View Post Icons As Drop-Down

Requested At : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&postid=335209

This hack allows the administrator to change the display of message icons in the post new thread and reply screens so that you select one from a drop-down box as opposed to using radio buttons. A preview image to the right displays the currently selected icon.

This can be toggled via the admin control panel and I will post screenshots in a minute.

This is designed for vBulletin Version 2.2.9, although that's not a choice on the version field, the script will not run on an older version, although you can override the saftey feature if you really want to install it on a different version.

Be sure to run the install script in your admin directory.

Edit :
Revision 2 is now avilable. This adds the new display for the edit screen and the private message screen.

[damicatz]

Ok I fixed the instructions.

As for the alphabetical order part :
You'd have to use a sort command, I belive that would be in the database query itself although I'm not entirely sure, I'm still a biy rusty with PHP.

[NTLDR]

Yes you would need to add: ORDER BY title ASC to the query

[Taco John]

I don't know much about PHP... Would I need to go into the myPHP control panel?

[damicatz]

No, it'd require an actual code change, you'd have to change around some of the querys, possibly having to rewrite some, as I'm not sure if you can sort the global posticons database query without screwing something up. I'm not 100% sure on that however.

[Taco John]

I'll just have to live with sorting them by hand then...

Thanks for the hack! Nice job man!

[Dean C]

This is awesome :P

Hope its included in vb3 as it makes it so much neater hehe

[damicatz]

From what I understand, Jelsoft isn't adding anymore features to vB 3 although there's always 3.1/3.5.

[SpeedStreet]

Oooh...This is kinda nice.

Anyway I think I am going to try to modify this to work with smilies as well...would anyone be interested in this?

*edit - actually, is there a way you can just post up the code for this, versus having to make it a php hack the gives you the ability to select yes or no in your options? Instead of making this a global thing, I would be interested in just adding it to one of my styles.

Do you think this is a possibility, since you have already done the worst of it?

[Taco John]

You can just open the PHP as a text file... But you'll need to run it to alter the database, unless you want to do that manually too...

[damicatz]

Instructions are in the PHP file as text, like Taco John Said, it's under a textarea tag. The database query adds a option to the global settings page, so if you don't want that you don't want to run the actual query.