Default Pre-selected Post Icon

Here's a simple little hack that allows you, the Admin, to select a particular post icon that will be pre-selected when a member goes to post a new thread or new reply.

This is a bit different from the built-in option, "Show Default Post Icon" in the "Thread Display Options (showthread)" section, which only shows the icon you set if a message doesn't have an icon saved with it. I decided I would rather have a particular icon pre-selected when a member starts a new post, rather than displaying one later if no icon was selected.

This is a simple install: Download the XML file and add it as a product. No template edits, no uploads. That's it!

[JohnBee]

Is it possible to have the default icon appear for the first post only?

[Dream]

Thank you for this mod, just what I was looking for.

[jim doodle]

It's been a while since any one used this mod by the looks of things, I've updated it a little to work with multiple forums where adding each forum as a separate 'If' statement is unthinkable.

Instead i've exploded the string of parantlist which contains a strong of parent forum IDs into an array, and made a conditional from there:

Working Version 3.8.6

PHP Code:

$newparentarray= explode(',', $foruminfo[parentlist]);

if (in_array(146, $newparentarray)) {
    $newpost['iconid'] = '18'; 
}
else if (in_array(147, $newparentarray)) {
    $newpost['iconid'] = '19'; 
} 


And a little edit on the hook location it is "newthread_form_start" not forum.