Customizable Forum Status Icons for 3.5

[nonamer69]

I originally run IPB2 on my site but I'm in the process of converting to Vbulletin 3.5

Anyway on my IPB2 version I have my forum status icons customized and I would like to do the same for vb but have searched this forum in and out for this mod with no luck.

Here is an example of what I want to do...




if I have missed this mod somewhere then please point it out, but
if this hasn't been done than please coders take this one on.

[icemann]

This looks nice, I would love to see a hack for doing this as well.

[EasyTarget]

can't you just find the image you want and name it whatever the icons are named now and replace them?

[Hellcat]

Or make a copy of the default style and point it to another folder for the status icons.

Something like that is done in most custom styles

[Chris M]

I'll cook something up

Chris

[nonamer69]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

can't you just find the image you want and name it whatever the icons are named now and replace them?

that would make every status icon the same because the categories read off the same image folder.

Originally Posted by Chris M

I'll cook something up

Chris

Thanks Chris I very much appreciate it.

oh if you need a reference you can see this one for ipb2.
http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/5296

[icemann]

yeah thanks Chris....

[Cyricx]

I did it using the vb category hack - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82750

I then created a new folder /images/fhicons/

instead of entering the full img src thing like he did in the box it creates when editting a forum, I just put like a 3 letter acronym. Like for my asheron's call 1 forums I put in that field

ac1

Then I made these icons

ac1_link.gif
ac1_new.gif
ac1_old.gif
ac1_new_lock.gif
ac1_old_lock.gif

and uploaded them to the new folder.

I did not do his forumhome_bit_level1_post edit

and instead of his forumhome_bit_level_2_post modification, I did this -

FIND

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

And REPLACE it with

<!-- ##### START HACK - Forum Type Icons ##### -->
<if condition="$forum[forumhomeicon]"> 
<img src="images/fhicons/$forum[forumhomeicon]_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" /> 
<else /> 
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" />
</if>
<!-- ##### END HACK - Forum Type Icons ##### -->

[nonamer69]

Awesome Job Cyricx. That works great!!!! Thank you so much.

[Chris M]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=102025

Chris