The idea came to me as one online-friend of mine has a habit of posting all his posts with same colour on a certain forum. We had previously talked how it would be cool if vBulletin (in this case) would have option to save a "post template" which it would automatically load to textarea everytime a new reply or thread is posted.
Well as it is not implemented on the server side, why not do it clientside! What you may have not realized is that "bookmark toolbar" or "personal bar" bookmarks (the links usually at the top of your browser window, below location field) can be used quite similarly as links on an html-page. And thus can be used to execulte Javascript.
So simply create a new "personal bar" (or whatever, depending on your browser) link and paste one of the following codes into the "location" field. And naturally make your changes before saving it.
This is for vBulletin:
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javascript: window.document.vbform.message.value='[color=Burlywood]'+window.document.vbform.message.value+'[/color]';window.stop();
For phpBB:
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javascript: window.document.post.message.value='[color=Burlywood]'+window.document.post.message.value+'[/color]';window.stop();
And for Invision:
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javascript: window.document.REPLIER.Post.value='[color=Burlywood]'+window.document.REPLIER.Post.value+'[/color]';window.stop();
Even if you are not familiar with javascript you can probably understand what these scripts fo. they simply add "" in front and "" after the contents of the message.
Naturally you can change the contents anyway you want to make it add any tags and text you want there. For example some ASCII art would be quite neat at the beginning or end of all your posts.
For those who do not know JS: you can use '\n' to make line change and '\t' for tabulation.
One annoying thing about this is that, if you want to use same template for different forums using different forums software you will have to have separate links for each. One way to get around this could be writing a script that checks which elements exists and adds the template to the one that's real.
Hopefully someone will find this useful.
and can make my forum more customizable... and flexible... or wadever it is... could u explain the steps in detail? 