Custom Category Icons

[Cyricx]

well, I created a new folder off my images folder called "fhicons"

When you edit a forum, instead of putting the full url, just put like a 3 or 4 letter sequence that is unique for that forum.

For example, on my forum above all the asheron's call 1 forums I put ac1 in that box.

Then I made 5 versions of a 35x35 gif for the ac1 forums and named them

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

Lastly, I took out the template edit he did to the forumhome_forumbit_level2_post template and instead did this edit

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 ##### -->

Done

This way, forums that you don't set an icon for, will use the regular default ones