[bgcolor] tag addition suggestion

[Ultimater]

Hey, there's been numerous times that I wanted to hilight
special keywords as I was posting Javascript code.
Can we get a [bgcolor] tag added to the forums?

It shouldn't be any harder than:
<font style="background-color: yellow;">message</font>

[rhsunderground]

of course, we'd want valid code, but i believe there are only certain BB codes available.

http://www.loveshack.org/forums/misc.php?s=&action=bbcode

[Ultimater]

What on earth was the note on the bottom of your link?

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Adding new VB code to forums should be easy as pie.
All you need to do is add another case to the server-side script
and have it be replaced with HTML code to be displayed to the page.

If you entered this text is hilighted green
you only need the serverside-script (in this case PHP) to output the following to the page:
<font style="background-color: green;">this text is hilighted green</font>


Why can't the administrators edit the PHP file?

[rhsunderground]

i don't know about the admin editing. i just found that link. :p

[AdamGundry]

Originally posted by Ultimater
Why can't the administrators edit the PHP file?They can, but don't really want to. Jupitermedia (the owners of this forum) run rather a lot of sites like this across the web, and changing the code could cause problems when vBulletin gets upgraded.

Adam

Edit: tidied up post.