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vB Category Icons

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Updates

• None At this Moment

Future Plans
Being able to upload the icon via the admincp. (not guaranteed)



What this does
This will allow you to setup a icon to display by the title of each forum you have. The look of the icon depends on how you want to set it up in the templates. This will work for all levels of sub-forums.


To do list...

• Time to install: 5-10 minutes
• Queries to run: 1
• File Mods: 1
  • /admincp/forum.php
• Templates to edit: 0
• Templates to add: 0
• New Phrases: 1

Please read carefully and make all the necessary changes as stated. This is will work if installed properly.
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Help & Support
Before asking for support Please make sure you have done all necessary changes! If you still need support please post a reply here.

Please post bugs and errors here. Hope you like, feedback welcomed.

[kobescoresagain]

A quick question, I installed you hack, and clicked install, I got it working and everything. When I downloaded it I thought it did something else, it doesn't but I find this as useful. The question that I had is could you tell me how to change it so that I could use this as the forum new thread or no new thread icon? So it shows up on the very left? I would find this very useful and think it could be change easily. The best thing I oculd think of is if I could do what you did plus what I would want to do. I think I would just have to add another phrase, and put the equivalent $forum[forumhomeicon] in the right area. You could do a couple different ones each forum and make multiple phrases, with the image you want ot show up.

What I was planning to do was to take the logo of the major sports leagues, When their is a new post I would make them regular, when no new posts, they would look the same, but faded.

Thanks alot

[Borgs8472]

This hack doesn't seem to be compatibly with forums arranged in columns hack

[sross]

i got it looking ok in firefox but in IE6 it explodes my table, any ideas why. you can see it here: http://www.itburnouts.com/forum.php

here is my level 1 code:

PHP Code:

</table>
<div style="padding:2px 0px 5px 0px;"></div>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_$forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_$forumid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
            <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"></a>
            $forum[forumhomeicon]
            <if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
    <tr align="center">
      <td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
      <td class="thead" align=
center">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
      <td width="45" class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
      <td width="45" class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
      <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
      <td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
      </if>
    </tr>
$childforumbits
<tr>
   <td class="tfoot" style="padding: 0;" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>"><img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" alt="" width="1" height="8" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if> 


[Logikos]

I have no idea why it's doing that. From what i see you have coded it correctly...

[The Avatar]

Just installed it, and I likes it very much

[Logikos]

Thanks, glad this hack very usefull

[Yukino_AE]

ok issue. everytime i try to run the querry i get this:

Error
SQL query:

ALTER TABLE forum ADD (

forumhomeicon VARCHAR( 200 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
)
MySQL said:

#1146 - Table 'aex4.forum' doesn't exist

do i have to change the forum part to vb3_forum?

nevermind i answered my own question. lol the answer is yes. so i guess anyone installing this that has a prefix for their forum in the db needs to tye that in into the query.

for example i use vb3_ as a prefix so to make this query work i had to run

ALTER TABLE vb3_forum ADD (

forumhomeicon VARCHAR( 200 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
)

just thought i'd point that out for others cuz it wasn't in the intructions and i'm a n00b at installing hacks and stuff. ^_^

[Yukino_AE]

Originally Posted by kobescoresagain

A quick question, I installed you hack, and clicked install, I got it working and everything. When I downloaded it I thought it did something else, it doesn't but I find this as useful. The question that I had is could you tell me how to change it so that I could use this as the forum new thread or no new thread icon? So it shows up on the very left? I would find this very useful and think it could be change easily. The best thing I oculd think of is if I could do what you did plus what I would want to do. I think I would just have to add another phrase, and put the equivalent $forum[forumhomeicon] in the right area. You could do a couple different ones each forum and make multiple phrases, with the image you want ot show up.

What I was planning to do was to take the logo of the major sports leagues, When their is a new post I would make them regular, when no new posts, they would look the same, but faded.

Thanks alot

I'd also like a way to be able to do this with the forum new thread no new thread? anyone know how?

[digitalSite]

Quick question: where do I put the <img src=blah blah> HTML code?

Thanks

[Logikos]

In the admincp. See screenshot.