Mini Mods - North American Sports Team Icons

Want to show off the pride of your favorite sports team and allow your members to do the same?

This mod creates such a feature on your site.

Your members can select up to 3 teams they root for or support. This will show up in the postbit area on the forum.

Whether it's the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, or NCAA, we have it covered. You can add your own custom images as well or add to the list already provided.

It's an easy little add on with big results.

Step By Step Installation:

1) Upload the entire "teams" folder in your forumname.com/images/folder.

2) Go to your admincp->User Profile Fields->Add New User Profile Field.

3) For the Profile Field Type pick the 4th selection from the dropdown list.
The name of it is "Single-Selection Menu". Now press continue.

4) On the new page, fill out this information :
Title: My Favorite Sports Team
Description: Select your favorite team from the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, or NCAA.
Options: (Copy and paste in the options box, the list below. Copy it exactly as it is,
and keep in mind that each team must appear on a separate line)

LIST OF TEAMS IN FILE

Set Default: None
Display Order: Don't change this. Only thing you have to do, is to WRITE DOWN the number(ID) given in the "Display Order" field.
You will need it later on during this installation.!!!
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No
Option Input:
Allow user to input their own value for this option: No
Max length: Don't change it
Display Size: Don't change it
Regular Expression: Leave it blank
Display Page: Select "Edit Profile"

Click SAVE button.

If you just want one team listed, continue on, but only use one line of the <if condition> line below in the code you must Add.
If you want to add more teams, then just add more lines between the <div> code. Also if you want more teams listed...
MAKE SURE YOU COMPLETE THE ABOVE STEP FOR AS MANY TEAMS AS YOU WANT YOUR USERS TO SELECT.


5) Now go to Styles & templates->Style Manager. Now you are looking at all the styles you are using for your forum.
Pick the style you want to apply this hack by changing the dropdown selection next to it, to "Edit Templates".

6) On the new page, find the postbit or postbit_legacy template (depends which one you are using for your forum) and double click on it to edit it.

7) In your code find:

<if condition="$show['reputation']"><div><if condition="$show['reppower']">$vbphrase[reppower]: $post[reppower]</if>$post[reputationdisplay]</div></if>
<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div>
</div>

Below Add:

<div align="center">
<if condition="$post[fieldX] != ''"><img src="images/teams/$post[fieldX].gif" title="$post[fieldX]" align="center" border="0"/></if>
<if condition="$post[fieldX] != ''"><img src="images/teams/$post[fieldX].gif" title="$post[fieldX]" align="center" border="0"/></if>
<if condition="$post[fieldX] != ''"><img src="images/teams/$post[fieldX].gif" title="$post[fieldX]" align="center" border="0"/></if>
</div>

BEFORE clicking Save, change the [fieldX] to the number(ID) given by the system in step 4 Display Order. For example [fieldX] will be changed to [field9].
Change all 3 [fieldX] and now you may click Save.

Finally, if you covered all the above steps correctly, you will be able to see a dropdown selection list for American Sports Teams Hack in your UserCP-> Edit Profile

NOTE: The above code is for 3 teams listed in your postbit side-by-side. If you don't care for the team logos I created, simply create your own and name them how you would want them entered on the option drop down. You'll notice that the images names are the same as we have listed.

This mod/hack could be used for almost anything that you wanted your members to be able to select an image in place of text.

Any questions or problems, please let me know.

FYI, I included the college teams in this mod, but if you just want the professional sports, just do not copy those team names in the options area.

Enjoy!

Version 1.2:
Added UFL logos to the system.

Version 1.1:
1. Edited the file to fix a spelling error.
2. Changed the icons for Columbus Blue Jackets, Oklahoma City Thunder, and NFL.

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks...

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[Gophers]

I know i am late to the party. But i using this mod and it rock.

BirdOPrey5 anyway you can make some Soccer team logos, mostly MLS and some other.

[BirdOPrey5]

I have some soccer already made... honestly I have no idea what the team names even are...

If you have a list of team names I'll see what I can do... in the mean time these are what I have:

<<soccer>>
Arsenal
Charlotte Eagles
Cinsinnati Kings
Houston Dynamo
LA Galaxy
Manchester United
MLS Soccer
New Jersey Ironmen
New York Redbull
Philadelphia Union
Portland Timbers
Rochester Rhinos
US Soccer
Vancouver Whitecaps

Edited- New Soccer file 2 posts below.

[Gophers]

Here are the team names for the MLS.

New York Red Bulls
Columbus Crew
Kansas City Wizards
Chicago Fire
Toronto FC
New England Revolution
Philadelphia Union
D.C. United


Los Angeles Galaxy
Real Salt Lake
FC Dallas
Seattle Sounders FC
Colorado Rapids
San Jose Earthquakes
Houston Dynamo
Chivas USA

Also add this one to your list, NASL Team the NSC Minnesota Stars. a team from my area.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK, I added those logos to the ones I already had...

<<soccer>>
Arsenal
Charlotte Eagles
Chicago Fire
Chivas USA
Cinsinnati Kings
Colorado Rapids
Columbus Crew
DC United
FC Dallas
Houston Dynamo
Kansas City Wizards
LA Galaxy
Manchester United
MLS Soccer
New England Revolution
New Jersey Ironmen
New York Redbull
Philadelphia Union
Portland Timbers
Real Salt Lake
Rochester Rhinos
San Jose Earthquakes
Seattle Sounders FC
Toronto FC
US Soccer
Vancouver Whitecaps

[Gophers]

Thank man. that all i needed.

[combs]

Originally Posted by steeler7

To get this to work on vB4 I used everything here except I used the following code in my postbit legacy...

<vb:if condition="$post['fieldX']"><img src="images/teams/{vb:raw post.fieldX}.gif" alt="Sports Logo" border="" /></vb:if>

I actually put the above directly under

{vb:rawphrase 'posts'} : {vb:raw post.posts}

This works perfect in VB4 in case anybody is wondering.

Thanks for the great mod. If anybody is creating images, it'd be cool if you could add other entertainment type things. Popular TV shows, Musicians, and of course hot celebrities =)

[Krusty1231]

Thanks and thanks for this. Works great on 4.1.1

Special note to Bird of Prey - thanks for the extra's you made and shared here.....very nice.

[combs]

any idea why this would be happening? Only happens to about 1/5th of the members profiles. Can't figure it out.



Sorry for the small pic but you get the idea. they appear on the side sometimes.

[BirdOPrey5]

Are you using postbit or postbit_legacy?