Creating a Plugin to add custom icons to Forums

[Greg Rice]

I've been working my way through the Plugin documentation, but it's not very comprehensive. Can someone offer some advice/tips about how to approach creating a Plugin that allows for Admin users to upload their custom icons into some sort of a library, and then for users to be able to assign one of the icons to a specific thread?

As I understand it, I need to:

Create Theme Hooks (front: forums): One for where the icon is chosen by the thread starter, and another for where the chosen icon will appear.

Create a Setting to allow admin to upload new icons.

Then create database columns to store the icon and topic IDs.

Finally create a Code Hook to read and write all the above.

Is that about right?

It seems to me that creating a new table for the icon library might be in order, but it's not clear from the documentation how this might be done?

[Adriano Faria]

1 minute ago, Greg Rice said:

Create a Setting to allow admin to upload new icons.

Then create database columns to store the icon and topic IDs.

Best way to go is extend \IPS\forums\Forum::form() to add a new tab. Example:

	/**
	 * [Node] Add/Edit Form
	 *
	 * @param	\IPS\Helpers\Form	$form	The form
	 * @return	void
	 */
	public function form( &$form )
	{
		$data = parent::form( $form );

		$form->addTab( 'icon_lang_bit' );
		$form->add( new \IPS\Helpers\Form\Upload( ..... );

		return $data;
	}

	/**
	 * [Node] Format form values from add/edit form for save
	 *
	 * @param	array	$values	Values from the form
	 * @return	array
	 */
	public function formatFormValues( $values )
	{
		//process the field, if necessary.

		return parent::formatFormValues( $values );
	}

That would create  a new tab, like:

[Adriano Faria]

Btw, forum icon is already a feature since IPS 4.0.0.

[newbie LAC]

15 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Btw, forum icon is already a feature since IPS 4.0.0.

Topic starter wants topic icons

 

[Adriano Faria]

1 hour ago, newbie LAC said:

Topic starter wants topic icons

Oh yes, it's in the end of first paragraph. Too long to read. Gone by the title.