Catagory Icons

[FH]

Hello All,

Does anyone know if there is a mod that would allow me to put icons to the right of the cat titles and underneath the thread titles like pictured below?

For example:




Thanks!
FH

[Spaceman-Spiff]

u'll need to edit boardindex.php to do that

[FH]

Cool thanks!

Do you know where in particular?

FH

[Jack.R.Abbit]

In boardindex.php search for something like this:

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<td colspan="5" class="catbg" height="18"><a name="$row_board[ID_CAT]"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a></td>This is where each of the Category headings get printed out.  Since this happens inside a loop for each Category, if you want a different image for each Cat., you'll need to figure out how to do that.

Good luck.

-Jack

[chris]

UNTESTED!!!

hmmm the easiest way should be something like this:

search for:

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 <tr>
    <td colspan="5" class="catbg" height="18"><a name="$row_board[ID_CAT]"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a></td>
  </tr>
replace with:

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  <tr>
    <td colspan="4" class="catbg" height="18">
     <a name="$row_board[ID_CAT]"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a>
    </td>
    <td align='center'>
     <img src='$imagesdir/$row_board[ID_CAT].gif' alt=''>
    </td>
  </tr>

Now all you have to do is to put some GIF-Files in your YaBBImages-directory called:

[CATEGORY-ID].gif (so for cat-id 1 this would be 1.gif, for cat-id 2 = 2.gif)

UNTESTED!!!

[FH]

Great!

Now lets say that the pictures are links to sponsors. How would I make each image link to the the corresponding url?

Thanks for your help!

[chris]

Great!

Now lets say that the pictures are links to sponsors. How would I make each image link to the the corresponding url?

Thanks for your help!

again.... an EASY solution....

add this somewhere in the beginning of the function (somewhere after the "global $...." lines....)

$sponsor[(CATEGORY ID)] = 'http://www.somewhere.tld';
$sponsor[(OTHER CATEGORY ID)] = 'http://www.somewhere.tld';
$sponsor[(AND ANOTHER CATEGORY ID)] = 'http://www.somewhere.tld';

now, change

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<img src='$imagesdir/$row_board[ID_CAT].gif' alt=''>

to:

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<a href='$sponsors[ID_CAT]'><img src='$imagesdir/$row_board[ID_CAT].gif' alt='' border='0'></a>

done

[FH]

Thats doesnt work fully!

Everything is working but the links! heres what i got!

$sponsor[11]= 'http://www.combustionwebhosting.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=FordHarley&campaign=Forum';

blah blah blah

  <tr>
   <td colspan="4" height="18" class="catbg">
    <a name="$row_board[ID_CAT]"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a>
   </td>
   <td align='center' class="catbg"><a href="$sponsors[ID_CAT]" target="_blank"><img src='$imagesdir/$row_board[ID_CAT].gif' alt='' border='0'></a>
   </td>
  </tr>


all the links go to http://www.fordharley.com/forum/

[FH]

C'mon someone please help

I know that there is something worg with the above mod.

Can anyone find it?

thanks

[FH]

Ok since upgrading to the new 1.5.1 this mod has changed. Can someone please help me out. I also want to have a picture below or the right the cat title!

FH

[tdodnz]

the instructions Christian land gave you should work, but

heres a problem i found

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"<a href="$sponsors[ID_CAT]" target="_blank">note the word sponsors while your setting for it is

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sponsor[11]= 'http://www.combustionwebhosting.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=FordHarley&campaign=Forum';
note the words sponsor and sponsors they should be the same. Ill have a look at 1.5 soon to see if i can help but it shouldn't of changed that much

[FH]

Doesnt find any of the original code  

Also the above one didnt work. It only showed one url for all the different pics. Even after the spelling mistke was fixed.

FH

[FH]

anyone?

[Nemesis]

An easier way....

In the descripiton of the topic just use an image tag to start it.

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<img src="http://www.yourserver/image/yourimage.jpg" width="80" height="33"> This is board for my topic before this descripition you'll see an image.
to control the look put the code in table tags.

Check out my forum for an example:
Scroll down the page to see it
http://www.gamerzalliance.com/community/index.php

[tdodnz]

sorry I missed it before but this is in an echo which means you need to close it to add in the $variables then open it as such try replacing with this.

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<tr>
  <td colspan="4" height="18" class="catbg">
   <a name="' . $row_board[ID_CAT] . '"><b>' . $row_board[catName] . '</b></a>
  </td>
  <td align="center" class="catbg"><a href="' . $sponsors[ID_CAT] . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $imagesdir . '/' . $row_board[ID_CAT] . '.gif" alt="" border="0"></a>
  </td>
 </tr>
Now if that doesn't work, tell me as its probably simple as depending on whether the echo is done with single quotes or double will stuff it up as this is set up for single