By NeoID on

Hi,

Is there a module or easy way to assign a color to a role/group/rank so that all members of that group or rank have a special colored username?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

No module that I know of, but you can do it pretty easily. Override the theme_username function in your template.php file and style however you wish.

NeoID’s picture

NeoID commented

That would mean I'll have to hardcode either the username or role to a specific color.. not a very good solution... :/

liliplanet’s picture

liliplanet commented

There is a new feature at http://drupal.org/project/realname where you can add an image to each role ..

see http://drupal.org/node/388928

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

I'm not sure I understand-- do you want the user to be able to change the color or something?

NeoID’s picture

NeoID commented

I want to be able to do the same as you can on every other modern forum; create a group, add members and (as an admin) give certain groups a special colored username...

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Maybe http://drupal.org/project/user_badges is close to what you want? Otherwise, I still think theme_username is the way to go-- you can put any php you want there, so you can assign classes based on user roles then style/color them in css any way you like. You can also limit it to forum posts or let it follow the user throughout the site.

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NeoID commented

I've figured out that the below code works, but I'm trying to clean it up a bit and add a switch/case in order to check for more user roles.
So... I want to check if the user role is Moderator and if yes add a div-wrapper "moderator-role", but if the role is for example "Event" it should add a div with a class called "event-role"...

Anyone who knows how to clean it up a bit, it looks really messy if I copy/paste it for every user-role I want to check...

<?php
 global $user;

  // Check to see if $user has the administrator role.
  if (in_array('Moderator', array_values($user->roles))) {
  
function phptemplate_username($object) {
  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
    // Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many tables.
    if (drupal_strlen($object->name) > 20) {
      $name = drupal_substr($object->name, 0, 15) .'...';
    }
    else {
      $name = $object->name;
    }
    if (user_access('access user profiles')) {
      $output = '<div class="moderator-role">' . l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('attributes' => array('title' => t('View user profile.')))) . '</div>';
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($name);

    }
  }
  return $output;
}
  
  }
?>
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NeoID commented

I found a nice way to do this, however, instead of printing the role for the user currently logged in, how can I modify it in order to affect the current member (in the theme_username function)?

<?php
foreach ($user->roles as $role)
	{
	if ($role == "authenticated user") {
		$newrole = "role-";
	}
	else {
		$newrole = $role;
	}
	$roleClass .= t("%role", array('%role' => $newrole,));
	}
?>