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***labrocca*** · (This post was last modified: Nov 08, 2009 07:57 PM by labrocca.)

License is attached inside extras folder by using this software you agree to the terms of that license.

Plugin Name: Ficons (Forum Icons)
Plugin Author: Jesse Labrocca
Plugin Website: http://www.MybbCentral.com
Plugin Version: 2.1
Plugin Mybb Compatibility: 1.4x
Plugin File Edits: None
Plugin File Uploads: 2
Plugin Description: This plugin will add forum icons to your index page and subforum index pages.

Installation

1. Upload the files from the zip

2. Chmod the uploads/ficons folder 777.

3. Login to your admincp and ACTIVATE the plugin (Ficons) in the plugin manager.

4. You will see a new option in the admin under "Forum Management" for "Ficons". The rest is self explanatory.

Screenshots are all available inside the extras folder.

This plugin currently offers no language support.

Template Troubleshooting:
There are 4 total template edits.

forumbit_depth1_cat
Find <td class="thead" colspan="5">
Change to <td class="thead" colspan="6">

Find <td class="tcat" colspan="2">
Change to <td class="tcat" colspan="3">

forumbit_depth2_forum
Find <td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top">
Before it add
<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td>

forumdisplay_subforums
Find colspan="5"
Change to colspan="6"

Find <td class="tcat" width="2%"> </td>
After add <td class="tcat" width="2%"> </td> (yes it's twice)

forumbit_depth2_cat
Find <td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top">
Before it add
<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td>

Enjoy.

***labrocca*** · (This post was last modified: Mar 30, 2009 06:52 PM by labrocca.)

New update for Ficons. I have closed the old thread as it was too large to actually be helpful. I have added troubleshooting tips, updated a template that needed to also be changed, altered description for title to be the forum name instead, and changed the admincp list to not include categories.

Those with previous versions are not required to update there are no actual security fixes and if ficons is working for you no need to update. If you do want to update just overwrite the ficons plugin file and that's it.

Enjoy version 2.1.

**ByteHunter** · Mar 31, 2009, 11:19 AM

Nice . I`ve been waited for this plugin Big Grin

Psinetic · (This post was last modified: Apr 04, 2009 10:54 AM by Psinetic.)

Omni,

Hey, I put this on my christian forums (http://www.psinetic.org/christian/) and it made the forums look kinda funny. Any ideas?

i'm trying to attach some photos to this for better assistance, hang on a few.

EDIT:

Change that link, it's now (i used the same theme on all three and got the same problem on all three):

I'll just give you one link though, since they all have the same problem:

http://www.christianityforums.net

***labrocca*** · Apr 04, 2009, 02:37 PM

The troubleshooting guide should help you. If you are using custom templates you may need to make more alterations to your templates for this to work Play with your colspan and make sure that the ficons td actually was placed.

Psinetic · Apr 04, 2009, 08:07 PM

alright, in editing, i found this problem:

Code:

forumbit_depth2_forum

Find <td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top">

Before it add

<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td>

Neither of those two codes exists in my version of ficons.php. Seems as though you've already editing the .php to reflect this.

It also seems you've posted this twice, the same troubleshooting code is at the end as well. and, unfortunately, none of these troubleshooting guides did anything at all to it. Interesting...all those changes, i figured something would've happened.

***labrocca*** · Apr 04, 2009, 08:23 PM

Ugh..you don't edit ficons.php. In admincp you edit the named templates.

Psinetic · (This post was last modified: Apr 04, 2009 09:56 PM by Psinetic.)

son of a....*beats head on table very hard*

ok, so from further investigation, i see this as my problem:

Codes (Click to View)

Code:

forumbit_depth2_forum

Find <td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top">

Before it add

<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td>

the code:

Code:

<td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top">

Doesn't exst in forumbit_depth2_forum.

here's the code that DOES exist:

Code:

Forumbit_depth2_forum:

<tr>

<td class="trow1" align="center" valign="top"><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$lightbulb['folder']}.gif" alt="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" title="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" class="ajax_mark_read" id="mark_read_{$forum['fid']}" /></td><td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td>

<td class="trow2" valign="top">

<strong><a href="{$forum_url}">{$forum['name']}</a></strong>{$forum_viewers_text}<div class="smalltext">{$forum['description']}{$modlist}{$subforums}</div>

</td>

<td class="trow1" valign="top" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap">{$threads}{$unapproved['unapproved_threads']}</td>

<td class="trow1" valign="top" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap">{$posts}{$unapproved['unapproved_posts']}</td>

<td class="trow1" valign="top" align="right" style="white-space: nowrap">{$lastpost}</td>

</tr>

Code:

forumbit_depth1_cat:

<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder">

<thead>

<tr>

<td class="thead" colspan="8">

<div class="expcolimage"><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$expcolimage}" id="cat_{$forum['fid']}_img" class="expander" alt="{$expaltext}" title="{$expaltext}" /></div>

<div><strong><a href="{$forum_url}">{$forum['name']}</a></strong><br /><div class="smalltext">{$forum['description']}</div></div>

</td>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody style="{$expdisplay}" id="cat_{$forum['fid']}_e">

<tr>

<td class="tcat" width="35"></td>

<td class="tcat"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_forum}</strong></td>

<td class="tcat" width="85" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_threads}</strong></td>

<td class="tcat" width="85" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_posts}</strong></td>

<td class="tcat" width="200" align="left"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_lastpost}</strong></td>

</tr>

{$sub_forums}

</tbody>

</table>

<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder">

<tr>

<td colspan="5" class="thead_bottom">

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<br />

Code:

forumdisplay_subforums:

<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder">

<tr>

<td class="thead" colspan="6" align="center"><strong>{$lang->sub_forums_in}</strong></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="tcat" width="2%">&nbsp;</td><td class="tcat" width="2%">&nbsp;</td><td class="tcat" width="2%">&nbsp;</td><td class="tcat" width="2%">&nbsp;</td>

<td class="tcat" width="59%"><span class="smalltext"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_forum}</strong></span></td>

<td class="tcat" width="7%" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap"><span class="smalltext"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_threads}</strong></span></td>

<td class="tcat" width="7%" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap"><span class="smalltext"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_posts}</strong></span></td>

<td class="tcat" width="15%" align="center"><span class="smalltext"><strong>{$lang->forumbit_lastpost}</strong></span></td>

</tr>

{$forums}

</table>

<br />

Code:

forumbit_depth2_cat:

<tr>

<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$lightbulb['folder']}.gif" alt="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" title="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" class="ajax_mark_read" id="mark_read_{$forum['fid']}" /></td>

<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td><td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top">

<strong><a href="{$forum_url}">{$forum['name']}</a></strong>{$forum_viewers_text}<div class="smalltext">{$forum['description']}{$subforums}</div>

</td>

<td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap">{$threads}{$unapproved['unapproved_threads']}</td>

<td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap">{$posts}{$unapproved['unapproved_posts']}</td>

<td class="{$bgcolor}" valign="top" align="right" style="white-space: nowrap">{$lastpost}</td>

</tr>

That's all the codes you said to edit. I got this theme from here (mybbcentral) so if u want to take a look at it.

***labrocca*** · (This post was last modified: Apr 04, 2009 10:02 PM by labrocca.)

Add the td line for the ficon..it goes after the tr

<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="1"><img src="uploads/ficons/{$forum['ficon']}" alt="{$forum['name']}" /></td>

That's ficon table data...you don't know any html? You are just adding a column..it's very basic.

Psinetic · (This post was last modified: Apr 04, 2009 11:06 PM by Psinetic.)

apparently i don't know. I learn by troubleshooting, asking alot of dumb questions, and doing it myself. I can't learn from a book, i actually have to do it. After a bit of application, i've learned ALOT about mybb forums and how to edit them and lots of stuff just in two weeks simply from jumping into a project without knowing what's gonna happen or where to go and just doing alot of searching and asking questions. Big Grin

thanks for the help, i'm gonna go put this in there and see how it turns out.

Ok, so I edited around and did like you said, looked here and there, and for the most part, it's working. HOWEVER, there is one thing that's bothering me. (btw i'm editing at http://www.scientificforums.net) at the far left side of the main page of the forum, the black category part does absolutely fine now, and i got the right hand side of the blue background image to go across as it's supposed to, but now i'm having issues with the left hand side of the blue background image. It's not going over on the last cell of the table. I've edited what I can find that would do this, but, as i already said, i'm not good at html at all and i bet it's right under my nose.

http://www.scientificforums.net

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