Posticons exlusive to forums. NO STYLE editing!!!

This has been done before, but I've yet to see it released here. I was desperate to have this for my forums which has a lot of posticons.

This hack allows you to make posticons useable in only forums you specify. I'm no PHP expert, and I find it amazing how I pulled this off (Had a little help from someone to get it working correctly.), so you won't be able to set the settings through admincp yet. Instead, you have to manually do some changse in your MySQL database for each posticon.

Step 1 MySQL
First, you'll have to go to the icon table in your MySQL database. Create a field called iconforums in the table. Then edit each posticon (phpMyAdmin you'll have to click on the BROWSE tab in the table to edit the fields.), add the forumids to the iconforums field, seperating each forumid with only a comma.

Step 2
Now you'll have to edit your includes/functions_newpost.php.
FIND

		SELECT iconid, iconpath, title

REPLACE WITH

		SELECT iconid, iconpath, title, iconforums

FIND

	while ($icon = $DB_site->fetch_array($icons))

	{

ADD BELOW

	$forumid = $foruminfo[forumid];
		$forums = explode(',',$icon[iconforums]);
		if (in_array($forumid,$forums))
		{

FIND

			eval('$posticonbits .= "' . fetch_template('posticonbit') . '";');

ADD BELOW

}

FINISH! Enjoy you're cleaner forums.

[tehcake]

Well, I didn't use varchar. I used mediumtext, but I should've used smalltext. I don't know if that will help.

[Renee]

Hmm, if I add the forumid to iconforums the icon which is added on iconforums don't displayed on all forum not just the added forumid :ermm:

[Clayton]

this is a really good idea

is anyone able to add more clarity to it, please?

Is this working correctly? How many of you have got it working? Is it possible to have a txt file for all in one instruction?

would be appreciated

thank you

this is only a semi-hack... usually, the protocol would need to give you a complete hack, where per example, each posticon is set in the admincp with a new field where admins add the forumids, so you don't have to edit your tables...

[Clayton]

thanks nexialys

this is a nifty idea, it would be great if someone could finalise it

will wait in anticipation

Thanks

G