BBCode to greet New User

[Hellendor]

Hi all...

I am trying to create a BBCode that when typing

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[newu]Name User[/newu]

That user will be recognised as a registered user and will get a welcome message, for example:

Hello user-name, welcome to the Forum.
We are waiting for you in the Presentation area to get to know you a little better.
Best regards!

With my limited knowledge I have only managed to do the following:

BBCODE:

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[newu]{TEXT}[/newu]

HTML:

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Hello <span style=‘text’; colour: #105289;><strong>{TEXT}</strong></strong></span> and welcome to the Forum.<br />
We are waiting for you in the&nbsp;<span style=‘colour: #ff0000;’><a style=‘colour: #ff0000;’ href=‘https://www.-----.com’><strong>Presentation</strong></a></strong></span>&nbsp;><strong>to get to know you a little better.<br />
Greetings!

But I can't get it to recognise the user and I can't get it to show in colour what I have marked. Can you help me?

Best regards.

NOTE: Sorry if I shouldn't put this help here.

[Mannix_]

HTML:

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Hello <span style=‘text’; colour: #105289;><strong>{TEXT}</strong></strong></span> and welcome to the Forum.<br />
We are waiting for you in the <span style=‘colour: #ff0000;’><a style=‘colour: #ff0000;’ href=‘https://www.-----.com’><strong>Presentation</strong></a></strong></span> ><strong>to get to know you a little better.<br />
Greetings!

This isn't a correct way to write html try this

HTML:

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Hello <span style="color: #105289;"><strong>{TEXT}</strong></strong></span> and welcome to the Forum.<br />
We are waiting for you in the <span style="color: #ff0000;"><a style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://www.-----.com"><strong>Presentation</strong></a></strong></span> ><strong>to get to know you a little better.<br />
Greetings!

[Hellendor]

Hello Mannix_

First of all thank you very much for your quick help, now I'll tell you what happens with your help....

I had to remove a couple of repeated commands that did nothing and now it is cleaner. The only thing is that it still doesn't recognise the user and doesn't give colour to the user or to the Presentation link.

Hello Hellendor and welcome to the Forum.
We are waiting for you in the Presentation area to get to know you a little better.
Best regards!

That's how it looks like.

I have another BBCode made that recognises the user and gives him the colour that corresponds to him if I pass the mouse over it, so I have it done and it is like this

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[user]{TEXT}[/user]

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<div style=‘text’>{TEXT}</div>

As you can see it is very simple and works perfectly, it is what I would like to achieve but in the other way that I have shown you.
I don't know why in my phpBB3 website it doesn't work...

[Mannix_]

I'm failing to see what is suppose to recognize the user and give him color? Do you have some kind of js script running for it or something else?

[Hellendor]

No, I don't have any js script, that's why I don't understand why it doesn't work.

[Brf]

I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but style=‘text’ means nothing to a span or div. Also, there is no tag called colour. It should be spelled color

[Mannix_]

Can you show us that working bbcode in action? I'm hella confused why and how it is working.

[Hellendor]

Hi Brf

This is how I have it set up...

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Muy buenas <span style="color: #105289;"><strong>{TEXT}</strong></span> y bienvenido al Foro.<br />
Te esperamos en la zona de <span style="color: #ff0000;"><a style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://www.winuaespanol.com"><strong>Presentación</strong></a></span> para conocerte un poco mejor.<br />
Un saludo!

So, where {TEXT} is, is where the user-name should appear, understanding that, for example, if I hover over it and click the mouse, it will take me to the user's profile.

In my forum if we write [user]pingui[/user] directly Pingui will appear in red because he is the Founder (it's me) and if we write the name of another user it will appear in the corresponding color. I have achieved this with the bbcode I mentioned before.

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[user]{TEXT}[/user]

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<div style="text">{TEXT}</div>

And with the idea that this bbcode would work for the user's name, I wanted to create one to welcome the new user who introduces himself with the text I have shown you.

[Brf]

You cannot do that with a bbcode directly. A bbcode cannot "look up" a user to see what color they should be. All a bbcode does is take your "TEXT" parameter and replace it with the text you type into the post.

If you type

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 [newu]Santa Claus[/newu]

into your post, it would replace the TEXT with "Santa Claus". Your bbcode would have no idea whether Santa Claus is a user of your board or not. If you have some special [user] bbcode, then you must have an extension that is enabling the bbcode to do that.

[Hellendor]

Ok Brf,

Then I can leave it as I have it and that's it, so at least if I can send the Welcome greeting to the user, even if it comes out in black, because I've seen that you can't give a fixed colour X to the user and the link.

Thank you very much for your help.

Anyway, if you know how I can give colour, I will be grateful.

Thanks again.

[warmweer]

Honestly, I see no added value in a bbcode like that unless your text remains the same throughout (but for the user name).
Why not just create and save a draft welcome text which you could then copy?

On a side note, what you're requesting is basically a welcome and introduction to the board: something that could be a welcome post/topic (perhaps even a forum with informational sections) OR just simply a welcome PM.

[Steve]

You could use the quote system like this to tag a user without an extension.

I'm new here

You need the username and user_id to be correct.

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[quote=Hellendor  user_id=1878526]
Welcome Aboard :D 
[/quote]

Just a little tip.

[RMcGirr83]

On a side note, what you're requesting is basically a welcome and introduction to the board: something that could be a welcome post/topic (perhaps even a forum with informational sections) OR just simply a welcome PM.

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... e_welcome/
If it helps the OP

[HiFiKabin]

Simple Mentions will allow you to tag any member in a post, which is what you are looking for (I think)