Just a few coding suggestions

[toliver]

I don't know about other people, but I like using posting templates. When I say posting templates, I mean things like this. Of course, it's just an aesthetic sort of thing. I don't recall the exact link but I do have the code. The code below would go in global footers before everything else.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
/*
Name: ENHANCED UBBC TABLE TAGS
Location: Global Footer
Created by EtonBones at yahoo d o t com
Do not redistribute without permission
Feel free to edit provided a notation is
added to this header stating that fact.
THIS HEADER MUST REMAIN INTACT.
*/


/*********** *****START EDITABLE USER OPTIONS***********************
If not concerned about the security risk posed by allowing users the ability
to set events such as onclick and onmouseover in their posts
set the following variable to false*/
var DisallowEvents=false;

/*If UBBC Undo installed and you would like enhanced tags added to history
set the following variable to true*/
var UUInstalled=false;
/******END EDITABLE USER OPTIONS (NO FURTHER EDITING NECESSARY)*******/


var NoGood="Enhanced tags need to be between the [td] and [/td]";
function enhanceTable(){
var td=document.getElementsByTagName("td");
for(i=0;i<td.length;i++){
if(td[i].width=="20%" && td[i].className.match(/windowbg/) && /(Posts:\s*[\d,]+|Guest)/.test(td[i].innerText||td[i].textContent)){
var msg=td[i].nextSibling.getElementsByTagName('tr')[1];
if(msg.getElementsByTagName('table').length){
for(l=0;l<msg.getElementsByTagName('table').length;l++){
parseTags(msg.getElementsByTagName('table')[l]);
//separate func needed since rowspans need to be set first in order to count columns
parseTH(msg.getElementsByTagName('table')[l]);
}
}
}else if(document.postForm && td[i].width=="30%" && td[i].className.match(/windowbg2/) && !document.getElementById('enhancedTable')){
var TR=td[i].parentNode;
var newTR=TR.parentNode.insertRow(TR.rowIndex+1);
TR.id="enhancedTable";
var newTD=document.createElement('td');
newTD.width='30%';
newTD.className='windowbg2';
newTD.innerHTML='<font size="2">Enhanced Table Tags:</font>';
newTR.appendChild(newTD);
newTD=document.createElement('td');
newTD.width='70%';
newTD.className='windowbg2';
newTD.innerHTML='<font size="2">Select Tag:</font><select name="etags" onChange=" addEtag(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);this.selectedIndex=0;" ><option value="" selected="1">Enhanced Table Tags</option><option value="[th]" >Header</option><option value="[cs=2]">Span Columns</option><option value="[rs=2]">Span Rows</option><option value="[bg=white]">Background Color</option><option value="[atrb=border,0,true]">Any Attribute</option></select> ';
newTR.appendChild(newTD);
}else if(document.postForm && td[i].width=="100%" && td[i].className.match(/titlebg/) && td[i].innerHTML.match(/Topic Summary/)){
var table=td[i].parentNode.parentNode;
var re= /(?:[^\"])(\[(th|cs|rs|bg|atrb).*?\])/gim;
if(table.className.match(/tbody/i))table=table.parentNode;
for(l=2;l<table.rows.length;l=l+2){
if(table.rows[l].cells[0].innerHTML.match(/(?:[^\"\=])(\[(th|cs|rs|bg|atrb).*?\])/gim)){
while(table.rows[l].cells[0].innerHTML.match(/(?:[^\"\=])(\[(th|cs|rs|bg|atrb).*?\])/im ) ){
table.rows[l].cells[0].innerHTML= table.rows[l].cells[0].innerHTML.replace(/(?:[^\"\=])(\[(th|cs|rs|bg|atrb).*?\])/im, stripAnchor(RegExp.$1,RegExp.$2) ) ;
}
}
}
}
}
}

function stripAnchor(str){
var t=/(<A href\=.*\>(.*?)\<\/A\>)/i
if(!str)return "";
var s=str.substr(0,1);
if(s=='\"')return str;
if(s=="\[") s="";
if(str.match(t))str=str.replace(RegExp.$1,RegExp.$2);
return s+"<a title=\""+str+"\">*</a>";
}

function parseTags(TBL){
if(TBL.className !=""){
TBLS=TBL.getElementsByTagName('table')
for(k=0;k<TBLS.length;k++)parseTags(TBLS[k]);
return true;
}
var cell=TBL.getElementsByTagName('td');
var nada="";
for (j=0;j<cell.length;j++){
if(cell[j].innerHTML.match(/(\[cs\=(\d+)\])/i)){
cell[j].setAttribute("colSpan",RegExp.$2);
cell[j].innerHTML=cell[j].innerHTML.replace(RegExp.$1,'');
}
if(cell[j].innerHTML.match(/(\[rs\=(\d+)\])/i)){
cell[j].setAttribute("rowSpan",RegExp.$2);
cell[j].innerHTML=cell[j].innerHTML.replace(RegExp.$1,'');
}
if(cell[j].innerHTML.match(/(\[bg\=(.*?)\])/i)){
cell[j].setAttribute("bgColor",RegExp.$2);
cell[j].innerHTML=cell[j].innerHTML.replace(RegExp.$1,'');
}
while(cell[j].innerHTML.match(/(\[atrb\=(.*?)\])/i)){
var r1=RegExp.$1;
var r2=RegExp.$2;
var atrb=""; var atrbVal="";
var applyTable=false;
var oObj;
if(r2.split(',').length>0){ atrb=r2.split(',')[0]; atrb=atrb.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g,"");}
if(r2.split(',').length>1) {atrbVal=r2.split(',')[1]; atrbVal=atrbVal.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g,"");}
if(atrbVal.match(/(<A href\=.*\>(.*)\<\/A\>)/i))atrbVal=atrbVal.replace(RegExp.$1,RegExp.$2);
if(r2.split(',').length>2)applyTable=r2.split(',')[2]?true:false;
oObj=applyTable?TBL:cell[j];
if(atrb != ""){
if(atrb.toLowerCase()=="style"){
oObj.style.cssText+=atrbVal;
}else if(atrb.toLowerCase().substr(0,2)=="on" && DisallowEvents){
nada="<a title=\"Disallowed: "+r1.replace("[","").replace("]","") +"\">*</a>";
}else{
document.expando=false; //IE workaround for casing
try{
oObj.setAttribute(atrb,atrbVal);
}catch(e){
nada="<a title=\"Casing Error: "+r1.replace("[","").replace("]","") +"\">*</a>";
}finally{
document.expando=true;
}
}
}
cell[j].innerHTML=cell[j].innerHTML.replace(r1,nada);
}
}
}

function parseTH(TBL){
if(TBL.className !=""){
TBLS=TBL.getElementsByTagName('table')
for(k=0;k<TBLS.length;k++)parseTags(TBLS[k]);
return true;
}
var cell=TBL.getElementsByTagName('td');
for (j=0;j<cell.length;j++){
if(cell[j].innerHTML.match(/(\[th\])/i)){
cell[j].setAttribute("colSpan",columns(TBL));
cell[j].innerHTML=cell[j].innerHTML.replace(RegExp.$1,'');
}
}
}
function columns(TBL){
//w3c states that a colSpan=0 should make a cell span all columns but IE doesn't honor this, so...
var columns=0;
var tmp;
for(o=0;o<TBL.rows.length;o++){
tmp=0;
for(p=0;p<TBL.rows[o].cells.length;p++){
tmp++
if(TBL.rows[o].cells[p].rowSpan>1)tmp=tmp+TBL.rows[o].cells[p].rowSpan-1;
}
if(tmp>columns)columns=tmp;
}
return columns;
}

function addEtag(tag){
if(tag!=""){
if(UUInstalled){
if(isInsideCell()){
addX(tag);
}else{
alert(NoGood);
document.postForm.message.focus();
}
}else{
if(isInsideCell()){
add(tag);
}else{
alert(NoGood);
document.postForm.message.focus();
}
}
}
}


function isInsideCell(){
//Function purpose: determine if insertion point falls within the bounds of a cell
var msg=document.postForm.message;
if(document.postForm.message.createTextRange){
getCursorPositionIE();
var tmp= document.postForm.message.value.substr(0,document.postForm.message.selectionStart).split("\n").length-1;
setCursorPositionIE(msg.selectionStart-tmp);
}
msg.selectionStart=msg.selectionEnd;
var curr=msg.selectionStart;
if(msg.value.substr(0,curr).lastIndexOf("[td]")==-1 || msg.value.substr(0,curr).lastIndexOf("[td]")<msg.value.substr(0,curr).lastIndexOf("[/td]"))
return false;
if(msg.value.substr(curr).indexOf("[/td]")==-1 || (msg.value.substr(curr).indexOf("[/td]")>msg.value.substr(curr).indexOf("[td]") && msg.value.substr(curr).indexOf("[td]")!=-1))
return false;
if(msg.value.substr(0,curr).lastIndexOf("[")>msg.value.substr(0,curr).lastIndexOf("]"))
return false;
if(msg.value.substr(curr).indexOf("]")<msg.value.substr(curr).indexOf("[") )
return false;
return true;
}

if(location.href.match(/action\=(display|pmview|recent|userrecent|goto|search|calendarview)/) || ( document.postForm ))
enhanceTable();


function setCursorPositionIE(start,end) {
if(document.selection){
var element=document.postForm.message;
end=(end)?end:start;
var range = element.createTextRange();
range.collapse(true);
range.moveEnd('character', end);
range.moveStart('character', start);
range.select();
}
}

function getCursorPositionIE(){
if(document.selection){
var element = document.postForm.message;
element.focus();
var range = document.selection.createRange();
var stored_range = range.duplicate();
stored_range.moveToElementText( element );
stored_range.setEndPoint( 'EndToEnd', range );
element.selectionStart = stored_range.text.length - range.text.length;
element.selectionEnd = element.selectionStart + range.text.length;
element.selectionFaux=true;
}
}
//-->
</script>

one last possible code request. I realized that in my thread, I forgot about the code that allows style tags when it comes to template coding. That's probably confusing, but it makes coding easier. Long story short, one more code?

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/* Style UBBC Tags
Created by iPokemon
Do not redistribute or call as your own
Updated Dec. 23rd, 2010
Copyright 2010 */

if(document.postForm) {
document.postForm.color.parentNode.innerHTML+='<a href="javascript:add(\'[style=]\',\'[/style]\')"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/66x2m1.png" alt="Style" border="0" /></a>';
}

//Replacement Portion
if(pb_action.match(/(calendar|pm|pre)view|search2|display/i)){
var td = document.getElementsByTagName('td'); var matCH=/\[style=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/style\]/gi;
for(l=0;l<td.length;l++){
if(td[l].width=="80%"&&td[l].innerHTML.match(matCH)){
td[l].innerHTML = td[l].innerHTML.replace(matCH, '<div style="$1;">$2</div>');
}
}
}
//--></script>



Just place that in global footers if you decide to use it. Thanks in advance. Oh dear, I didn't expect that to be so long >.> Anyway, I only had one more thing to add on. If you do decide to use that code above, then perhaps this code may accompany it? It allows one to save little snippits of UBBC coding and use it at the click of a button. Just a few suggestions. I won't be offended if you don't use any of them :3

Also, I'd suggest that you have a thread where you have the character application form.

[Ayumi Yushida]

First of all, I know i may sound like an idiot but what are the posting templates used for?

Second, we don't need a form since we can already just click new thread and members could make their own. I do see that many have problems with that so I'll place a note in "rules" to remind them...

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
-Ayumi Yushida

[toliver]

Posting templates are just things that make a post look pretty. I'm a stickler for that, but it doesn't really matter. I'll roleplay with or without a posting template :3

[Ayumi Yushida]

Well, first of all this is my questions. Do you know coding or graphic designing?
Second, let me test it first ok?

[toliver]

Oh yes, coding is my type of thing. I've got a link to a board of examples of the things I've done if you'd like to see it. As for if you want to test it out, go right on ahead. A posting template won't show up unless you code for it so you won't suddenly have things popping up. Promise :3

[Ayumi Yushida]

Well if you dont mind please fill an application form I would like to see your coding as well. We could really use you.

[Ayumi Yushida]

Suggestion approved. Thread locked. 300$ given to Toliver.