Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Category Icons (Advanced)

This is a hack that will add icons to your forum categories on the forum home page.

History: I was the originator of this hack back in the vBulletin 1.x days and continued this in vb 3.7.x. I have had numerous requests to port this to vb 4.x.x so here you are.

Please click install if you want support for this mod and to encourage me to continue adding features!

Enjoy!

You can find nice icons here, here and here.

Thanks to LatinoCheats for this link.

Changelogs:

1.2.0:

• * Option to change icon location i.e. After Status Icon, Under Forum Title or Replace Status Icon.
  * Now contains a dropdown listing your icons in the folder so you just select and save.
  * Displays icon in forum manager when editing a forum that contains an icon.
  * Change icon width and height so you need to only upload one size icon.
  * Set icon position so you can center the icon when using smaller icons.
  * Dropdown of transparency settings for icons used to replace status icons when indicating "Old Posts".
  * Allows you to mark forum/subforum as read.
  * Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum).

1.2.1:

• * Now works for Mark Forum/SubForum as read!

1.2.2:

• * Fixed: template bug.
  * Added: Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum.)

1.2.3:

• * Added: Automatic Template Edits!
  * Added: Only jpg, gif and png icons allowed. (extensions checked in forum edit).
  * Fixed: Mark Forum Read for specific forum/subforum.
  * Fixed: Now shows non-transparent status icon when "Show Locks" is enabled.

1.2.4:

• * Fixed: Users Viewing. (This is working on a default vb style, others styles may have issues)
  * Fixed: Mark Read should now be fixed, working fine on my end.
  * Fixed: Icon not appearing when "Forum Description" disabled.

2.0.0

• * Icon size can be set either globally or set per forum, setting is in vb options.
  * When selecting an icon in forum manager the selected icon now shows to the right of the dropdown so you can see what you are selecting.
  * If your upgrading from 1.2.4 and had to do manual template edits then you will need to revert the templates and redo the edits.

Upgrades: For those upgrading just make sure when you import the product you select "Allow Overwrite". You will also need to revert your templates (only for users of version 1.2.2 or earlier) and then follow the instructions as outlined in the install.html file.

Note: Before you ask, yes this works with all browsers. (Tested on FF, IE8, IE7, Chrome, Safari and Opera)

IMPORTANT! If you use the "Auto Template" feature of this mod and it doesn't work then you MUST do the manual template edits outlined in the install.html. This plugin was created using a default vbulletin style.

If you like this mod than please nominate for "MOTM".

Donations are gladly accepted!

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by blackie58

Hi All

I,m new to this so be gentle
I have installed it & edited the areas required but i get no icons to choose when selecting.
I have a custom style Animated arena
I have made the folder under images but no images show in the dropdown box
Can somebody help please

Did you specify the folder name in the Options>Forum Category Icon settings?

Also, for some reason it would not list my images if they were any type except png. It would not accept gif or jpeg . What type are your images? Try one as png

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by 1005467401

The sub forum icon doesnt change.......

What do you mean?

[BGObsession]

Nice mod brother

[Yucar]

yo dudes i just installed Themeforest metro theme is there a way to use that plug in with that theme ?

[betadoor]

Forum Category Icons not Work on Subforums

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by betadoor

Forum Category Icons not Work on Subforums

This mod does work for sub forums. See my posts #667 to #677

[New Joe]

Originally Posted by betadoor

Forum Category Icons not Work on Subforums

Yes it's a bug which hasn't been fixed.
If you edit some coding you can get it to work.

[e24h]

Nice mod brother

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by Disco_Stu

Here are my changes. I suggest you make a copy of your original code first as I am not responsible for any changes to your forums you make.

To display the sub forum icons:

Styles & Templates>Search In Templates>forumhome_subforums

Look for this line of code:

<a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw row}}">{vb:raw row.title}</a>{vb:raw row.comma}

and replace it (comment it out - I don't like to hard delete) with this code:

<br>
<div style="width:65px;">
<center><a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw row}}"><img src="images/{vb:raw vboptions.forumiconimg_folder}/{vb:raw row.forumiconimg}" /><br>{vb:raw row.title}</a></center>
</div>

That's all there is to it. Note that I left off the comma between subforums. If you want that then include "{vb:raw row.comma}" after "</a>". Also I included a <div> to control the width of the icon display and a <center> to center the title below the icon.

I'm afraid this doesn't work because of the plugin "VSa - Sub-Forum Manager" is replacing the sub-category codes.

VSA code being:

<li class="subforum">
				<vb:if condition="$canpost">
					<img class="inlineimg" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_statusicon}/{vb:raw forum.imageprefix}subforum_{vb:raw forum.statusicon}-48.png" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_{vb:raw forum.forumid}" /> 
				<vb:else />
					<img class="inlineimg" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_statusicon}/subforum_{vb:raw forum.statusicon}.png" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_{vb:raw forum.forumid}" /> 
				</vb:if>
				<a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw forum}}">{vb:raw forum.title}</a>
		</li>

[Spika]

Installed and working!

Great Job!