Custom Forum Icons

[Reece^B]

Someone over @ vb.org said that it's now built into vB to be able to change the forum images.

How can this be done?

[Zachery]

Its done per forum, edit each forum and there is a prefix setting for custom images.

[Reece^B]

Right okay, however I add the 'prefix' but no image gets displayed.

[bbcentral]

Just figuring this one out myself now.

First of all, here's the help section on custom forum image prefixes:

The following images are currently in use for status icons, you will need to create images with the specified prefix to match.

• forum_link.gif
• forum_new.gif
• forum_new_lock.gif
• forum_old.gif
• forum_old_lock.gif

So every single custom forum icon is going to need 5 different variations (I'd probably just build some kind of template in photoshop and then replicate it multiple times, and splice the images).

If your forum is called News, then your prefix could be news_.
If the image originally being shown is forum_old.gif, then your forum will instead show news_forum_old.gif.

The reason why the image didn't change for me when I put the prefix in was because I was missing the code in my custom style.

It's located in two templates, in forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post.

You're basically looking for this:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/[B]$forum[imageprefix][/B]forum_$forum[statusicon].gif"

I was missing the part in bold:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif"

Add that to your two templates and it will work

[Zachery]

forum_link.gif would not be used too often.

[Reece^B]

I really can't get this to work, why can't you just type the location of the image, that will then be displayed?