Simple Category Icons

Ok folks.

For all of you who want Category Icons including the "new post", "no new post", "forum closed" capabilities, here is a quick and simple solution provided by Andreas

What this hack does: Instead of the standard forum icons like
or , ... you can now have separat status icons for every forum you have. It is that simple

Templates forumhome_forumbit_level_...

search:

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

Replace with

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

then create/name your images like this:

forumID_new.gif, forumID_old.gif,...

Example: forum1_new.gif

If you want to have different icons for subforums on forumhome as well:


In forumhome_subforumbit_nopost and forumhome_subforumbit_post

search for:

<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

and replace it with:

<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum$forum[forumid]_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />

Name your images like:

subforumID_old.gif
subforumID_new.gif

Example: subforum22_old.gif

I don't use this hack so I have no screenshots, but If anyone is trying this, it would be cool if you could provide some screenshots.

Remember to click installed

Greetings

StarBuG

[6piston]

hi starbug,

well i could batch convert the _old icons to grey.
i just dunno if i should. having some grey-er icons and all... don't wanna spoil the look you know..
hmm, i could try adding a star or some sort to the _new icons instead
but grey icons would make a significant difference to the look

i am also going to do the sub cat too

thanks again for your hack!

Tom

[vuiveclub_net]

A sample site for this code: http://giaitri.homeip.net/vb/

[MThornback]

To automate this somewhat....

make a new plugin on the forumbit_display hook.

$showCustom[$forum['forumid']] = false;
if (is_file("path/to/forum/images/statusicon/forum".$forum['forumid']."_new.gif")) {
    $showCustom[$forum['forumid']] = true;
}

In the template edits, replace the authors code with this (its still the authors code...which is why i'm not releasing it as my own...its just moved around and with a few conditionals):

<td>
			<if condition="$vboptions[customimg_enabled] == 1">
				<if condition="$forum[customimg] == ''">
					<if condition="$showCustom[$forum[forumid]] == true">
						<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum$forum[forumid]_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />
					<else />
						<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
					</if>
				<else />
						<img src="$forum[customimg]" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
				</if>
			<else />
				<if condition="$showCustom[$forum[forumid]] == true">
					<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum$forum[forumid]_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />
				<else />
					<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" />
				</if>
			</if>
			</td>

If it works (it does for me) it should replace for forums that have an image in the right folder, otherwise display the default. The best of both worlds

Enjoy!

[Staxed]

please upload a text file

[MThornback]

I'm gonna leave that to the author...its his code, I just tweaked it

[consolegaming]

Hi, MThornback your suggested code didn't seem to work it just showed the default icons and nothing else. Any idea what could have caused this? I was using png's (i.e. changing all the extensions in the extract of code to png except for the final one for the default icon) but to test it I tried it all with gifs and it still did same.

Also is the closing t tag meant to be there? tried it with and without and didn't see much of any difference but wanted to double check that too.

Would certainly be useul to be able to state a default img.

[MThornback]

Your absolutely right, the code I added didn't include the plugins' variable.....i'm sorry about that! As long as you change the extension to png in the plugin and in the template edits, it should work fine now

If you replace what I gave you the first time with whats there now it should work.

Sorry about that again!

[StarBuG]

@hippiesimz

I just released the hack you were looking for.

You can find it here:

Forum Images next to the Description for every Forum

Best regards

StarBuG

[bryandailey]

Hey there, great hack. Quick question. Since I have taken all of my category icons and changed them to custom icons (and its going to be a very active board and wont have closed forums or inactive ones), is there a way to remove the symbol key at the bottom of the hompage? (see the attached image)

[StarBuG]

in template FORUMHOME remove

<tr>
			<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
			<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
		</tr>