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!

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

1.2.3 has just been released.

• * 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.

so we need to revert the postbit templates?

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

so we need to revert the postbit templates?

No just the forumhome_forumbit_level1_post & forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates as outlined in the install.html file.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

No just the forumhome_forumbit_level1_post & forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates as outlined in the install.html file.

ok, then what are the 'automatic templates'?

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

ok, then what are the 'automatic templates'?

"Auto Templates" means that the mod will do the edits for you so all you need to do is revert the templates back since you are using an older version, then select "Yes" to "Auto Templates" in the settings and it replaces the contents with what is needed in the templates through a plugin.

[Boofo]

Does it replace the whole template or just the code changes like in the install file?

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

"Auto Templates" means that the mod will do the edits for you so all you need to do is revert the templates back since you are using an older version, then select "Yes" to "Auto Templates" in the settings and it replaces the contents with what is needed in the templates through a plugin.

SIMPLY AWESOME!

ps. sorry for the previous post, i mean the forumhome templates not the postbit ...

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Does it replace the whole template or just the code changes like in the install file?

Orginally it was to replace the whole template but it only replaces what is needed as you see in the product xml file....

[KURTZ]

@ [name]Dark_Wizard[/name]: need an improvement (only for the 'after status icon' setting) if i need to put an rectangular image your product resizes it (example 48x48) i need an option that i can set forum by forum the width or the height of a single image ...

example: http://www.fniv.it/board/forum.php check the tekken6 image, originally is rectangular ...

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

@ [name]Dark_Wizard[/name]: need an improvement (only for the 'after status icon' setting) if i need to put an rectangular image your product resizes it (example 48x48) i need an option that i can set forum by forum the width or the height of a single image ...

example: http://www.fniv.it/board/forum.php check the tekken6 image, originally is rectangular ...

In the options you can set the size in width and height and the default value is 48x48 pixels.

As for forum by forum not sure I really want to do that now as it would require more coding and forcing anyone wanting to update to make changes again...if it's a big request then I will do it.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

In the options you can set the size in width and height and the default value is 48x48 pixels.

As for forum by forum not sure I really want to do that now as it would require more coding and forcing anyone wanting to update to make changes again...if it's a big request then I will do it.

i know mate, but i think this is an huge request that allow us to have a more flexible images input ...