Forum Home Enhancements - Catagory Icons

Catagory Icons
Tested on 3.6.1
By Adrian at Development chat.com

Current Version: 1.0.1
1.0.1 Status: Working Fine.

Hey,

I noticed a few people around the 'net wanted a modification like this, It wasn't too hard so i thought i would give it ago.

You can specify a image path/url to use for your catagory icon, if none is specified, the forum will use vBulletins default image.
See bottom of post for screenshots

Installation
Import product-catagoryicons.xml (It should make the needed Mysql tables too)
Go to Options > Catagory Icons to enable the mod'.

Template Edits
Open Forum Home Templates > forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
Find:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />

or

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

Replace with:

<if condition="$vboptions[customimg_enabled] == 1">
	<if condition="$forum[customimg] == ''">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

<else />
		<img src="$forum[customimg]" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

<else />
	<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

Save.
Open up Forum Home Templates > forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
Find:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />

or

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

Replace with:

<if condition="$vboptions[customimg_enabled] == 1">
	<if condition="$forum[customimg] == ''">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

<else />
		<img src="$forum[customimg]" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

<else />
	<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" 

id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
</if>

Done.

That should be it.

To set catagory icons, just edit a forum, the image field is at the bottom.
If you have any problems, just ask.

If you use it, please click install.

Thanks.

Adrian

[Endurer]

Anyone tried this on vb 3.7?

[Inferno Dragon]

I tried to install it on my local machine running vb 3.7 RC3, but I think this mod is not compatible with the 3.7 version of VB, even I unable the mod from the vbulletin options menu, but the image fields didn't appear in the Edit Forum page (I think the author need to update the hook locations?)

[carubmun]

Originally Posted by pxd

In 3.7 you can set up a custom Prefix for Forum Status Images which basically a native way to choose individual forum category icons.

I cant figure out how ?

[soundbarrierpro]

Don't use this. I installed it and tried running it. Didn't want it and tried to remove. Now I get sql error trying to removed. So I just disabled it.

[KanmaiseR]

thanks, installed

[Ronak]

does this work on vB 3.7 ?

[merk_aus]

Hi there,
I installed this but any time I go to add any icons I get this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE forum SET
title_clean = 'Rugby League',
title = 'Rugby League',
description_clean = 'All NRL discussion here, From your favourite teams to the teams you most hate. Discuss all teams, results, injuries, why your teams the best, what makes your club what it is and in general debating about rugby league.',
description = 'All NRL discussion here, From your favourite teams to the teams you most hate. Discuss all teams, results, injuries, why your teams the best, what makes your club what it is and in general debating about rugby league.',
link = '',
displayorder = 1,
parentid = 5,
daysprune = -1,
defaultsortfield = 'lastpost',
defaultsortorder = 'desc',
showprivate = 0,
newpostemail = '',
newthreademail = '',
### Bitfield: forum.options ###
options = IF(options & 8, options - 8, options),
options = IF(options & 16, options - 16, options),
options = IF(options & 32, options - 32, options),
options = IF(options & 32768, options - 32768, options),
options = IF(options & 8192, options, options + 8192),
options = IF(options & 4, options, options + 4),
options = IF(options & 1, options, options + 1),
options = IF(options & 2, options, options + 2),
options = IF(options & 16384, options, options + 16384),
options = IF(options & 256, options, options + 256),
options = IF(options & 64, options, options + 64),
options = IF(options & 128, options, options + 128),
options = IF(options & 512, options, options + 512),
options = IF(options & 1024, options, options + 1024),
options = IF(options & 2048, options, options + 2048),
options = IF(options & 4096, options, options + 4096),
options = IF(options & 65536, options, options + 65536),
options = IF(options & 131072, options - 131072, options),
options = IF(options & 262144, options - 262144, options),
options = IF(options & 524288, options - 524288, options),
options = IF(options & 1048576, options - 1048576, options),
styleid = 0,
password = '',
customimg = 'http://sports-force.net.au/images/domestic.png'
WHERE forumid = 11;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'customimg' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Saturday, April 26th 2008 @ 04:54:39 PM
Script : http://forums.sports-force.net.au/ad....php?do=update
Referrer : http://forums.sports-force.net.au/ad...o=edit&f=11&s=
IP Address : 211.27.1.169
Username : Merk
Classname : vB_Database

This was brought up on about page 3 or something but the author has not replied as to how to fix it

[kp^]

I'm able to replace (Enter the URL to the image you wish to use for this catagory icon) but not able to get (New Posts: Replacement Image for 'forum_new') changed some something else, as well with (No New Posts: Replacement Image for 'forum_old').

I'm using v3.7

Thanks

[Danoxth]

Installed and works fine, cheers!

[AmbitiousOne]

Does this work for 3.7?