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El_Muerte

11 Mar 2006, 19:42

'Post Icons Forum Permissions' allows you to restrict post icons to certain forums.
vBulletin only allows you to set permissions to user groups.

Another feature of this plugin is that it adds an option to group the post icons in the submission form. These groups are collapsable.

That's pretty much all this plugin does.
The plugin adds a new admincp page to the "Post Icons" groups that will allow you to set the permission for each forum. By default the post icon groups can be used in all forums.

To install simply copy the 'pifp.php' file to the admincp directory and install the product XML. You will need to reload the admincp menu frame in order for the new menu item to show up.

New in v1.0.1

Restrict usage to first post (the initial thread post)
Restrict usage to replies
Restrict usage in Private Message (or rather all non-forum posts) (first post and reply settings have no effect on this setting)

New in v1.1

Post icon grouping
You can enable this feature in the vbulletin settings under "Message Posting Interface Options" -> "Post icon grouping" (disabled by default)

New in v1.1.1

Initially only the category of the post icon group that contains the selected icon is not collapsed. If no post icon was set (new replies) the first group is collapsed. This way only one category will be open when editing or creating a post.

El_Muerte

11 Mar 2006, 19:42

Some screenshots of the AdminCP additions and the Post Icon Grouping from v1.1

AdminNation

11 Mar 2006, 20:26

Very cool. Will hit install once I download it later. One question though:

Could you set it so that certain icons could only be used in certain forums by specific groups? Such that an "Announcment" icon could only be used by Admins in the site news forum?

El_Muerte

11 Mar 2006, 21:46

yes, you simply have to set the premissions for the groups in the old fashion way and then set the forum permissions through this plugin.
The plugin extends the default behavior.

DevinM

11 Mar 2006, 22:18

This is awesome dude!!!!!

While it doesnt help me do everything I want, this is the next best thing!

Im gonna have a ton of icons in the NCAA forums. It would be cool if there were someway to categorize icons.

I will give it a go today.

reismarktq2

12 Mar 2006, 01:32

Gracias once again, Muerte. :)

/me clicks install.

reismarktq2

12 Mar 2006, 15:15

Muerte, I've discovered one problem with this hack that's somewhat more of an oversight than a bug: Even if you set a post icon group to only show up in a few particular forums, they will still all show up when using private messages. This, obviously, is undesirable. Any way it can be changed so that PMs are covered by the hack as well?

El_Muerte

12 Mar 2006, 16:23

crap.. forgot about that, well you are just in time, I was about to publish 1.0.1 that also added the following features:

restrict to:
* first post only
* reply only

but I guess I'll have to add a PM restriction too

DevinM

12 Mar 2006, 19:41

Great hack man!

Perhaps a folder version in future updates?

reismarktq2

12 Mar 2006, 19:59

You, sir, are awesome. :)

/me updates.

El_Muerte

12 Mar 2006, 20:13

Great hack man!

Perhaps a folder version in future updates?

Folder version? You mean collapsable post icon groups?

DevinM

19 Mar 2006, 16:40

Yeah! what a great addition man nice work!

I will be installing this today!

El_Muerte

19 Mar 2006, 17:33

ps, there is only one minor issue. by default the post icon groups are not collapsed. I haven't found a way to force the initial collapsing and still respect the stored collapsing.

DevinM

20 Mar 2006, 09:02

Well its a very useful hack, if you do end up resolving that minor bug ill re-install.

Already sent this link to a few admins I know needing something like this.

El_Muerte

21 Mar 2006, 20:55

Well that should take care of it all

reismarktq2

24 Mar 2006, 16:15

More awesome stuff, Muerte.

/me upgrades.

You may wanna rename the hack though, since grouping icons has absolutely nothing to do with their permissions whatsoever. ;)

El_Muerte

24 Mar 2006, 17:43

maybe, but I like the PIFP abreviation ;)

ForeverForums

14 May 2006, 17:10

Ive been looking for this for soooooooooo long. I finally found it while searching through ALL the hacks thanks so much for this very helpful hack :D

zippokid

18 May 2006, 05:07

This doesn't work for me. I get a message of this

Code:
---------------
Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
---------------

Any thoughts? I'd really like to implement this

bashy

25 Jun 2006, 13:36

Hi

This works well when creating a new thread, but when editing an older
thread since installing this hack the icons dont show that have been set for the said forums!!

Any advice please?

vibe

26 Jun 2006, 04:40

vibe

28 Jun 2006, 17:56

Okay, this is what I did:

I went ahead and delete "imagecategoryforums" table off from my SQL and re-imported the xml file and this is what I got.

Code:
---------------
Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
---------------

Can somebody advise me on this?
Thanks

zippokid

12 Jul 2006, 15:29

Same thing happened to me.

johnstires

11 Nov 2006, 20:21

Does this work for vb 3.6?

johnstires

12 Nov 2006, 14:41

Just tested, works great for 3.6

LBmtb

17 Dec 2006, 01:16

Mindwarp

26 Jan 2007, 19:33

anyways to keep it expanded so that the user did not have to?

DevinM

27 Jan 2007, 08:55

This hack works great for me on 3.6.4, by default it stays expanded for me. I didnt change anything.

RedGTiVR6

11 Jul 2007, 22:54

works great on 3.6.7PL1.

Just one question, I cannot for the life of me figure out where to set permissions based on user group for the post icons...

I checked the manual, all it says is that you change it at the usergroup level, but I cannot find that in the usergroups at all!

RedGTiVR6

13 Jul 2007, 23:41

welp, I've found an issue.

If I go into a thread that I have not created, and want to add in one of the new post icons that is assigned to a specific user group, it will show up fine from within the thread, however, if I go out to the thread litsings it does not show up.

But, if I edit a thread that I started and add in one of these icons, it will show up fine in the thread listings page.

Any ideas anyone?

cynthetiq

11 Aug 2007, 08:45

Installed. 3.6.8 works fine

Tact7626

28 Sep 2007, 03:56

love it. thank you. marked as installed

Geez

04 Oct 2007, 06:02

thank you!! awesome mod. exactly what i was looking for. about to install!

Geez

04 Oct 2007, 06:42

is there a way to chose which group i want collapsed? id rather have a certain group automatically opened other than the generic post icons. thank you.

Geez

04 Oct 2007, 06:45

or at least a way to have both expanded as a default? let me know please! thank you :)

RedGTiVR6

27 Feb 2008, 20:13

Any ideas if this will work on 3.7?

dope15gd

10 Jul 2008, 07:58

Any ideas if this will work on 3.7?

working for me on a default install.

thanks OP

robbiefritz

12 Jan 2009, 00:15

Anything updated for 3.7?

DevinM

03 Feb 2011, 20:56

I wish this was able to work on 4.1!!!!!!!

kpmedia

06 Jun 2011, 12:04

Works well on 3.7 and 3.8.
Thanks.

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