Little help with admin / mod colors

[dustoff99]

I am a total nOOb to phpBB, our clan is swithing from ezboard to phpBB. Many thanks for the theme that you created and shared for others to use.

My question, how do you change the admin / mod colors?

[Sean]

edit the files within the admin folder

[dustoff99]

I just didn't know which file it was that contained that info...I believe I have opened up every .tpl file .css file, in the admin folder (again total nOOb over here) and I didn't see any reference to mod / admin color...

[Sean]

oh those colors lol, check this out:

How do I change the Admin and Moderator colors on my forum index?


Well, we can change the admin and moderator colors through our admin control panel, go to Styles Admin ---> Management ---> Edit your current template ---> Scroll down to Font Colour 2: and Font Colour 3:

Change the hex code of this to reflect your desired colors
Font Colour 2: == Moderator
Font Colour 3: == Admin

Problems
When you do this, you have just changed all fonts that use the font colour 2 and 3. It probably wont look attractive, nor will it be exactly what you want.

The best way.
Edit Page Header file
What we need to do is to edit phpbb manually. Pretty simple. We need to do the fallowing

Download the page_header.php file from the phpBB2/includes/ folder

Make an extra copy, just incase

Open it in your favorite text editor (WordPad.. notepad.... ect.)

For the Admin...
Code:


#######
##Find## Line 114
######
if ( $row['user_level'] == ADMIN )
{
$username = '<b style="color:#' . $theme['fontcolor3'] . '">' . $username . '</b>';
}



Notice the fallowing code
Code:

' . $theme['fontcolor3'] . '


This is what we need to replace. We need to replace it with our own code. We want a hex code.

Replace that section with your hex code of choice. Mine is going to look like this

Code:

000000



We should replace our new code with something that looks like
Code:


##########
##Replace## Line 114
#########
if ( $row['user_level'] == ADMIN )
{
$username = '<b style="color:#000000">' . $username . '</b>';
}


Notice the Hex Code? That?s the only change. Now we need to do the same to our Moderator. Scroll down about 4 lines to?

Code:


#######
##Find## Line 126
######
if ( $row['user_level'] == MOD )
{
$username = '<b style="color:#' . $theme['fontcolor2'] . '">' . $username . '</b>';
}



And replace it with your desired hex code for the MOD as above,
Code:


##########
##Replace## Line 126
#########
if ( $row['user_level'] == ADMIN )
{
$username = '<b style="color:#ffffff">' . $username . '</b>';
}





One more set we need to change.
Code:


#######
##Find## Line 363
######

L_WHOSONLINE_ADMIN' => sprintf($lang['Admin_online_color'], '<span style="color:#' . $theme['fontcolor3'] . '">', '</span>'),




We need to change add the hex code to reflect our ADMIN color above.
Code:


##########
##Replace## Line 363
#########
L_WHOSONLINE_ADMIN' => sprintf($lang['Admin_online_color'], '<span style="color:#000000">', '</span>'),




Now we need to change the MOD Colors.
Code:


#######
##Find## Line 364
#######
'L_WHOSONLINE_MOD' => sprintf($lang['Mod_online_color'], '<span style="color:#' . $theme['fontcolor2'] . '">', '</span>'),



We need to change add the hex code to reflect our ADMIN color above.

Code:


##########
##Replace## Line 364
#########
'L_WHOSONLINE_MOD' => sprintf($lang['Mod_online_color'], '<span style="color:#ffffff ">', '</span>'),






Now we are done, Save and upload the new file over the old one.

found this @ http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=52

[dustoff99]

Download the page_header.php file from the phpBB2/includes/ folder

Where did you get the page_header.php? I have a page_header.tpl file but it didn't have any of those lines in it....

[Sean]

this file is not in your templates directory, but in your includes directory:

/www/forum/includes/page_header.php