Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Category Icons (Advanced)

This is a hack that will add icons to your forum categories on the forum home page.

History: I was the originator of this hack back in the vBulletin 1.x days and continued this in vb 3.7.x. I have had numerous requests to port this to vb 4.x.x so here you are.

Please click install if you want support for this mod and to encourage me to continue adding features!

Enjoy!

You can find nice icons here, here and here.

Thanks to LatinoCheats for this link.

Changelogs:

1.2.0:

• * Option to change icon location i.e. After Status Icon, Under Forum Title or Replace Status Icon.
  * Now contains a dropdown listing your icons in the folder so you just select and save.
  * Displays icon in forum manager when editing a forum that contains an icon.
  * Change icon width and height so you need to only upload one size icon.
  * Set icon position so you can center the icon when using smaller icons.
  * Dropdown of transparency settings for icons used to replace status icons when indicating "Old Posts".
  * Allows you to mark forum/subforum as read.
  * Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum).

1.2.1:

• * Now works for Mark Forum/SubForum as read!

1.2.2:

• * Fixed: template bug.
  * Added: Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum.)

1.2.3:

• * Added: Automatic Template Edits!
  * Added: Only jpg, gif and png icons allowed. (extensions checked in forum edit).
  * Fixed: Mark Forum Read for specific forum/subforum.
  * Fixed: Now shows non-transparent status icon when "Show Locks" is enabled.

1.2.4:

• * Fixed: Users Viewing. (This is working on a default vb style, others styles may have issues)
  * Fixed: Mark Read should now be fixed, working fine on my end.
  * Fixed: Icon not appearing when "Forum Description" disabled.

2.0.0

• * Icon size can be set either globally or set per forum, setting is in vb options.
  * When selecting an icon in forum manager the selected icon now shows to the right of the dropdown so you can see what you are selecting.
  * If your upgrading from 1.2.4 and had to do manual template edits then you will need to revert the templates and redo the edits.

Upgrades: For those upgrading just make sure when you import the product you select "Allow Overwrite". You will also need to revert your templates (only for users of version 1.2.2 or earlier) and then follow the instructions as outlined in the install.html file.

Note: Before you ask, yes this works with all browsers. (Tested on FF, IE8, IE7, Chrome, Safari and Opera)

IMPORTANT! If you use the "Auto Template" feature of this mod and it doesn't work then you MUST do the manual template edits outlined in the install.html. This plugin was created using a default vbulletin style.

If you like this mod than please nominate for "MOTM".

Donations are gladly accepted!

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by simonhind

this works for the current 4.0.5 version of vBulletin,

however i would like the subforum icons to be shown in forumdisplay/subforum, all subforums are showing the default subforum image as shown in the screenshot

this is where i want the images showing is it possible ?

Not with this mod yet but I will look into it for a future version.

Originally Posted by TazDevilLooney

Hi Dark Wizard,

Love hack you've made, Keep up the good work.

Is there anyway to change to main domain name?
I would like to serve the icons from a cookieless domain.

http://mysite.com/images/
to lets say
http://images.static.com/images/

Just need the icons served from another address if this is possiable.

Thankyou for your time.

Taz

Right now this works with bburl that you set in your options, I will look into this for a future version.

[TazDevilLooney]

Thankyou, Dark Wizard.

[TheSupportForum]

Thank you and hope you can do it

[Astyanax]

Is this MOD easy to update for the developer? Can we count with that this MOD will be updated for vBulletin 4.1?

[GONUMBER6]

I LOVE THIS!!!!

Check out what I am able to do with it for English Bulldog Rescue Organizations

I have only done 2 subforums so far, but soon I will have all the bullies needing rescue in their own subforums per rescue organization.

http://www.englishbulldognews.com/fo...-Adoption-Dogs

Great job on this mod!!! Nominated for MOTM

[mach_y]

Hi, I am running 4.0.5, and am having a small issue.
I installed it fine, created the folder, added icons, set the options, turned it on.
I then go to Forums & Moderators -> Forum Manager -> next to a forum click "GO" next to edit forum -> and on the forum edit page, there is no option to select what icon I want... any help?

Thanks!

[LuisManson]

any chance to mod this or ad a category icon option? like xda-developers does

[onehost]

Exactly what does this mod do? I know it has something to do
with categories and icons..does it allow you to place indidual icons on categories?

[LuisManson]

Originally Posted by onehost

Exactly what does this mod do? I know it has something to do
with categories and icons..does it allow you to place indidual icons on categories?

it does what you see in the screenshots

[bandare]

It says it installed flawlessly.... but I can't get any icons to show. I have added a folder, put in icons and then selected them for the various forums..... nothing shows on 4.0.6

UPDATE: I have a structure where I have a forum as a category and then a list of sub forum categories within there. It's letting me assign an image for that sub forum category that doesn't act as a forum but then has forums within that sub category. Those images are not showing but the actual forums underneath are. Any way to allow for images to show for sub forum categories? If I click to show the top level category only then I see the images but not if I want to see on the forum homepage

However, since installing I have found this error in my admincp since the install.

I only get the following showing at the top of the page in the admincp when I click on a specific forum to edit. Any thoughts? I am running 4.06

Warning: asort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in [path]/admincp/forum.php(240) : eval()'d code on line 21

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/admincp/forum.php(240) : eval()'d code on line 22