Force a user to choose a message icon?

[Mr. Peepers]

I'd like to force users to select a message icon when creating a new thread, with a window popping up (similar to when you try to submit a thread without a subject and/or message text) if they click 'Submit New Thread' without choosing one.

Can anyone help me out? I'm still running vB 2.3.0, if that makes any difference. Thanks!

[Logician]

Not exactly what you want but similiar:

edit newthread.php, find:

PHP Code:

 $iconid = intval($iconid); 


After that add:

PHP Code:

 if ($iconid ==0 AND $bbuserinfo['usergroupid']!=6) 
{
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_nomessageicon")."\");");
exit;
} 


Create a template named "error_nomessageicon" and insert your error message there. If you have more than 1 template sets create it in all sets.

Basically it will give the error message if new thread poster did not choose a message icon and he is not an admin. The difference from your request is: This is not popup.