Forum Images next to the Description for every Forum

What this hack does:
This hack adds an image next to every forum description for every forum you want.

Installation:

in Template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

find:

<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>

and replace it with:

<if condition="$show['forumdescription']">
         <div class="smallfont">
       <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forumid.png" alt="" class="ForumImages" /> 
          $forum[description]
         </div>
        </if>

Go to your style options and add the following into additional css:

/* Forum Images next to the Description for every Forum */
.ForumImages {
float: right; 
margin-right: 8px; 
margin-top: 2px; 
}

If you want the image on the left site of the description use:

/* Forum Images next to the Description for every Forum */
.ForumImages {
float: left; 
margin-right: 8px; 
margin-top: 2px; 
}

Save your style options and you are done.

Now you simply need to create images called:

ForumID.png

for each forum you want to have an image and put it into /images/statusicon/
Example: 22.png

DEMO: http://www.elternfragen.net

Hope you like it

StarBuG

ps: As far as I can remember Andreas gave me the tip how to do it.
So all credit goes to him.

[StarBuG]

Originally Posted by Nephalim

cool, but what size are the images?
thank you

You can use any size you want

[outphasen]

Originally Posted by Adam21

You can change them all to PNG or GIF,but not a mixed of GIFs or PNGs and you also need to specify in the code Starbug provided,which to use.Here's a free image converter site to convert all images as you wish http://www.coolutils.com/Online-Image-Converter.php.

And to place them besides the forum titles,descriptions,place this code

<img src="images/categoryicons/$forumid.gif" alt="" class="ForumImages" /><br />

before this code

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

See the screenshot to what i meant.

Thank you!!

[germinus]

Any way to make this work for thread discription? For example a forum for skins, each thread could have a small thumbnail of the skin

[StarBuG]

Then you would need to define an image for each thread.

This is a simple mod not a full blown hack
But sure that would be possible I think.
The same way it works on index

[dannylin3000]

does anyone know how to do something very smiliar to this?

http://www.dc543.net/forum-3.html

they generated thumbs for the first images posted in each thread. (the images were posted using [ img ] bbcode, not attachment.)

[abdulla1]

Is there a way to add a picture next to each forum title?

here is of what i mean below,

[daz1967]

this is great but it is only working on some of my forum descriptions any ideas?

thanks

[StarBuG]

If you use the right forumID for the graphic name then they should show up.
Check your image names.

[daz1967]

I have and before i uploaded the images only some forums had the red x box where they were waiting for the images

[StarBuG]

Did you create GIF images or PNG images?

Cause in the code they are PNG, if you use GIF change that in my code