give each board there own image???

[jeremy420]

how do you go about giving each board there own image? instead of having the same icon for all boards

i think its the

off.gif

please help

[Anguz]

hmm... it shouldn't be too hard...

I think you can add, in the template, a condition where when $board=putboardnumberhere, then $boardimg=putboardimgurlhere

I'm new to php, so if I said something terrible, pls correct me

if the idea is correct, you can probably create a function and put all the conditions in it, where you'll imput the board number and it'll output the img's name

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thinking a bit more, you could name your pictures after your board's numbers, like "1.jpg"... in the template you'd put something like

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<img src="/boardpic/<?=$board?>.jpg">
that way you don't have add a condition to the function every time you want to change the pic for a board

I wouldn't know how to do this, but you should put a condition where if the board doesn't have a personalized picture, then a default one is used...

[Anguz]

using this same board personalization concept, the meta tags for each could be changed to fit each board and show up better in the search engine results... just an idea

although it could be done the dirty way, there could be a mod to change the meta tag info for each board in admin area, pretty much like changing the board descriptions that show in the forum's index page

[Spaceman-Spiff]

there used to be a mod for this (long long time ago )
if u can find it, maybe u can request the mod writer to upgrade the mod

[Anguz]

hehe cool, thx spiff

how would you write the condition so that if the img file doesn't exist, it'll use another one instead? it'd probably be hard to do it, I guess, since php is parsed before html asks for the files... any idea on how it could be done other than having an img for every board?

[Anguz]

hmm... I guess having a picture for each board in the folder is the simplest solution...

now, for those pages (like the index) that don't pass a board number with the url, it's like if $board didn't exist, right? so there's should be a condition where if !$board then $board=0 or something, where 0.jpg would be the default picture for those pages

would that work?

[Anguz]

other things could be changed for each board to personalize them... like styles...

maybe there could be a db table with some info for each board, to know if there's a personalized style or picture for each, that way if there's nothing mentioned, it uses the default one

well... I may try it on my board and if it works, I'll post what I did here

I'm pretty interested in this idea cause my forums are about a group of artists and there's a board for each one, with this I could really make each board suit each artist's image

another good use of this idea could be when you are hosting a friend's board at your own forums, that way he can make his look different from the others... in a case like this one, maybe the whole template could be modified

[Behr]

why not try custom templates mod. i remember i converted old dan's mod to 1.5.0. but if u r using 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 ... why not try this.

http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?board=158;action=display;threadid=15278

-Behr

[Snowman30]

Is there a way just to be able to just change the board index images? I want to have a different image for board on a forum?

Can this be done?