Forum Home Enhancements - Catagory Icons

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:

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

or

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

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

Replace with:

<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:

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

or

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

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

Replace with:

<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

[KURTZ]

some news about mine and domokun question?

[amitpatel_3001]

Its perfectly working at my board - http://www.seomeeting.com/index.php
Thanks
Amit

[TedR719]

Good info, will be using this soon.

[Terminatoronly]

good one installed

[michaelsilvia]

Works great on two of my sites.

http://www.sportstradercentral.com/forums.php
http://absolutehobbyist.com/forum.php (Just built today!)

[TedR719]

Originally Posted by domokun

Hi Adrian,

I used to have something like this installed for version 3.5.4 which looked like the attached image I have.

The image here was to the right of the status icon, thus allowing the users to know of new posts. After I upgraded to version 3.6.4, I found your hack, which works very nicely btw, but instead of being to the right of the status icons, it replaces the status icons.

Is there a way to make it so it's to the right, like I had before?

Many thanks,

~ Domokun

- Image below was the older one I used to have for 3.5.4 -

I would like to know as well but for the subforums.

this is what i found few pages back that will work on the main forum page

you need to edit
Forum Home Template > forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
look for...
<strong>$forum[title]</strong>
add before...
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/$forum[forumid].gif" align="absbottom" alt="" border="0" />

then upload the gifs to buttons folder (mine is under ~forum/images/themename/buttons/)
the filenames should match the forum id's(e.g 1.gif, 2.gif,..)

[Shazz]

Didn't work all that well for me =l

[tankaya61]

thanks

[girlboheme]

OH MY GOD. I'M A MORON :classic: Yes, I am I tried and tried to get this to work. I gave up. THEN, I saw a little something important.

Just reminder, folks, DON'T FORGET to switch the sucker ON in your Vbulletin Options at the top of admin :knockedout:

This is the most wonderful hack. I love it. Thank you.

[Funky Diver]

Sweet
Worked straight out of the box (so to speak)