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

[MediaHound]

Installed, works great, thanks!

[malluroses]

Hai can anyone tell me what is going on with my styles

everytime i upload a style it comes up like this




i dont know wt to do can someone please help me with this


this is happend after installing this category icon mod please help

it happens every time i upload it

[nyunyu]

found out that the option is slightly different from the snapshot.
running on 3.6.8 PL2, working great.Thanks

[iulianh]

Thanks, it works fine !

[WarDoGG]

How can i have the catagory icons display the alternate text of the forum name ?

That would be really great for SEO .

[angeldevil]

i cant see: "Put the url of the image to be your category icon" in my forum manager.
(i dont see this table, put link images)
Plz help me.
Thx!

[Hoffi]

Just wait for 3.7 - in the Beta is this implemented.

[jschvili]

So simple and still so brilliant! I have one wish though. Is it possible to make the pictures link to the same as the forum name? Web visitors is use to click on pictures.

Thanks again! You make the world spin.

This is how I used the hack:
http://www.elproffset.se

[garala]

Installed!

How does it look? Admin-Lounge

[admin0]

This worked great in 3.6.x
I upgraded to 3.7 and its not working anymore.
Waiting for this mod to hit 3.7