2.1 RC2 Changing Board Icons

[Dominus Arbitrationis]

Hi,

Is it possible to set the board icons to a custom icon for each board? My current 2.0.15 forum has this set up (Not on a default theme, however), but the 2.1 rc2 test forum doesn't appear to have this functionality.

[Kindred]

if 2.0.x has it, you did it by a mod -- this is not a standard feature in any version of SMF.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

You can try this mod -

https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=4224

[Dominus Arbitrationis]

You can try this mod -

https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=4224

I like that mod, but it doesn't appear to support custom images. Am I just missing something there?

[Kindred]

You do realize that you apply custom images by CSS alone?

[Dominus Arbitrationis]

Yes. I was just hoping there would be a better system for it, like if there were an option when modifying boards to change the image to any you select. That way, people who don't know/can't be bothered to learn CSS can edit the images.

[Kindred]

in that case...   In theory this one should still work...

https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=511

[Bigguy]

No it doesn't. I have been trying to update it but at the present moment I have had no luck.

[Diego Andrés]

For the default theme you could do something like this:

Code (BoardIndex.template.php (Search)) Select Expand

// If the board or children is new, show an indicator.
if ($board['new'] || $board['children_new'])
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['theme_variant_url'], 'on', $board['new'] ? '' : '2', '.png" alt="', $txt['new_posts'], '" title="', $txt['new_posts'], '" />';
// Is it a redirection board?
elseif ($board['is_redirect'])
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['theme_variant_url'], 'redirect.png" alt="*" title="*" />';
// No new posts at all! The agony!!
else
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['theme_variant_url'], 'off.png" alt="', $txt['old_posts'], '" title="', $txt['old_posts'], '" />';

Code (Replace) Select Expand

// If the board or children is new, show an indicator.
if ($board['new'] || $board['children_new'])
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url']. '/boardicons/', $board['id'],'.png" alt="', $txt['new_posts'], '" title="', $txt['new_posts'], '" />';
// Is it a redirection board?
elseif ($board['is_redirect'])
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url']. '/boardicons/', $board['id'],'.png" alt="*" title="*" />';
// No new posts at all! The agony!!
else
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url']. '/boardicons/', $board['id'],'.png" alt="', $txt['old_posts'], '" title="', $txt['old_posts'], '" />';

Then add a new folder boardicons in Themes/{yourtheme}/images
And you add an image for each board by id. E.g. ?board=1.0, 1 is that forum ID so you save your icon as 1.png
Also could change this to your preference

Code Select Expand

// No new posts at all! The agony!!
else
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url']. '/boardicons/', $board['id'],'.png" alt="', $txt['old_posts'], '" title="', $txt['old_posts'], '" />';

Like using

Code Select Expand

// No new posts at all! The agony!!
else
echo '
<img src="', $settings['images_url']. '/boardicons/', $board['id'],'_off.png" alt="', $txt['old_posts'], '" title="', $txt['old_posts'], '" />';
So you can have 1_off.png for the off icon, or simply add an inline style for opacity

Regards

[Bigguy]

If that code is for 2.1, you pretty much just updated the cbi mod, lol.

[Diego Andrés]

That was for 2.0 I didn't read the title tbh
But it's pretty much the same just add your icon instead of using css

Code Select Expand

function template_bi_board_icon($board)
{
global $context, $scripturl;

echo '
<a href="', ($context['user']['is_guest'] ? $board['href'] : $scripturl . '?action=unread;board=' . $board['id'] . '.0;children'), '" class="board_', $board['board_class'], '"', !empty($board['board_tooltip']) ? ' title="' . $board['board_tooltip'] . '"' : '', '></a>';
}