Simplest solution :-

<div class="bPost inCat<?php echo $Item->main_cat_ID; ?>" lang="<?php $Item->lang() ?>">
		<?php
			$Item->anchor(); // Anchor for permalinks to refer to
		?>
		<div class="bText">
		<div class="imgPad">&nbsp;</div>
			<?php $Item->content(); ?>

/* change the category numbers to match your own */
.imgPad{
display:none;
width:100px; /* change to your image width */
height:100px; /* change to your image height */
float:left;
background:center center no-repeat;
}

.inCat1 .imgPad{
display:block;
background-image:url( img/picture.jpg);
}


.inCat2 .imgPad{
display:block;
background-image:url( img/picture2.jpg);
}

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hmmm i just tried this out but it didn't work somehow :/
what does this part

<div class="bPost inCat'.$Item->main_cat_ID.'"" lang="<?php $Item->lang() ?>"> 

do? thanks so far :)

Herm wrote:

hmmm i just tried this out but it didn't work somehow :/
what does this part

<div class="bPost inCat'.$Item->main_cat_ID.'"" lang="<?php $Item->lang() ?>"> 

do? thanks so far :)

yeh i also tried it and the more i get is the text area width reduced to leave a blank space for the supposed image, though the image does not load.

this part is meant to "write" the following html code in the final post view

<div class="bPost inCat42" lang="en-UK"> 

where 42 is the number of the category to which you want to set a default image.

i do not know much about PHP code, but the solution seems to be good though there's some problem in the code. if it could be checked it would be great.

If your category ID == 42 then you need to be defining the following class in your css, you'd obviously need to change the image path/filename to suit.

.inCat42 .imgPad{
display:block;
background-image:url( img/picture.jpg);
}

If you still can't get the images to load then just leave a link to your blog so I can see what's going wrong

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i changed the first line into:

<div class="bPost inCat<?php echo "$Item->main_cat_ID" ?>"> 

and now everything works fine :)

Lol, ooops, in my _main.php I'm echoing the whole of that line :p

I've corrected my original post :P

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yeeeeh!! that's it!! thanks a lot folks!! ;)