Forumbit Tool Icons

To enhance the visitors’ experience, you can add some quick tools to your forum display. You can see these icons here on nexialys.net, and here is a clear screenshot of what they look like:

nex_forumbit_toolicons.jpg

As you see the 4 icons, and here what they are: (the title appear when you hover on them)

– create new thread in that forum
– list new posts/threads in that forum
– subscribe to that forum
– RSS Feed for that forum

… they are all permission based, so if you have no permission to post, the icon New Thread will not show… same for the search and subscribe.

As usual, that modification is without any code or template edits.

The icons are copyrighted, but you can change them when you want… you can also edit the template “forumhome_forumbit_toolicons” to make it look the way you want… like adding a border, or making them vertical instead of horizontal…

If you have Cyb Subforums Manager, you will have to edit the forumbit templates to your taste…

This tweak is better used if you drop the Threads/Posts columns in your forumbits templates.

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26 thoughts on “Forumbit Tool Icons”

  1. KURTZ dit :

    nexy i’ve got an older version of this hack that you gave me … so i’ve upgraded to this 1.0.3 (my older was 1.0.0) … but like you can see the background is weird onto my darker board … so i’m wondering how i can fix this 🙂

    FNIV – Federazione Italiana Videogiocatori

    thanks

  2. nexia dit :

    the template forumhome_forumbit_toolicons is the key… check the first elements of it, and there is style applied… you can edit as you like!

  3. KURTZ dit :

    you mena this part of the code Nexy? thanks 🙂

    Code:
  4. nexia dit :

    yeap… see, background-color: #FFFFFF. ….. that make it white.. 🙂

    Web colors – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  5. KURTZ dit :

    OK i’m back 😀

    Nexy, maybe there is a trouble in this hack 🙂 if you set a forum like a link the others icon are still there and clickable … 🙂

    also right now i can’t subscribe to a specific forum, maybe do you have disable this feature?

    many thanks

  6. nexia dit :

    thanks Kurtz, i never thought of the forum links… will change that. i’ll check the subscription too, but it’s the default engine from vB, i did not change a thing in it, just a different way to display the link.

  7. KURTZ dit :

    @nexia 20691 wrote:

    thanks Kurtz, i never thought of the forum links… will change that. i’ll check the subscription too, but it’s the default engine from vB, i did not change a thing in it, just a different way to display the link.

    Nexy, here you can subscribe to a specific forum like you can see:
    FNIV – Federazione Italiana Videogiocatori

    and here i’ve installed the 1.0.0 version of this hack …

    meawhile, i’ve installed the 1.3.0 versione (the latest) onto my testing board here:
    Forums – Powered by vBulletin

    and like you can see there isn’t any link to subscribe to a forum … (also you can see the forum link trouble that i said before)

  8. KURTZ dit :

    in the attachment i put the 1.0.0, so you can see the differences 🙂

  9. nexia dit :

    ok, i’ll check where is my error… thanks for the old file.. lol… i never keep those.

    i think it’s just related to permissions to subscribe, i’ll check that.

  10. Lightning dit :

    Is there any way to turn off the thread/post count from the forumdisplay, since this nifty tool tells us the thread/post counts? I couldn’t find it in the options.

  11. nexia dit :

    there is no option, but you can easily edit the product to delete the details you do not like…

  12. Lightning dit :

    I’m afraid I lack the technical understanding of vBulletin’s call functions to do that. Any pointers?

  13. Calystos dit :

    One thing people can do is change the “#FFFFFF” to “transparent” an thus that background will vanish an you can then use it on any system without problems.

    I quickly modded the version I just downloaded so that the product you import is already set to transparent mode. I can’t upload, but if anyone wants a copy feel free to PM me an I’ll sort something out for ya, 🙂
    Course, long as thats okay with nexia.

  14. nexia dit :

    ya, you just gave the TUTO for the tips.. 😉

  15. Calystos dit :

    No probs, always glad to help out wherever I can.

    A friend of mine an I used the transparency option to mod the dropdown menus on our site to make the navbar system work a lot better. Specially when theres like say 20+ menu items, so we switched it to being side-by-side (by-side if needed, lol) instead of one giant list. As well as making them all in their own groups as such. You can see what I mean if you go to my site (dp.gotdns.com) an click on the Games navbar menu option. Course its not finished, but still you’ll get the point.

  16. nexia dit :

    suckerfish technique, for CSS pure XHTML only… Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns | HTML Dog

  17. MsJac dit :

    Very nice = Thanks Nex 🙂

    Jacquii.

  18. jaderollie dit :

    i see no permissions, how do i turn it on to get icons working please??
    basically the pictures dont show on forum

  19. pcam dit :

    screenshot.png

    Where did I go wrong?

    Thanks in advance

  20. nexia dit :

    hum, you have html in your coding here… not related to this hack, you have to edit the phrases.

  21. pcam dit :

    This is the original which I copied and pasted into Template: forumhome_forumbit_toolicons


     $vbphrase[forumhome_createnew_x]”>
     $vbphrase[forumhome_newpostsin_x]”>
     $vbphrase[forumhome_subscribeto_x]”>
    $vbphrase[forumhome_rssto_x]”>

    $forum[replycount] $vbphrase[posts] in $forum[threadcount] $vbphrase[threads]

    I assume this is a template solely for your mod, so I don’t understand how it could have been altered?

    Btw: Thanks for your mods

  22. nexia dit :

    it was not altered, you copied/pasted it properly, but some text contain a character that the template hates…

  23. pcam dit :

    Is there anything I can do to resolve this?

    I’d really like to implement this feature.

    Also, does this prevent people without access to the forum to be able to subscribe via rss or is there another solution somewhere that prevents rss url’s from being linked to those unauthorized?

  24. nexia dit :

    1- the html leak i have no idea… did the code work originally from the plugin? *(as it already work on 200++ sites without a problem, it may be something on your site.)

    2- permissions on icons and functions are permissions based… so if the icon shows up, it’s because the member have access via his permissions… if there is a bug in the icon show, no problem, because having access to the rss feed is also based on access… the icons are not the functions, just access to them.

  25. SorentoUltimate dit :

    Great AddOn.

    Can u add 3 More Options?
    1.Subscribe (OK See Edit)
    2.If Subscribed not Appear Subscribe but UnSubscribe
    3.Mark Forum As Read

    Thanks In Advance
    Sorento Ultimate


    EDIT


    After i change $userinfo to $vbulletin->userinfo
    at forumhome_forumbit_toolicons Template the Subscribe Work

  26. nexia dit :

    OH, thanks for the typo corrected Sorento.

    ok, let’s see:

    1- you brought the correct typo, will update
    2- subscription require another query, i’ll see if it work without and will edit.
    3- great suggestion… will find a great icon for it!

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