Kinda as a follow up on this while the topic is here,
Is it possible to give moderators rights to use colours in posts?
Reading from the manual only admins can do this.

Look at the following statement in bb_codes.php:

if($admin==1) {
$pattern[]="/\[font(#[A-F0-9]{6})\](.+?)\[\/font\]/is";
$replacement[]='<font color="\\1">\\2</font>';
}

you may edit it like:

if($admin==1 or $GLOBALS['isMod']==1) {
$pattern[]="/\[font(#[A-F0-9]{6})\](.+?)\[\/font\]/is";
$replacement[]='<font color="\\1">\\2</font>';
}

and it should work.

Thanks alot for your quick reply :)
Worked like a dream

- Amund

Not too hard to make your own colortags .... :-)

$pattern[]="/\[red\](.+?)\[\/red\]/is";
$replacement[]='<font color=\"#FF0000\">\\1</font>';

put this in bb_codes.php and see what effect [red]test[/red] brings you.

I leave it to your own creativity to make other colors and find out how to de-code these tags (for editing!)

_Marco

Ok, so I already put this in bb_codes.php under encode:

$pattern[]="/[color=black](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#000000">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=white](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#FFFFFF">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=red](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#FF0000">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=blue](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#0000FF">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=brown](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#993300">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=cyan](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#00FFFF">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=darkblue](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#000099">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=darkred](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#990000">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=green](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#009900">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=grey](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#999999">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=olive](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#999900">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=orange]
(.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#FF9900">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=pink](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#FF33FF">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=purple]
(.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#9900FF">\1</font>';

$pattern[]="/[color=yellow]
(.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<font color="#FFFF00">\1</font>';

And it works ok, but what I don't get is why does it work without corresponding DEcode definitions?
Is this invisibly damaging in some way or should it be fine?

This works, allright, no problemo. You don't need a decode definition corresponding with an encode definition.

But .... what do you see when you edit your message?

That's why you need the decode definitions:-)

_Marco

Oh yeah, I made up some decoding definitions, so thats probably why... lol

I have added the following to the function EncodeBB:

$pattern[]="/[color=(black|white|skyblue|royalblue|blue|darkblue|purp le|orange|yellow|gold|tomato|coral|orangered|crimson|red|firebrick|dar kred|green|limegreen|seagreen|deeppink|purple|indigo|burlywood|sandybr own|sienna|chocolate|teal|silver|gray)](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]='<span style="color:1">2</span>';

My problem is, I don't know how to add it to the DecodeBB($msg) area. I added this but I am not too sure if it is correct.

$pattern[]="/<span style="color:1">(.+?)</span>/is";
$replacement[]="[color=(black|white|skyblue|royalblue|blue|darkblue|pu rple|orange|yellow|gold|tomato|coral|orangered|crimson|red|firebrick|d arkred|green|limegreen|seagreen|deeppink|purple|indigo|burlywood|sandy brown|sienna|chocolate|teal|silver|gray)]\2[/color]";


Thank for anyhelp here.

it should be:


$pattern[]="/<span style=\"color:(black|white|skyblue|royalblue|blue|darkblue|pu rple|orange|yellow|gold|tomato|coral|orangered|crimson|red|firebrick|d arkred|green|limegreen|seagreen|deeppink|purple|indigo|burlywood|sandy brown|sienna|chocolate|teal|silver|gray)\">(.+?)</span>/is";
$replacement[]="[color=\\1]
\\2[/color]";


the encodeBB code seems to be incorrect as well(maybe cause there was a bug with slashes on this server should be fixed now).. it should be something like:

$pattern[]="/[color=(black|white|skyblue|royalblue|blue|darkblue|purp le|orange|yellow|gold|tomato|coral|orangered|crimson|red|firebrick|dar kred|green|limegreen|seagreen|deeppink|purple|indigo|burlywood|sandybr own|sienna|chocolate|teal|silver|gray)](.+?)[/color]/i";
$replacement[]="<span style=\"color:\\1\">\\2</span>";

After making some changes to it I got it to work. The problem though is this. My colors work great but I went into the message to edit it, I thne get the following: eg:- <span style="color:red">Test RED</span>. Then once I finish editing the message and save it I get that example as the output. Is there any way around this?

Thanks for all your help.
Shedrock

and the decodeBB pattern is set like in my post above?

try this decodeBB pattern:

$pattern[]="/<span style=\"color:(black|white|skyblue|royalblue|blue|darkblue|pu rple|orange|yellow|gold|tomato|coral|orangered|crimson|red|firebrick|d arkred|green|limegreen|seagreen|deeppink|purple|indigo|burlywood|sandy brown|sienna|chocolate|teal|silver|gray)\">([^<]+?)<\/span>/ims";
$replacement[]="[color=\\1]
\\2[/color]";


make sure there're no end of line signs in it when you paste it all words should run together in each line..

Thank you very much. This works great now.

Cheers!
Shedrock

you're welcome :)

I am back again. I seem to still be having problems with this. I have tested it over and over and it appears that sometimes I get the following. Although it does work sometimes with less content in the post.

The below is just an example of what happens.

<span style="color:green">It's now become quite obvious that the current messages.php has more holes than I can fix. Therefore I am scrapping the entire script with a complete rewrite under way. For your site's protection I recommend that you remove messages.php from your server as hacking groups are targeting this scripts hole to hijack admin accounts. I am working as fast as possible and should have a newly coded messages.php script ready within 48 hours. The messages.php will work in all v6 installations. I apologise for any inconvenience caused by this issue.</span>

See? sometimes I still get the <span> when I edit the message. It seems to depend on the text used in the message. I am confused.

Shedrock

after doing some more testing it appears that I can't use the [color] tag before the [b] tag. I must use it in this manner: ex.

[b][color=red]Shedrock[/color][ /b]

Why is this?

Thank for any help.
Shedrock