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Catagory Icons · **Released**: 09-23-2006

Catagory Icons
Tested on 3.6.1
By Adrian at Development chat.com

Current Version: 1.0.1
1.0.1 Status: Working Fine.

Hey,

I noticed a few people around the 'net wanted a modification like this, It wasn't too hard so i thought i would give it ago.

You can specify a image path/url to use for your catagory icon, if none is specified, the forum will use vBulletins default image.
See bottom of post for screenshots

Installation
Import product-catagoryicons.xml (It should make the needed Mysql tables too)
Go to Options > Catagory Icons to enable the mod'.

Template Edits
Open Forum Home Templates > forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
Find:

HTML Code:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />

or

HTML Code:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

Replace with:

HTML Code:

<if condition="$vboptions[customimg_enabled] == 1">
	<if condition="$forum[customimg] == ''">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

<else />
		<img src="$forum[customimg]" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

<else />
	<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

Save.
Open up Forum Home Templates > forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
Find:

HTML Code:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />

or

HTML Code:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

Replace with:

HTML Code:

<if condition="$vboptions[customimg_enabled] == 1">
	<if condition="$forum[customimg] == ''">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

<else />
		<img src="$forum[customimg]" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

<else />
	<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

Done.

That should be it.

To set catagory icons, just edit a forum, the image field is at the bottom.
If you have any problems, just ask.

If you use it, please click install.

Thanks.

Adrian

D33mon · #**132** 04-20-2007, 02:59 AM

Put it in, worked great on the defualt template but didnt seem to like JJ's wow scheme. Aww well. Great job none the less! Looks great.

BadgerDog · #**133** 05-11-2007, 11:49 AM

Works very well.... :up:

Nice coding... thank you....

Regards,
Badger

BadgerDog · #**134** 05-12-2007, 05:27 PM

Question....

As I said it works great and users like them, but I've been getting one common complaint.

They form a permanent replacement and they circumvent the code used by vBulletin which replaces them with others, showing for example there's new posts in a forum to read.

Before we get too much further, I want to check and see if there's any way this code can be modfied and integrate better, so we can have icons that change with forum status.

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

SBlueman · #**135** 05-12-2007, 06:14 PM

It would be great if these could be more like forum icons and then we could keep the category icon which shows if there is a new post.

I have a similar setup on my phpbb site. Check out the index:

http://www.forums.gridironfans.com/index.php

BadgerDog · #**136** 05-13-2007, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SBlueman

It would be great if these could be more like forum icons and then we could keep the category icon which shows if there is a new post.

I have a similar setup on my phpbb site. Check out the index:

http://www.forums.gridironfans.com/index.php

Yup .... :up:

If there was a second "filename" field in the AdminCP entry for the forum (like the author did the present one), that could be used for an icon to represent a forum with NEW posts, that would work very well.

Thanks

Badger

Greek76 · #**137** 05-13-2007, 10:51 AM

On one of my templates the subforums are messed up they come out like this.

Attachment 64261

All my other templates it works good on except for this one. Any ideas?

BadgerDog · #**138** 05-13-2007, 02:40 PM

Uninstalled.....

Nice mod, but our members want the ability to show changes (ie: new posts etc.)

Thanks for the efforts though....

Regards,
Badger

tspepper · #**139** 05-28-2007, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Uninstalled.....

Nice mod, but our members want the ability to show changes (ie: new posts etc.)

Thanks for the efforts though....

Regards,
Badger

same complaint here.....

nymyth · #**140** 05-30-2007, 09:04 PM

how can one just add images next to each forum using this. I want to keep the category icons we have, but add another column next to it for unique icons for like sports...

Thanks.

sabrawy · #**141** 06-05-2007, 04:00 PM

thank u man keep it up , simple but great

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