{
    return SendPlayerMessageToAll(playerid, ColouredText(text)), 0;
}

stock ColouredText(text[])
{
    enum
        colorEnum
        {
            colorName[16],
            colorID[7]
        }
    ;
    new
        colorInfo[] [colorEnum]=
        {
            { "BLUE",           "1B1BE0" },
            { "PINK",           "E81CC9" },
            { "YELLOW",         "DBED15" },
            { "LIGHTGREEN",     "8CED15" },
            { "LIGHTBLUE",      "15D4ED" },
            { "RED",            "FF0000" },
            { "GREY",           "BABABA" },
            { "WHITE",          "FFFFFF" },
            { "ORANGE",         "DB881A" },
            { "GREEN",          "37DB45" },
            { "PURPLE",         "7340DB" }
        },
        string[(128 + 32)],
        tempString[16],
        pos = -1,
        x
    ;
    strmid(string, text, 0, 128, sizeof(string));

    for( ; x != sizeof(colorInfo); ++x)
    {
        format(tempString, sizeof(tempString), "#%s", colorInfo[x][colorName]);

        while((pos = strfind(string, tempString, true, (pos + 1))) != -1)
        {
            new
                tempLen = strlen(tempString),
                tempVar,
                i = pos
            ;
            format(tempString, sizeof(tempString), "{%s}", colorInfo[x][colorID]);

            if(tempLen < 8)
            {
                for(new j; j != (8 - tempLen); ++j)
                {
                    strins(string, " ", pos);
                }
            }
            for( ; ((string [i]!= 0) && (tempVar != 8)) ; ++i, ++tempVar)
            {
                string [i]= tempString[tempVar];
            }
            if(tempLen > 8)
            {
                strdel(string, i, (i + (tempLen - 8)));
            }
            x = -1;
        }
    }
    return string;
}