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I've been looking through the scripts and templates for hours...

How do I get the user's group color?

Like, for example, the user's name on their profile is their usergroup color.

I want to do some editing on my forum, and I can't figure out how to get the user's color, it's just their username.

I've been changing some stuff in a few of the PHP scripts and the templates, but I get nothing.

ACP > Users and Groups > Groups > {group to edit} > General tab > Username Style

$mybb->usergroup['namestyle'] will get the actual HTML, format_name($username, $usergroup) will return the formatted name.

That didn't work.

This is an example of what I'm trying to do. I made it yellow using FireBug.

Post the code you're using. This is how it's done in MyBB so it can't really not work.

For forumbit_depth2_forum_lastpost:

I tried:

<span class="smalltext">
<a href="{$lastpost_link}" title="{$full_lastpost_subject}"><strong>{$lastpost_subject}</strong></a>
<br />{$lastpost_date} {$lastpost_time}<br />Last Post by: $mybb->usergroup['namestyle']{$lastpost_profilelink}</span>

and

<span class="smalltext">
<a href="{$lastpost_link}" title="{$full_lastpost_subject}"><strong>{$lastpost_subject}</strong></a>
<br />{$lastpost_date} {$lastpost_time}<br />Last Post by: <span style="$mybb->usergroup['namestyle']">{$lastpost_profilelink}</span></span>

I have no idea what to do.

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Can anyone help?

Can anyone help me?

As format_name() is a PHP function, you need PHP to format it.

I know, I tried adding it directly to index.php

I just want to know how to get the user's formatted name. So that on the "Last Post", it display's the user's color, instead of the link color.

Like, is there a {$mybb->user['....']} or something for it?

I posted what parameters it takes, the username and the usergroup.

$formatted_name = format_name($mybb->user['username'], $mybb->user['usergroup']);

The variable will be different depending on where exactly it's being used though.