User Icons

[Dark Jim]

Current version: 1.2.1 (Last updated:4/30/03)
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New features/fixes since the last update:
- Optimized code so it uses much less queries on private.php.
- Added instructions I forgot for private.php.
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With this hack members have icons next to their name in posts, announcements, private messages, on the who's online and on the forumdisplay page. Users can use a public icon list or upload their own icon just like avatars. They can also choose to not display icons in the user cp. Administrators have various icon options exactly like with avatars.

This is based upon the mini avatars hack but I liked it more if it was exactly like how avatars are handled. A whole lot of the code is a copy from the avatar code except all variables are changed and only a few other changes/additions. But I wrote a full instruction for your convenience. :D

You can see it in action here: http://forums.thegaminguniverse.com.

Screenshots
Screenshot of icons on the who's online on index.php. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347587)
Screenshot of icons on the who's online on online.php. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347588)
Screenshot of icons in the posts on showthread.php (also in private messages and announcements). (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347589)
Screenshot of icons on the thread list on forumdisplay.php. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347591)
Screenshot of the edit icon option in your user cp. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347592)
Screenshot of icon options in the admin cp under. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347593)

[Dark Jim]

Screenshot of icons on the who's online on index.php.

[Dark Jim]

Screenshot of icons on the who's online on online.php.

[Dark Jim]

Screenshot of icons in the posts on showthread.php (also in private messages and announcements).

[Dark Jim]

Screenshot of icons on the thread list on forumdisplay.php.

[Dark Jim]

Screenshot of the edit icon option in your user cp.

[Dark Jim]

Screenshot of icon options in the admin cp under.

[Dark Jim]

I will make the instructions for a store integration soon (I already have it in my own store).

[Vivi Ornitier]

nice hack man. Do u have likea page or somethin full of cool icons that we can use. My smilies and post icons are weak

[Dark Jim]

Not really. I just uploaded a buch of smilies to the public icon list. But I'll look for it sometime.

[Vivi Ornitier]

OMG!! ++++in a. This is the BIGGEST hack i've ever installed. The instructures took me at least an hour . . . . damn it's like 20 pages. God i don't even wanna know how long that took u to write Dark J .. . anywas, GREAT JOB!

[Vivi Ornitier]

Hey i'm having a problem. I installed the hack but then when i go into edit options and click the button, it just goes to a blank page. somethin wrong wit member.php?

[Vivi Ornitier]

oh wait my bad i didn't add any of the templates

[Dark Jim]

You mean totally blank? Did you add all templates because it must be a template is missing. I will check if I included all templates.

Edit: Ok so it was a missing template.
Originally posted by Vivi Ornitier
OMG!! ++++in a. This is the BIGGEST hack i've ever installed. The instructures took me at least an hour . . . . damn it's like 20 pages. God i don't even wanna know how long that took u to write Dark J .. . anywas, GREAT JOB!
Well it took a lot of time looking up all avatar code in all files, copying it and modifying it, making some more changes where neccesssary, adding some more stuff.... but like I said a whole lot of the code is almost exactly like that avatar code, I didn't write it from scratch. :confused:

[Vivi Ornitier]

okay the icon isn't showing up anywhere in my forums except for the announcements. I't snot goin on in index.php and not online.php or forumdisplay.php

if ($loggedin['usergroupid'] == 6 and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "$iconavatar<b><i><font color=red>$loggedin[username]</font></i></b>"; // Color for Admin

That's my little code for the colors for admin part. I have the color online hack.

I'm on 2.2.6 and this code is NOT in index.php

} else {
$username = $loggedin[username];
}

[Dark Jim]

Did you set to show icons for you in your user cp. I forgot to include these queries in the instructions.

ALTER TABLE user CHANGE options options smallint(6) NOT NULL default '31';

UPDATE user SET options=options+16;

I have 2.2.7 but no default installation of it anymore. I will look at a default 2.2.9.

Edit: I see the code is:
} else {
$username = $loggedin['username'];
}
Change that to
} else {
$username = "$iconavatar$loggedin[username]";
}

[Vivi Ornitier]

ahhh those queries made the difference. I still didn't see the index.php code but it's good it works, now i gotta find some pics, can u just give me the ones ur using? i need smaller pics.

[Dark Jim]

Also in announcement.php step 2.3 should be:

2.3. Below that add:
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if ($post[iconavatarid]!=0) {
$iconavatarurl=$post[iconavatarpath];
} else {
if ($post[hascustomiconavatar] and $iconavatarenabled) {
$iconavatarurl="iconavatar.php?userid=$post[userid]&dateline=$post[iconavatardateline]";
} else {
$iconavatarurl="";
}
}
if ($iconavatarurl=="") {
$post[iconavatar]="";
} elseif ($bbuserinfo[userid]>0 and !($bbuserinfo[showiconavatars])) {
$post[iconavatar]="";
} else {
eval("\$post[iconavatar] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_iconavatar")."\";");
}
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I assume you had icons set to not display and becauase I forgot the red line it still displayed there. I will update the instructions.

[Dark Jim]

And the icons on my public icon list are some of my smilies which you can find here: at the bottom (http://www.darkproject.com/Icons/Icons.htm). You willl need to ask permission though and link to the site like I did and is done on this site. The others you may see are custom icons.

[alkatraz]

Great idea!

[Vivi Ornitier]

hey u should add an option where ppl can upload their pics or just simply link it from another destination, that would be the best way.

[Dark Jim]

Huh? People can already upload icons if they have enough posts. You may need to enable upload and lower the number of required posts under vBulletin Options.

[EchoHype.com]

Hey Dark Jim,

Can you set this to be like........only the admins/supermods/mods choose who can have the little pic thing next to their name or what not.

IE: If the staff decides that "bobberman46" was the member of the week, they can enable him to have the "member of the week icon thing" next to his username. But no other user on the forum can do so?

[Vivi Ornitier]

Dark J: I dont' see the options in my vbulletin options. It's just for avatars, nothign else.

[Dark Jim]

Originally posted by EchoHype.com
Hey Dark Jim,

Can you set this to be like........only the admins/supermods/mods choose who can have the little pic thing next to their name or what not.

IE: If the staff decides that "bobberman46" was the member of the week, they can enable him to have the "member of the week icon thing" next to his username. But no other user on the forum can do so?
I could probably but I only release hacks that I use myself, sorry.

Originally posted by Vivi Ornitier
Dark J: I dont' see the options in my vbulletin options. It's just for avatars, nothign else.
Odd. Check your database. What is the last row in the table settinggroup? And what is the last row in the table setting?

[Dean C]

Looks like one of these nice hacks again ;)

Good job buddy *thumbs up*

- miSt

[Vivi Ornitier]

Dark J: THe last table is the Upload options choice.

[Dark Jim]

Hmm I don't think so. Run this query:

SELECT * FROM settinggroup LIMIT 0, 40;

and tell me then what the last row is from settinggroup. Is it "Who's online" with settinggroupid "31"?

[Erwin]

Well done, Dark Jim! :) I've done a similar thing based on the mini-avatars hack, but mine's mainly template-based. :) Good job!

[Dark Jim]

So noone else had problems installing it?

[Vivi Ornitier]

I just still can't see the upload your own options.

Upload optiosn is #30, there is no 31

[Dark Jim]

Upload is #30 yes but there should at least be a #31 (Who's online) which is with a default installation of vBulletin.

See the picture (attachment). Note that row #32 is another hack I installed and row #33 is the icon hack.

Now could you export the data of the tables setting and settinggroup and attach the files to a reply? In your admin cp just go to "back up database" and only set the tables setting and settinggroup to "yes", then click "do backup". Post that file here and I'll check it.

[Dark Jim]

I forgot to include the step that says you need to edit the postbit template to include icons in your posts. Here it is:

18.3 postbit
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Put $post[iconavatar] whereever you want the icon to appear in a post. I suggest putting it left or right next to the member's name.
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Attachment updated.

[Vivi Ornitier]

30 tables only, no who's online

Why woudl the who's onlinet hing matter anyway?

And also i can't upload my table because it won't allow me to upload .sql files

[Vivi Ornitier]

actually, i just opened up my settinggroup.sql file in editpad and it shows the #31 who's online table along wit 40 others. I just don't see that option in phpadmin for some reason . . . that's odd

[Vivi Ornitier]

here it is

[Dark Jim]

Well that's really odd. It should work. :confused: I just tested it again on a default board and even after changing the id and display order to whatever it showed up. The instructions can't be wrong or incomplete either since you don't need to do anything else besides inserting some data in those 2 tables. If anyone else knows what's wrong please assist but I have no idea. :ermm:

Edit: Well I tested it by putting the stuff exactly like you have it. Well look at the attached pic, the category does show up. And I added a row in the table setting with settinggroupid 37 and it showed up too.

[Vivi Ornitier]

hmmmm . . .give me the exact edits and queries that went along wit getting that option to be in the vbulletin options page.

[Dark Jim]

Uh I just ran the same query as you did for the table settinggroup. Which is

INSERT INTO settinggroup VALUES('37', 'User Icons', '32');

This should be fine. Now run the following queries:

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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Enable User Icons', 'iconavatarenabled', '1', 'Use this option to enable/disable the overall use of usericons.<br><br>User icons are small images displayed next to usernames in thread display, the who\'s online and user info pages.', 'yesno', 1);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Minimum custom posts', 'iconavatarcustomposts', '1000000', 'Minimum number of posts that a user required before they can specify a custom user icon for use.', '', 2);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Allow uploads', 'iconavatarallowupload', '1', 'Allow user to upload their own custom user icon if they have enough posts?', 'yesno', 3);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Allow website uploads', 'iconavatarallowwebsite', '1', 'Allow user to upload their own custom user icon from another website if they have enough posts?', 'yesno', 4);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Maximum Dimensions', 'iconavatarmaxdimension', '16', 'Maximum width and height (in pixels) that the custom user icon image can be.', '', 5);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Maximum File Size', 'iconavatarmaxsize', '2000', 'The maximum file size (in bytes) that an avatar can be.\r\n\r\n1 KB = 1024 bytes\r\n1 MB = 1048576 bytes', '', 6);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Display Height', 'numiconavatarshigh', '10', 'How many rows of user icons do you wish to display to the user when selecting an user icon?', '', 7);
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INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL, 37, 'Display Width', 'numiconavatarswide', '10', 'How many columns of user icons do you wish to display to the user when selecting an user icon?', '', 8);
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[Vivi Ornitier]

oh dude! it worked

The option was there and it seemed that the custom posts needed was set to like 100000

GREAT JOB!!

[Dark Jim]

O_o Uhm ok I'll change the default to 100 or something. Yeah I set it too that number because I want memebers to buy custom icons with points. I will release the store integrated version soon.

Edit: Updated the instructions with step 19 that says you need to create a folder avataricons in your images folder.

[Dark Jim]

I added the icons in the user profile (getinfo template) and memberlist (memberlist template). Instructions updated and in my first post you can see how to upgrade from 1.0 to this.

Also if you installed this and like it, please click the install button in this thread.

[007]

wow... i took one look at the install text file and this is definately the longest hack i have seen. before i go through all this work though, i have to know, has anyone had any problems with this in 2.2.9? also, hypothetically speaking.. IF i did have problems, would the fact that i just added all these queries to my db slow anything down or is there a way to undo them? thanks in advance. :beard:

[Dark Jim]

The database changes can be easily undone. You just need to delete the tables and rows that were added. And if you leave them it shouldn't matter either.

[Erwin]

Be aware that each icon.php image shown is 1 database query. :) It all adds up. On your forumhome, if you have 50 users with icons, that is 50 extra db queries (that won't show up in microstats by the way). I had a variation of this hack running for a while, but had to remove it because of the server strain.

[Dark Jim]

Hmm I didn't think of that. If it is really becoming a problem then you can either remove it from the forum index or set the post requirement high so only really postaholics get custom icons. :)

[Dark Jim]

This hack works on vBulletin 2.3.0. I also made a store integration which you can find here: http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index.php?s=&action=showhack&hackid=974.

[Dark Jim]

Can someone PLEASE help me with reducing the queries? :( I have no idea how. It needs optimising in forumdisplay.php, index.php, memberlist.php and online.php.

[007]

Just wondering, do NORMAL avitars also add one query each?? If not maybe you could try to copy how the avatar idea works, since this is basically the exact same thing only a smaller file, and inserted in a different place... That probably means avatars also add query's though huh.. I never really understood why it was so bad to have a lot of query's?? Does it use a lot more bandwith or something? What happens?

[Dark Jim]

Normal avatars do not add a query each but neither do the icons in showthread.php, announcement.php and private.php. The icons did add a query each on forumdisplay.php, index.php, memberlist.php and online.php.

However they do not anymore with the exception of online.php as I still haven't figured that one out. I just updated the hack to 1.2 which gets rid of all those extra queries. For example my memberlist.php had 39 queries on one page, after optimising it only 12. :D

So everyone who uses this, you should really update.

[007]

I was waiting for you to update it before I installed. :) THANKS! This hack is awesome. I knew you could do it ;)

I would have offered my advice, but the only hacking I know how to do is if/else statements so far. (lol) :ermm:

[Dark Jim]

Small update. Please redo step 7.1 in the instructions. Without this fix, when you click on a member in the memberlist, it will show an error that the user does not exist. Everything else should work fine now. I hope I can optimise online.php soon, I think that is the only thing left. But the most important pages are done. Please click the install button if you use this hack. :)

[007]

Maaaaan, I have been doing this for over an hour now and I'm up to 12.1.... *sigh* LONG hack! I can;t even immagine how long it took you to make it Jim... :) Wow.

One thing I noticed on 12.1 is that you included "msn" in the list. I have this installed buy others might not. You might want to point that out. ;)

[007]

there, finished. One thing I noticed in online.php is:

else {
$userinfo["$key"]['username'] = $user[username]$iconavatar;
}
should be
else {
$userinfo["$key"]['username'] = "$user[username]$iconavatar";
}

with the quotes. Otherwise it comes up with a parse error.

[Dark Jim]

Oh I did that but apparently not in the instructions. :ermm: Will fix this.

Edit: Hmm it was in the instructions:
9.5. Find:
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} else {
$userinfo["$key"]['username'] = $user[username];
}
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9.5. Replace that with:
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} else {
$userinfo["$key"]['username'] = "$iconavatar$user[username]";
}
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Save and close online.php.
Updated to remove the msn thing.

[corsacrazy]

any way to just show icons if they are a donating member so therefore i can just have a default donation icon ?

[sabret00the]

hi this is a good hack but i only want it to display the icon in the showthread, announcement and my welcome panel, would i be ok to only make the changes to the index, showthread, global and announcement files?

[sabret00the]

has dark jim vanished?

[Dark Jim]

03-14-03 at 01:34 PM corsacrazy said this in Post #56 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=366011#post366011)
any way to just show icons if they are a donating member so therefore i can just have a default donation icon ?
Well you could set the posts requirements to use a custom icon to 10000000, have no public icons and add user icons in the admin cp for donating members. If you want to do it otherwise it requires more hacking.

03-17-03 at 01:56 PM sabret00the said this in Post #57 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=367983#post367983)
hi this is a good hack but i only want it to display the icon in the showthread, announcement and my welcome panel, would i be ok to only make the changes to the index, showthread, global and announcement files?
You can skip some files such as memberlist.php, online.php and some more yes. Files such as global.php, admin/functions.php, member.php are required.

[sabret00the]

thanks dude, i'll give it a try

[sabret00the]

okies this is working just liek i wanted but the thing now is, can i enlarge the icon size at all?

[Dark Jim]

Yes, you can set the maximum size under vBulletin Options -> User Icons. :)

See here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347593)

[Dan]

Works nice.....

/me licks an orange flavored install button

[Dan]

i did everything it told me in the install file and now i get this

-points to ss-

[Dark Jim]

Huh? What is the url of that broken image and what is the url to the image that should have showed up?

[Dan]

its pointing to /forums//images/ as the image and its /forums/images/announce.gif

[Dark Jim]

This step:
3.2. Find:
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if ($announcement[startdate]>$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]) {
$announcement[icon]='newannounce.gif';
} else {
$announcement[icon]='announce.gif';
}
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3.2. Below that add:
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if ($announcement[iconavatarpath]!="") {
$iconavatarurl=$announcement[iconavatarpath];
} else if ($announcement['hascustomiconavatar']) {
$iconavatarurl="iconavatar.php?userid=$announcement[userid]&dateline=$iconavatarinfo[dateline]";
} else {
$iconavatarurl='';
}

if ($iconavatarurl!="") {
$iconavatar = "<img src=\"$iconavatarurl\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">";
} else {
$iconavatar = "";
}
if ($bbuserinfo[userid]>0 and !($bbuserinfo[showiconavatars])) {
$iconavatar = "";
}
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Are you sure you added the code below the part you needed to find and not replaced it?

[Dan]

ah thats it I must have replaced it by accident thank you

[DigitalDesktops]

I having problems with this hack. The User Icons only appear in member.php. It doesn't appear anywhere else. I've tried to install it twice but it still won't show up. I edited all the templates, and i followed the instructions, but its still not working. I'm using 2.3.0
Does any anyone know how i can fix this? Thanks in Advance.

Here's all the files I edited.

[Dark Jim]

I noticed you forgot to do step 19.4a. Under edit options in your user cp I didn't notice the option to show or not show icons. Do that step, set the option to "yes" and then see if the icons show up.

[sabret00the]

03-25-03 at 08:44 PM Dark Jim said this in Post #62 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=373206#post373206)
Yes, you can set the maximum size under vBulletin Options -> User Icons. :)

See here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=347593)
sorry jim i was being dumb, got excited before even checking it over properly

[DigitalDesktops]

Today at 10:51 AM Dark Jim said this in Post #70 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=374470#post374470)
I noticed you forgot to do step 19.4a. Under edit options in your user cp I didn't notice the option to show or not show icons. Do that step, set the option to "yes" and then see if the icons show up.

It shows up in Who's Online, member.php, memberlist.php, forumdisplay.php.

But it doesn't show up in showthread.php, and private.php.

[Dark Jim]

I updated this again. I had a few 100 private messsages and it caused a few 100 queries too. Now I changed it to not use any additional queries. :) Everyone who uses this hack I suggest you redo step 10. I also added a step I forgot to add the whole time so your icons would never show up in private messages. The only thing I can think of that still needs to be done is optimize online.php.

[kevinnguyen]

this is the longest hack i've ever done
very nice thoe
thanx

[Dark Jim]

The last update is not working right. While it does reduce the queries, the icons are not showing correctly or not at all. Other than that it works fine. I'll need to figure out how to get this working sometime. Help is appreciated. I also need to optimize the code for online.php.

[MrNase]

Hey, i got a problem :(

iam using the 2.3.0, i installed it and i shows up everything correctly but not at the index.php :(

This is my original-code:

if ($loggedin['usergroupid'] == 6 and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b><i>$loggedin[username]</i></b>";
} else if (($mod["$userid"] or $loggedin['usergroupid'] == 5) and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b>$loggedin[username]</b>";
} else {
$username = $loggedin['username'];
}

and this is my current code:

if ($loggedin['usergroupid'] == 6 and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "$iconavatar<b><i>$loggedin[username]</i></b>";
} else if (($mod["$userid"] or $loggedin['usergroupid'] == 5) and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "$iconavatar<b>$loggedin[username]</b>";
} else {
$username = "$iconavatar$loggedin[username]";
}


the problem is: the icon isn't shown up by a mod... Normal User and admin works fine, even the mod at the online.php works fine, but there is NO icon for a mod at the index.php... what have i done wrong?

I downloaded the 1.2.1, did you change that number after fixing the instructions?


now, the part in the index.php looks like this, but the icon is shown up by a normal only... but iam the admin and iam the only one with an icon ;)

if ($loggedin['usergroupid'] == 6 and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b><i>$loggedin[username]</i></b>";
} else if (($mod["$userid"] or $loggedin['usergroupid'] == 5) and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b>$loggedin[username]</b>";
} else {
$username = $loggedin['username'];
}

[MrNase]

no one :(

now, it is not shown up by the moderator group...

demo @ www.sportboard.de (german ;))

[Dark Jim]

That piece of code appears twice in index.php. Did you make changes to both?

[MrNase]

ah i think iam blind or there is something missing in your instruction ;)
you have to place $iconavatar just before <b>$loggedin[username]</b> also (2 times in index.php) :)

I didn't see that in your instruction and i forgot to include but now i added it and it works, thanks for that beautiful hack, my users like it :)

*clicking install*

[sabret00the]

i've enjoyed using this with vb2, are there any plans to port to vb3?

[NuclioN]

Yes hoping this will be ported over :) Would be nice

[Dark Jim]

I haven't looked at this thread since my last reply...

I gave it a try 6 months ago on VB3 RC something but got stuck. I definitely want this for VB3. :) Maybe I'll give it another try this week. The instructions will probably be huge again, every file that has code related to avatars will need changing and more files. I don't even want to think about templates and phrases. :eek:

[sabret00the]

i'll only install mine on profile.php, private.php, showpost.php and showthread.php (probably want it for vBjournal and Link's shoutbox hack too). not to mention integration with the store but it's very exciting, thank you for taking the time Jim and good luck :)

[NuclioN]

Hope you will find the time and inspiration to port this great hack. ;)