By roleychiu on

I'd like to be able to change the background color for comments posted by certain user roles. i.e: if a moderator makes a comment on a node, the CSS of the comment background would change appropriately. How do i access the User's Role variable and where do i place the code that calls the appropriate CSS style?

So far i have found a snippet that displays the user's role, but this seems to only work in the User Profile page and requires

<?php if (in_array('Girl Next Door',$user->roles)) {
print "Rollsonline Official Girl Next Door";
}
?>

Apparently this snippet requires the following to work as well<?php global $user; ?>

any hints as to how I can be able to show a different comment background color as per user role?

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roleychiu commented

to clarify: i'd like to change the comment background color based on the AUTHOR'S role. If the author is of a specific role, then display his or her comment background differently than the other comments in the node.

- Roley Chiu
www.rollsonline.com

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mlncn commented

Does anyone know an answer to this good question? There should be an easy way to display comments differently by user role... if not, I'll go looking for a hard way.

~ben

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sepeck commented

I believe the Zen theme has an example of this. It's certainly possible.

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mlncn commented

I'm actually basing off the Zen theme. (Although, pretty hacked up now)

I've got comment.tpl.php, and there's an $author variable, but reverse-engineering that to get the uid hardly makes any sense.

Aha... the $comment object variable is a wealth of (undocumented?) information:

[cid] => 1
[pid] => 0
[nid] => 1
[subject] => Comment Subject
[comment] => Comment text.
[format] => 1
[timestamp] => 1177539594
[name] => username
[mail] =>
[homepage] =>
[uid] => 1
[registered_name] => username
[picture] =>
[data] => a:0:{}
[score] => 0
[users] => a:1:{i:0;i:0;}
[thread] => 01/
[status] => 0
[depth] => 0
[new] => 0

As far as I can tell these are default variables, not added specially by Zen's template.php. Zen's template.php does have a good example of adding a class to a comment based on user ID (in this case, if a comment's uid is the same as the node's uid).

If anyone needs help beyond this, Agaric can certainly report back further.

~ben

Agaric Design Collective :: http://AgaricDesign.com/ :: Open Source Web Development

benjamin, Agaric

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FableForge commented

I added the following lines to comment.tpl.php right after "print $submitted", for my particular theme:

$poster = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid));
$commentorRoles=(implode(", ", $poster->roles));
$commentorRoles = str_replace('authenticated user', 'Member', $commentorRoles);
print $commentorRoles;

It doesnt exactly change the background color, but I'm sure you could play with html or CSS to achieve that. Good luck!