Request - member highlight in nested quotes

[Xenocide]

Morning mods,

My latest request. I'd like my posts to be highlighted when quoted in threads.

I guess it'd only work if you didn't change your name for historic posts (if posted name == logged in name, as you can't identify by posterID for quotes as they're not associated).

Thoughts?

[RacingPete]

It would be a useful tool but the problem is that we look at the ID of the poster to do the highlighting and for a quoted post we do not have the quoted person's ID and thus cant match it up.

There is a possibility we could do this with a bit of clever looking at the text in the posts but we would have to evaluate how that effects the speed of the forums. Though as I write I wonder if I could do it on your browser side (thus not effecting the speed) and have a button to click (or once page is loaded) to highlight your name through the page.

I will add it on to the list but probably not something that will be done (if we can work it out) till next year.

[Taita]

Could a greasemonkey script do this? Just input your username, then it would parse the text on the page, and highlight anything it found with both your name in, and surrounded by [ quote] tags?

Or even JScript?

[RacingPete]

Taita said:

Could a greasemonkey script do this? Just input your username, then it would parse the text on the page, and highlight anything it found with both your name in, and surrounded by [ quote] tags?

Or even JScript?

Wasn't that this bit - "I could do it on your browser side (thus not effecting the speed) and have a button to click (or once page is loaded) to highlight your name through the page."

[Taita]

RacingPete said:

Taita said:

Could a greasemonkey script do this? Just input your username, then it would parse the text on the page, and highlight anything it found with both your name in, and surrounded by [ quote] tags?

Or even JScript?

Wasn't that this bit - "I could do it on your browser side (thus not effecting the speed) and have a button to click (or once page is loaded) to highlight your name through the page."

Yup, just in the meantime as I know you guys are busy implementing my 'link to individual posts' idea

[Xenocide]

If I write the script (js) will you put it sitewide?

[RacingPete]

Xenocide said:

If I write the script (js) will you put it sitewide?

Sure, go for it

[Xenocide]

RacingPete said:

Xenocide said:

If I write the script (js) will you put it sitewide?

Sure, go for it

Can you have a div somewhere with a unique(obviously) id with just the username in it, hidden somewhere?

[RacingPete]

Not in the middle of a post, but can outside of the posts. Not sure how this helps though?

[Xenocide]

No, as in the user's username. It's easier getting the innerHTML of a div rather than trying to scrape the bit at the top "Welcome back, RacingPete. Your last visit was etc".

You could have "Welcome back <div id='userName'>Xenocide</div>".

[RacingPete]

Sorry, now I get it

Yes this could be done, probably put it around the logged in bit and make it a span instead

I will call it <span id="membername">RacingPete</span>

Does that help?

[Xenocide]

Ok. Done it .

First, add this to the stylesheet:

code said:

.quoteHighlight{ background-color: #E0E8F9;
margin: 1px 2em 1.5em 1em;
padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid gray;
font-size: small;
}

Add this JS:

code said:

function HighlightQuotes()
{

// username = document.getElementById("membername").innerHTML;
username = "Xenocide";
quotes = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
output = "";
for (i = 0; i < quotes.length; i = i + 1)
{

if( quotes[i].className == "forumQuoter")
{
tquser = quotes[i].innerHTML.match("^([a-zA-Z ]+) said:");
if(tquser != null)
{
if(tquser[1] == username)
{
quotes[i].nextSibling.nextSibling.className = "quoteHighlight";
}
}

}

}

}

Obviously delete out the second username declaration when you've implemented the usernameid do-dah.

Tested in just firefox but don't see why it shouldn't work in other browsers.



[Edit: Oh, and call HightlightQuotes() when the page has loaded. Add a small image at the bottom of the page and have an onload event?]

Edited by Xenocide on Friday 7th November 12:51

Edited by Xenocide on Friday 7th November 12:51

Edited by Xenocide on Friday 7th November 12:53

Edited by Xenocide on Friday 7th November 12:54

[RacingPete]

Cheers

Will have a play with it on our test server

[Taita]

Nice!

[RacingPete]

It works

I will make it so in the next update

[Xenocide]

You're a stella geeza, Pete. Did it work on in IE? It'll give annoying errors if it's not happy.

[RacingPete]

Just put on staging environment and it isn't working for the Classic PH skin, but is for the Big Blue... so need a little bit more playing before go live with this.

[Xenocide]

Did you add the new css thing to the other stylesheet?

[edit: to be more helpful. I made it for the classic skin. does it give js errors or does it just not change your quotes?! Is it public access? Call me if its any use. *removed*, edit the number out when you've got it ]

Edited by Xenocide on Monday 10th November 13:11

Edited by RacingPete on Monday 10th November 14:03

[RacingPete]

The code is fine, it just needs a quick tweak to work cross all the skins which I will do in a bit as have some commercial stuff to sort out first... it pays the bills

[Xenocide]

Ahh ok fair enough .

Good luck !