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!

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by sevenmix

Hi

This works great thanks, but i have a little problem, on categorys there are no icons, so it appears an invalid one, like this:



Do you know a solution for that?

Are you saying that when you do not have an icon specified for a forum you are getting the error symbol? If that is the case then simply create an icon for the forum or change the code and add an IF statement that only displays the icon if an icon is specified for the forum.

[eazygreek]

this not work to me :-/

[Tibiaspy]

Originally Posted by Tibiaspy

Everything works fine except one thing:



The upper part is what I should get, the lower part is what I get. I see information about users viewing thread in wrong place - it should be right beside forum title instead it's in front of description.

Anyone have any idea what to do?

Anybody?

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by Tibiaspy

Anybody?

Looks like you may have a line break in there somewhere.

Check the templates

forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

and scan for {vb:rawphrase viewing}

See if you have any line breaks like <br> before {vb:rawphrase viewing}

It could also be a </span> or </div> ending tag in the wrong place. There's a number of things that could be causing this.

[Tibiaspy]

Originally Posted by Disco_Stu

Looks like you may have a line break in there somewhere.

Check the templates

forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

and scan for {vb:rawphrase viewing}

See if you have any line breaks like <br> before {vb:rawphrase viewing}

It could also be a </span> or </div> ending tag in the wrong place. There's a number of things that could be causing this.

Thanks for tips I checked and there are no line breaks before that phrase.

I have category icon after status icon enabled so this is the part of the code that's responsible for that:

<div class="forumdata">
<div class="datacontainer">
<vb:if condition="$vbulletin->options['forumiconimg_location'] == '0'">
<!-- category icon after status icon -->
<img src="images/{vb:raw vboptions.forumiconimg_folder}/{vb:raw forum.forumiconimg}" alt="{vb:raw forum.title}" style="float:left; <vb:if condition="$vbulletin->options['forumiconimg_margin_location'] == '1' OR $vbulletin->options['forumiconimg_margin_location'] == '3'">margin:{vb:raw vboptions.forumiconimg_margin};<vb:else />margin-right:4px;</vb:if> <vb:if condition="$vbulletin->options['forumiconimg_size'] == '1'">width:{vb:raw forum.forumiconimg_forum_width}px; height:{vb:raw forum.forumiconimg_forum_height}px;<vb:else />width:{vb:raw vboptions.forumiconimg_width}px; height:{vb:raw vboptions.forumiconimg_height}px;</vb:if>;" />
<div>
<h2 style="font-weight:bold; font-size:13px;"><a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw forum}}">{vb:raw forum.title}</a></h2>
<vb:if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="viewing">({vb:raw forum.browsers} {vb:rawphrase viewing})</span></vb:if>						
<vb:if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><p>{vb:raw forum.description}</p></vb:if>
</div>
<vb:elseif condition="$vbulletin->options['forumiconimg_location'] == '1'" />

In default style we have:

<div class="titleline">
<h2 class="forumtitle"><a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw forum}}">{vb:raw forum.title}</a></h2>
<vb:if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="viewing">({vb:raw forum.browsers} {vb:rawphrase viewing})</span></vb:if>
</div>

When I changed that <h2 style="font-weight:bold; font-size:13px;"> to <h2 class="forumtitle"> I got it almost working because then it was like this:
Forum_name Browsing Forum_description

I couldn't get that forum_description to a new line. So after that h2 style=forumtitle I did something like this:
<vb:if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><p>{vb:raw forum.description}</p></vb:if>

Changed to this:
<vb:if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><br><br><p>{vb:raw forum.description}</p></vb:if>

It kinda works - description is in next line but it doesn't look good. I had to add <br> 2 times because if there was only one it didn't worked. It was little lower but not in a completely new line. When there are two <br> it is in new line but there is also a lot of space between forum title and forum description. It doesn't look that good.

Now it looks like this:

<div>
<h2 class="forumtitle"><a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw forum}}">{vb:raw forum.title}</a></h2>
<vb:if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="viewing">({vb:raw forum.browsers} {vb:rawphrase viewing})</span></vb:if>
<vb:if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><br><br><p>{vb:raw forum.description}</p></vb:if>
</div>

Any ideas how to make it right?

[DeadApe]

So I installed this mod about a year ago and its a great mod. Now I'm having a problem because I want to create a new style for my website. I like to have multiple styles so that users can pick the one they like the most. But I need to be able to create different category icons for each style I make.

Is there a way to do this?

[Chadi]

Is this possible on mobile skins too?

[pmcpa]

Have this installed, looks great, works on all the forums EXCEPT categories, no matter what I select for the Forum/SubForum Category Icon option.

What line should I look for in my skins to enable?

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Originally Posted by pmcpa

Have this installed, looks great, works on all the forums EXCEPT categories, no matter what I select for the Forum/SubForum Category Icon option.

What line should I look for in my skins to enable?

It doesn't work for the main set category it just shows icons for the forums...

[john7911]

Hi,
It does not work for me


I am using 4.2.2
What I have to do?
Thank you