color = "black";
else .....
}
$name = "<font color=\"$color\">$name</font>"; 

something like that ...u can extend ...

[reymon07]

funny it is for n0ob c0ders lol..

[warchief]

Like u reymon07? I have diffrent one.. Users can costumize their nick color just like changing email, location, shout out, etc.. But nick color will appear as Default .a link color when it is not set/costumized, not like other site that nick color will appear as BLACK if not set. Because <font color="(blank)">nick</font> will appear as black right?

[subzero]

code like this

SUBZERO

I can do this but i do say going to be long code and costly

[warchief]

subzero alweiz want money as payment for a little easy code.. Haha

[convictor]

I don't see any problem with coders asking compensation for ANY coding, because stuff that they share for free, are usually made like someone else did the coding

[i0nutzxp]

<?PHP

$n = 'Test';
$new = '';
$i = 0;
$colors = array('red','blue','pink','purple','orange'); // '','','' ....
$len = strlen($n);
while($i<=$len-1){
$new .= '<font color="'.$colors[$i].'">'.$n[$i].'</font>';
$i++;
}
echo $new;

?>

2 minutes ... and in array put a no. of colors eq with the max name range:P

later edit for randomize the colors use shuffle($colors); before while loop

[frostymarvelous]

<font> tag? Seriously?
Btw you need to factor that database storage of specific user color choices and also edit your entire code to display colored usernames wherever usernames appear.

[i0nutzxp]

For the lava use this.
add a new varchar line named colcode in ibwf_users :P

$uid = getuid_sid($sid);
list($nick) = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT name FROM ibwf_users WHERE id='".$uid."'"));
$i = 0;
$len = strlen($nick);
echo "<form action=\"set_col.php?action=colproc&amp;sid=$sid\" method=\"post\">";
echo "<small>Make ur nick multicolored</small><br/>";
while($i<=$len-1){
echo "Word #".($i+1)." <input name=\"w$i\" maxlength=\"100\" size=\"3\"/><br/>";
$i++;
}
echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"/>";
echo "</form>"; 

list($nick) = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT name FROM ibwf_users WHERE id='".$uid."'"));
$i = 0;
$len = strlen($nick);
$msg = '';
while($i<=$len-1){
$msg .= ''.$_POST['w'.$i].'-';
$i++;
}
$msg .= '1';
$res = mysql_query("UPDATE ibwf_users SET colcode='".mysql_real_escape_string($msg)."' WHERE id='".$uid."'");
if($res) echo " that\'s so good.."; 

and for core ..

function getnick_uid($uid)
{
  $q = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT name, colcode FROM ibwf_users WHERE id='".$uid."'"));
  return colorize($q['name'],$q['colcode']);
}
function colorize($n,$code){
$new = '';
$i = 0;
$colors = explode('-',$code);
$len = strlen($n);
#shuffle($colors);
while($i<=$len-1){
$new .= '<font color="'.$colors[$i].'">'.$n[$i].'</font>';
$i++;
}
return $new;
} 

PS: make urself the code valid for xhtml validation...
PS2: restrict user max len to max 10 chars ...

[i0nutzxp]

colcode varchar(60) NULL
//
and in action where u change the nick add mysql_query("UPDATE ibwf_users SET colcode='' WHERE id='".$who."'); :P

[frostymarvelous]

username_color function

The scripts above have one flaw. either username or colors list must be limited.
this is not successful in all cases and might cause problems.
This function should be a panacea to all the problems.
if you notice any bugs or errors, please post it.

<?php
//list($usercolors)= fetch from the database table
//we assume user is allowed to add colors in to the database separated by commas
//this can be any method that allows us to put it into an array
//it can even be a serialized array put into the db

$usercolors= "red,blue,yellow,green,violet,lime";//assumed selection of course
$username="frostymarvelous";//obviously, this should be db retrieval or other convenient method

$colors= explode(",",$usercolors);//put colors into an array

username_colors($username, $colors);

//so this funtion takes the username and array of colours and return a coloured username

function username_colors($username, $colors)//username is a string. colors is an array
{
$unlen= strlen($username);
$colsize= count($colors);

if ($unlen < $colsize)//this is to make sure that the colors are not more than the username chars
{
$diff= $colsize- $unlen;//find the difference between the two

while($diff != 0)
{
unset($colors[$diff]);//remove excess values
$diff --;
}
$colsize= count($colors);
}

$interval= ceil($unlen / $colsize);//this will allow us to make sure all chars have colours

$start = 0;
$newusername= "";

foreach($colors as $k => $v)//go through all colours
{
$next= $start + $interval;
$section = substr($username, $start, $interval);//get sections of username to colour

$newusername .=  "<span style=\"color:$v;\">$section</span>";//replace with colours

$start  += $interval;
}

echo $newusername;//do something with result. echo, return or whatever you wish
}
?>