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Hi there,

I am running a 1.6.x forum, and I have several forums. Now adding unique forum icons for new/old/locked (on.gif, off.gif, offlock.gif) was simple, so long as they were Forums. I achieved this through a mod I installed.

Now that's all fine, however when I changed the forum to a Category which resides in a category the posticons don't display any longer.

So this is my request:

How can I get a unique New/Old/Locked icon for each category I have? So that no one category has the same icons.

Example:

• Category (No Icon)
  • Sub-Category (Icon for On/Off/Lock)
    • Forum 1 (No icon needed)
      
    • Forum 2 (No icon needed)
      • Sub-Forum 1 (No icon needed)
        
      • Sub-Forum 2 (No icon needed)

And I'll have about 5x that above at the least, so that's why each Sub-Category has to have its own icons. Is there any way I could do this?

Thanks in advance for your time!

Like this: http://community.mybb.com/thread-92128.html ?

(2011-05-07, 11:38 AM)Yaldaram Wrote: [ -> ]Like this: http://community.mybb.com/thread-92128.html ?

Thanks for your reply, but as far as I can tell that's just one single image, and for a Forum not Category. I need to have unique On/Off/Locked icons. Those that use on.gif, off.gif and offlock.gif same as found in this very forum, but the difference is that they are all the same.

Go to: ACP > templates > Forumbit Templates > forumbit_depth1_cat > and find;

<div><strong><a href="{$forum_url}">

and Change it to;

<div><img src="images/ficons/{$forum['fid']}.png"><strong><a href="{$forum_url}">

Now you've to do is to Make a folder in ./images/ folder and rename it to "ficons" (without quote)

Upload .png Images renaming them 1.png 2.png etc. depend upon the ID of that category.

It should be look like this now;
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(2011-05-07, 11:51 AM)Yaldaram Wrote: [ -> ]Go to: ACP > templates > Forumbit Templates > forumbit_depth1_cat > and find;

<div><strong><a href="{$forum_url}">

and Change it to;

<div><img src="images/ficons/{$forum['fid']}.png"><strong><a href="{$forum_url}">

Now you've to do is to Make a folder in ./images/ folder and rename it to "ficons" (without quote)

Upload .png Images renaming them 1.png 2.png etc. depend upon the ID of that category.

It should be look like this now;

Alright, I shall give this a try anyhow. I hope you are understanding what I mean by the On/Off/Locked icons. You know if no new posts are made in that category the icon of that category is usually grayed or dimmed... Then when a new post is made it changes to a full-color icon, and when locked usually a small lock is placed on that image. That is what I am talking about.

Thanks again, will try your above suggestion and get back to you.

Oh no, that'll require a plugin I think. And as far as I know, there isn't one like this available.

Alright Change above <img src> tag with this;

<img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$lightbulb['folder']}.gif" alt="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" title="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" class="ajax_mark_read" id="mark_read_{$forum['fid']}" />

(2011-05-07, 11:55 AM)faviouz Wrote: [ -> ]Oh no, that'll require a plugin I think. And as far as I know, there isn't one like this available.

Ah damn. You see I used: http://mods.mybb.com/view/custom-forum-icons

But as I said above, it doesn't work when I create a forum in the category. I hope what I wish to achieve is possible.

Actually, what Yaldaram posted above seems to work. I just tried it.

(2011-05-07, 12:11 PM)faviouz Wrote: [ -> ]Actually, what Yaldaram posted above seems to work. I just tried it.

Really? I'm so lost now with his 3 posts, hahaha. Would you mind just posting the steps I need to do? He overwrite twice so I got lost.