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!

[john7911]

Thank you

[LuisUrquilla]

I've been looking for something like this for ages. Thank you!! How is it that this never made it to Mod of the Month?

[ikymbo]

Originally Posted by Slipperyduck

vBulletin 4.2.2

When in the Admin panel I get the following:


Warning: Function eregi() is deprecated in ..../adminpanel/forum.php(248) : eval()'d code on line 12

^ I get one Warning for every icon created, ie. I have 19 Warnings and have 19 custom Icons

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I'm assuming its the Plugin Template : Forum Category Icons [Forum Manager Edit]

if($image != ".." && $image != "." && $image != "lock.png" && (eregi('\.(jpg|gif|png)$', $image)))

^ where the eregi function is depreciated?

I've changed mine to the following and it seems to work (I'm assuming - don't see a problem yet):

if($image != ".." && $image != "." && $image != "lock.png" && (preg_match('/\.(jpg|gif|png)$/i', $image)))

Work , thanks you bro !

[mikez006]

for people having issues with icons not showing up on subforums

open product-forumcategoryicons.xml

Find
$vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_forumbit_level1_post'] = str_replace($find1, $replace, $vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_forumbit_level1_post']);

Change "find1" to "find". Save, reupload and it'll work.

[onfranco]

hi . i have a problem with icon in sub forum . i dont know to solve the problem

icon ok in forum http://www.ricercaprofessionista.com/forum.php

but in sub forum not appears icons http://www.ricercaprofessionista.com...php?2-Economia

help me please

thx

[tbworld]

Please read through the thread, that subject has been covered a few times.

[billstelling]

What about here?

	$find1 = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = 

\'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('<img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_statusicon}/{vb:raw 

forum.imageprefix}forum_{vb:raw forum.statusicon}-48.png" class="forumicon" 

id="forum_statusicon_{vb:raw forum.forumid}" alt="" />

[billstelling]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

Nice idea...not sure how to implement it since developers that design skins, styles etc...put their status icons into different locations i.e. images/skin name/statusicon or cpstyles/skin name/statusicon. There is no consistency....
Anyone else looking for this feature?

I am.. I run multiple themes and it would be nice to see it call to a specific theme. Being able to set by theme would be a big plus. Also, would it be possible to code it so we can use it the same as the stock setup were you have forum_new-48 and forum_old-48.. I know I will get some +++++ing if they "cant tell if the forum has new posts or not.

Setting icon padding per forum would be nice as well, we can do size now but no way to center them all independently if using different sizes without coding it in manually. No biggy really, but it would be a nice addition to the mod.

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

One way is to move the icons to a folder under the statusicon folder and then set it in the forum manager per style/skin...let me think on this a bit.

I did that for it to make it easy for staff to do them without ftp. I use the icons folder for it and created a sub folder for them and other graphics. Works great doing it that way, being able to set for staff to up smilies opened the door to be able to do it with all graphics. All you have to do is edit for the path in the templates.

As the design admin for them I did not have ftp access(only the main site team has access) so I had to come up with a way to up graphics without having to bug the head office all the time. I did this theme using the icons folder for pretty much all its graphics. Most of the others I had already created before I updated the site to vb4 so only a few refinements for them there..

[onfranco]

no, dont work icon is sub forum .

this is ok = http://www.ricercaprofessionista.com/forum.php

this is not ok = http://www.ricercaprofessionista.com...php?2-Economia

www.ricercaprofessionista.com

i see other template modification in yours last post but dont do nothing

[billstelling]

Works fine for me. The bottom 2 are the default vB as I have yet to create a graphic for those categories yet.