Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Icons ( MyLs1 Style )

This is a mod alot of people wanted me to release so here it is.

What it does: It displays an icon for each forum.

Demo: http://www.myls1.com

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Admin CP >> Styles & Templates >> Edit Templates >> Forum Home Templates >> forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

Find:

PHP Code:

<tr align="center">
    <td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forum[imageprefix]forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" /></td>
    <td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]"> 


Add underneat:

PHP Code:

<div style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forumid.gif" alt=""/></div> 


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Now the deal is that you have your own icons and you have to name each file with the number of the id of each forum.

So you go to Forums & Moderators >> Forum Manager

And click on any child forum (not subforum), for example in our case New Members, and look at the top for the Forum id... then you rename the .gif file with the number of the forum id, like: 2.gif

Upload them onto the images / statusicons folder

Now that file will display on that forum, and you go like that for each forum you have.

I have uploaded a PSD file for you to use if you need to make your own.
Is a 40 x 40 px file.

Enjoy!
Ask if you have any question.

[merk_aus]

i to would prefer this where the forumold and forumnew pics are - does anyone have any screenshots of this in action?

[christian8a]

I wonder how now... it should be easy but I havent had time to try it, sorry. It will align the whole forum information , time, last post and views though but if thats what you want, try adding that valign="middle" to its first table, if not the first division

[oferelijah]

i use 2 Styles in my site

one for some categories
and one for diffrent category

i tried to use this mod for the stand alone category and it dont work for me

EDIT:

SOLVED

if you want to set an icon for a single category shown on a diffrent link you shuld add the code

to "forumhome_forumbit_level1_post" template

[johnlittle]

Originally Posted by christian8a

I wonder how now... it should be easy but I havent had time to try it, sorry. It will align the whole forum information , time, last post and views though but if thats what you want, try adding that valign="middle" to its first table, if not the first division

may i have your permission to use some of your set icon at your forums? gosh i really love your forum icon gee sorry

[24hourForum.com]

thanks for sharing the code, unfortunately your 101 is not much of a help.. i spend the last hour trying to figure out how your code works!

it does not work

<div style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/585.gif" alt=""/></div>

when i use the code, the pic shows up on all forums... how do you assign it to the forum id?

[christian8a]

Originally Posted by 24hourForum.com

thanks for sharing the code, unfortunately your 101 is not much of a help.. i spend the last hour trying to figure out how your code works!

it does not work

<div style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/585.gif" alt=""/></div>

when i use the code, the pic shows up on all forums... how do you assign it to the forum id?

That is not what the code is. If you add that image of course it will ad to all forums.

Put the exact code as it is, and then rename each picture to its forum id, dont rename the code with the image name.

[24hourForum.com]

Originally Posted by christian8a

That is not what the code is. If you add that image of course it will ad to all forums.

Put the exact code as it is, and then rename each picture to its forum id, dont rename the code with the image name.

that works, thank you sir!

my other question is, how can i centre the text with the pic?

[christian8a]

Originally Posted by 24hourForum.com

that works, thank you sir!

my other question is, how can i centre the text with the pic?

That is what somebody else asked too, and I tried but I didnt figure out how to be honest. It should be simple but I couldnt. Thats whyI tried to make my images the size of the Forum font and information.

[24hourForum.com]

i could not figure it out either, so i just added more descriptions! Thanks

[PKRWUD]

Just a suggestion. Rather than instructing that your code be installed underneath:

PHP Code:

<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forum[imageprefix]forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" /></td> 


You might want to say to install above:

PHP Code:

<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a> 


I only suggest this because doing it your way created a problem for me because I have a hack installed there already that changes the background color of each forum listing with a mouseover. I installed it a long time ago, and didn't recognize it at first, so it took some playing around to figure out the problem.

Just a thought.