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[probe]

Is it possible to have a different logo for each
forum subject ?

thanks probe

[Chen]

You can do the following.
In your phpinclude template add this code

if (!$forumid) {
  $logo = "{titl[b][/b]eimage}";
} else {
  $logo = "{images[b][/b]folder}/logo_forum";
  $logo .= "$forumid";
  $logo .= ".gif";
} 

Now in your header template use $logo for the image path of your logo.
Now, for forum which its ID is 1, the logo will be logo_forum1.gif, and for a page that is not part of a forum (IE profile, member lists, etc.), the logo will be the regular logo (vBulletin_logo.gif).
This will not work in threads tho.

You can now see this in action on my demo forums (http://forum.t-cove.com/demo), see right under the logo. Just so you could understand this a bit better.

Good luck!

[probe]

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many thanks for your prompt reply
probe

[Chen]

You can also create a new template set and a style for each forum, but that's not recommended if you only change the header (because if you change any other templates, you will need to change them for ALL other template sets -- pretty intense if you have dozens of forums). I recommend using the code I put in my first post.

[probe]

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Sorry but this is a bit over my head !

where can i find the phpinclude template
would really appreciate a step for step
like a Vb for dummies ....

many thanks probe

[Chen]

Sure.
In your admin cp => Styles => Modify => Fonts/Colors/etc (for the style you want this) => The very first template is titled "PHP parsed code". That's the phpinclude.

[probe]

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Great stuff
your Brilliant !!!

probe

[probe]

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Hi FireFly
sorry to bother you again but i still cant get it to work.
i have followed your instructions but in the header part i am unsure where to do the changes, this is the code that header bring up:

<!-- logo and buttons -->
<center>
<table border="0" width="{tablewidth}" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left" background="{imagesfolder}/menu_background.gif"><a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"><img src="{titleimage}" border="0" alt="$bbtitle"></a></td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right" nowrap

do i need to put the path where the bbtitle is ??
i also cant see the forum numbers that you mentioned ??

sorry to be such a pain

thanks probe

[Chen]

You're no pain.

Change this

<img src="{titlei[i][/i]mage}" border="0" alt="$bbtitle">

to this

<img src="$logo" border="0" alt="$bbtitle">

And as Ed stated in another thread, this is the right code to put in your phpinclude:

if($getforum[forumid]) {
  $pinky  = $getforum[forumid];
}
if($forumid) {
  $pinky  = $forumid;
}
if (!$pinky) {
  $logo = "images/vBulletin_logo.gif";
} else {
  $logo = "images/logo_forum";
  $logo .= "$pinky";
  $logo .= ".gif";
} 

[probe]

thanks

thanks for your patients
will give it a go

probe

[Chen]

No problem.
I just did and it works great, also in threads.

[probe]

It Works

Great stuff it works !!!

one thing though, why is this not incorperated into the CP
i am sure it is a option that everybody would use ??

thanks again

probe

[Steve Machol]

probe,

Could you please enter your license info into your user profile? See my sig for details. Thanks!

[Ruth]

FireFly, can you use the same idea to have 2 headers (2 different htmls)

the 1st header for registered members
else
2nd header for guests/unregistered.

thanks

[GreeceMonkey]

If header file exists else :-)

I have seen and understand the code above, however I am not a big PHP programmer, and I would like to know how I intergrate the following code I found on a post into the above code.

if (file_exists('/path/to/a/file.txt'))
{
$file_exists = true;
}

What I would liek to be able to do is to say if file exists for the forum ID then display it, if the forumid exists and the image doesnot then display the default image. This would allow for an error or some time when creating a new forum to it to run on the default image until the correct image was put in the image folder.

I have tryed to do this, but I failed