multiFicons - easily have a different status icons for forums
 

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Installation Time: <1 mins
Products: 1 VB Version: 3.6.7

v1.01

• cleaned up plugin code, less stressful on server

Example:
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[live demo] [screen shot]

Description:
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this will let you specify what forums you would like to have a custom icon for. There are no template edits or file edits. All you need to do is specify the forum ID's in the vb section section.

Installation:

• Install product
• Edit settings in vb settings section
• After you will need to make the icons they need to follow this pattern:
  • ID_forum_old.gif
  • ID_forum_new.gif
  • or if the forum is a link then: ID_forum_link.gif

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reserved just because :P

seems pretty cool :D

yea, i had fun on this one :D

looks neat. reserved

They don't work with forum_link.gif

might add it. Buts its a totally diff template location.

It would be nice to have because my arcade and galleries etc are all links and those icons tend to be the shabbiest ones in themes.

hmm, when i got spare time ill work on adding that.

haha, actually it already can do it all you need to do is enter the link forum id and use this as the image name:

ID_forum_link.gif

Awesome hack, CS! Thank you very much. :D

Sounds good. Does it also work with vbSeo? Couldn't make it work.

Fränk

im running vbseo 3.0 gold and vb 3.6.7

works fine for me

can you take a screen shot and point an arrow to what icons it can change, and where do you set what icon you would like to change those icons to, im confused lol

EXAMPLE SITE: [here]

THINGS YOU CAN CHANGE: [here]


its explained in the Description/Installation, you make new status icons and you upload them to your styles statusicons folder.

I get the following error when installing:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/ww2admin/public_html/forum/includes/functions_forumlist.php(350) : eval()'d code on line 2

I'm running the latest version of VB.

Doesn't work on my Exaltic Theme.

I'm pretty sure that error is not because of this hack @ installation, because theres no need to call forumlist.php when installing a plug in.

well there are alot of manual edits.

So you could just change your status icon html line to the vb default, not sure what your current code is but you should replace the TD with this one:

forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

That got it! Thanks.

i just really wanted to avoid template edits lol :P

What's the correct procedure for installing this hack? I went to MANAGE PRODUCTS. Is that the right way? This is the first time I've done this and my forum is: www.ww2incolor.com/forum

Thanks.

yea you installed it correctly

Ok I went to support and they said this:

"That is either a problem with an exiusting add-on (although I know you said you don't have one) or a problem with the add-on you are trying to install.

You will need to contact the author of that add-on for assistance with this."

Well I'm stumped. Oh well, I just won't install this. Thanks for the try.

you will need to go into your config.php and at the bottom of it. Then install my addon, or remove the one that caused the problem.

while working on other products i realized how stressful this hack can be the way i coded it.

if you had like 30 forums with icons it would create an if statement for each one of the, it worked but it was like a dumb method. In 1.01 it just matches to an array.

Somehow this doesn't work for me, i'm running 3.6.7, and I've checked that the template is in it's original state, I've activated the mod under vbulletin options and added one forumid to test with, furthermore I've uploaded some images in the correct directory I believe, but if they are not in the correct directory, would it show up as a broken image or as the original icon? because i'm not exactly sure what's causing the problem.

well if your seeing a broken image its the location of your images. If not and your seeing the normal icon on the forum ID you set, then its not working.

make sure its in your styles statusicon folder.

It might be nice to add support for "$forum['parentid']".. Maybe the way you've done this already achieves this, but what I'm referring to is allowing all forums under one category ID to have a different icon than all the forums under another category ID.

This would help a lot so that people don't have to type out every single forum id if they want their different categories to have different icons. It also helps when adding new child forums, this way you don't have to go into the settings and add a new ID every time.

I've added it to my http://www.closeprotectionworld.co.uk

Its only appearing on the first forum although I have selected 2

Can anyone help?

I found the fault!!

When you add the forums you want, use 1,2,3, (note the comma at the end - the example shows a full stop which is incorrect)

Have you got manual style update instructions? This doesn't work on my forum and I think it's because of the modified style I have.

UPDATE: Please ignore - fixed now!

I've added this to a new forum using 3.68 however it wont show the images at all.

Any advice?

bad a$$

Hi are you ever going to code this so that it allowed for multiple skin support? Like different icon colors per skin choosen.

EDIT: LOl got it.

Same here it's not working on 3.6.8.

3.6.8 here, not working either!

Hey thanks for the good hack ;)

But not work in 3.7 beta3 VB version.

Little modification in attachements joint in the post, and work fine vb 3.7 :)

what program to i open it up with?

where do you enter the image info?

got it working on 3.6.8 , like someone mentioned just make sure you enter a (,) after each forum you would like to use on the settings.