/me (slash me) command

[MeDammit]

So I'm sure that has be covered somewhere in the 750 pages of requests, however no method of searching with a "/" in the textbox returns results.

So here is my question:

Where would I need to modify code to add /me into phpBB 3.0.8? If you could point me to where this has already been covered, thanks. If it hasn't been done (unlikey), please point me in the direction of the php file to modify and where the approximate code block is that posts are entered into the db.

Thanks,
Robert

[MeDammit]

Thanks for approving me. Definitely hoping to get the resolved and hopefully the "slash" in the description will help other people looking to find this

[AmigoJack]

The following will naively replace any occuring /me (case insensitive) surrounded by whitespaces with the current username when creating (not editing) a post. Hence if the author's nickname changes in the future the substituted username in the post itself won't be updated. This is the least obstructive solution without impacting performance at all.

Open /posting.php and find:

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    // Parse Attachments - before checksum is calculated
    $message_parser->parse_attachments('fileupload', $mode, $forum_id, $submit, $preview, $refresh); 

After, add:

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    /*** 2011-04-15 BEGIN AmigoJack
        Convert "/me" to current poster ***/
    if( $mode!= 'edit' ) {
        $message_parser-> message= preg_replace( '#(^|\\s)/me($|\\s)#i', '$1'. $user-> data['username']. '$2', $message_parser-> message );
    }
    /*** 2011-04-15 END ***/ 

Tested.

[MeDammit]

Thank you very much. Quick easy implementation, works great.

I appreciate it, hopefully someone else will be able to find this helpful as well!

[DJMO79]

i love this mod, but is there a possibility to replace the /me command with *username? so with the asterisk before the username?

[AmigoJack]

That would be:

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    /*** 2011-04-15 BEGIN AmigoJack
        Convert "/me" to current poster ***/
    if( $mode!= 'edit' ) {
        $message_parser-> message= preg_replace( '#(^|\\s)/me($|\\s)#i', '$1*'. $user-> data['username']. '$2', $message_parser-> message );
    }
    /*** 2011-04-15 END ***/  

[DJMO79]

That would be:

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    /*** 2011-04-15 BEGIN AmigoJack
        Convert "/me" to current poster ***/
    if( $mode!= 'edit' ) {
        $message_parser-> message= preg_replace( '#(^|\\s)/me($|\\s)#i', '$1*'. $user-> data['username']. '$2', $message_parser-> message );
    }
    /*** 2011-04-15 END ***/

thanx! It works great. Yet another question from on of the users on my forum, is if there is a possibility to get the converted text in a anothor color

[AmigoJack]

Yes. Compare my last code with the original code - I'm sure you'll find out where to add any text you want. So you can add aswell [color=] and such.

[DJMO79]

Yes. Compare my last code with the original code - I'm sure you'll find out where to add any text you want. So you can add aswell [color=] and such.

well, together with my friend studied about it, but the colorizing of it in my theme has something do with the css orso. Didn't understand what me ment exactly, but thnx voor the help!

[AmigoJack]

Seriously.

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    /*** 2011-04-15 BEGIN AmigoJack
        Convert "/me" to current poster with leading asterisk in green color ***/
    if( $mode!= 'edit' ) {
        $message_parser-> message= preg_replace( '#(^|\\s)/me($|\\s)#i', '$1[color=green]*'. $user-> data['username']. '[/color]$2', $message_parser-> message );
    }
    /*** 2011-04-15 END ***/

[DJMO79]

Seriously.

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    /*** 2011-04-15 BEGIN AmigoJack
        Convert "/me" to current poster with leading asterisk in green color ***/
    if( $mode!= 'edit' ) {
        $message_parser-> message= preg_replace( '#(^|\\s)/me($|\\s)#i', '$1[color=green]*'. $user-> data['username']. '[/color]$2', $message_parser-> message );
    }
    /*** 2011-04-15 END ***/ 

i love it that you want to help me, because i don't have got any knowledge of PHP. And yes, your last solution posts the user name in the green color, but i want the whole sentence (or action) in the same color.

to be more specific, i wish i could use it aswell at as a BBcode ..

for example:
[me=DJMO] is going to throw her computer out of the window[/me] en that is would be post as:
*DJMO is going to throw her pc out of te window
And than the whole sentence in a different color of the main colors.

i know i'm difficult

[ViolaF]

Go to your ACP > Posting > BBcodes

BBCode usage

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[me={TEXT1}]{TEXT2}[/me] 

HTML replacement

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<span style="color:green;">*{TEXT1} {TEXT2}</span> 

change green with whatever color

[DJMO79]

Go to your ACP > Posting > BBcodes

BBCode usage

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[me={TEXT1}]{TEXT2}[/me]

HTML replacement

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<span style="color:green;">*{TEXT1} {TEXT2}</span>

change green with whatever color

i'm ever gratefull to you _O_

[Wulfric]

==:: Another Method ::==

The way I achieved this was

File: includes/functions_content.php
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?>

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Post the content on a new line BEFORE the above find.

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/**
* Wulfric
* Parses to replace /me with username and color
* Gives HTML output, use only before final output
*/

function replace_slash_me_display($text, $username, $color) {
    $text = preg_replace( '#(^)/me(\s+.+)($)#im', '$1<i><b>* <font color="#'. $color . '">' . $username . '</font></b><font color="red">$2</font></i>$3', $text );
    return $text;
}

File: viewtopic.php
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    $message = bbcode_nl2br($message);
 

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        // BEGIN Wulfric - replace '/me'
        $message = replace_slash_me_display($message, $row['username'], $row['user_colour']);
        // END - replace '/me'
 

The reason I chose to do this way was:

• It does not actually change the input being sent, only modifies the display
• When user group/colour is changed it will always adapt
• Editing is easier without extra BBCODE to handle

(It's basically the same method using preg_replace, just a different concept. (Only changing the display parsing)

[AmigoJack]

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<font

We have 2013 and you're still using this dinosaur? Use at least proper XHTML, like:

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<em style="font-weight: bold; color: #FFF">theusername</em>