Forum Display Enhancements - Digital Point Thread Avatars

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to maintain and support this add-on in two locations. The newest version (and support) can always be found here: https://marketplace.digitalpoint.com...atars.886/item

About
This changes thread icons to be the avatar of the thread starter. It applies to thread listings on forumdisplay, search results and subscribed threads in the UserCP.

Installation

• Upload the cssrollup_digitalpoint_threadavatars.xml file to includes/xml (this is really only needed if you store CSS as files in the file system)
• Install the product-dp_thread_avatars.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

Notes

• Icons are cropped (but never stretched) to be square for display.
• Threads with no new posts have the avatar slightly greyed out.
• Locked threads will have a lock image overlayed.
• Soft-deleted threads will have a red X image overlayed.
• If the user posted in the thread, they will see a mini version of their avatar overlayed.
• If a thread is "hot", the shadow of the icon will change color.
• ZERO SQL queries are added.
• Overlay images are encoded as CSS data (no extra HTTP requests needed for images or the CSS files themselves).
• If your site uses pre-defined avatars, they are not scaled down for use as the icon since vBulletin does not store the dimensions (instead, the upper/left potion is cropped for the icon).

Settings

• You can disable the mini-avatars under AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) -> Highlight Threads in Which User Has Posted
• You can disable the hot thread highlight under AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) -> Hot Threads Enabled
• You can change the color of the hot thread shadow under AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> StyleVars -> dpta_shadow_hot_color
• You can change the size of the avatar under AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> StyleVars -> threadbit_iconsize (since they are square, it keys only on width)
• If your site uses pre-defined avatars, you should use the AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> User Picture Options -> Site Uses Pre-Defined Avatars option

Screenshots


Advanced

• If you want to add your own mini-icon overlays, you can utilize the $template_hook['thread_avatars'] variable to do so.
• If you want to selectively disable thread avatars, you can set the $show['hide_thread_avatars'] to true. This would allow you to create a custom profile field for users and set the $show['hide_thread_avatars'] based on the user's setting. Alternately you could enable the addon for certain usergroups or just for specific styles.

[digitalpoint]

Has your FORUMDISPLAY template been modified?

Specifically, does it still contain this?

{vb:cssfile toolsmenu.css,forumbits.css,forumdisplay.css,threadlist.css,options.css}

[pokusek]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Has your FORUMDISPLAY template been modified?

No.

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Specifically, does it still contain this?

{vb:cssfile toolsmenu.css,forumbits.css,forumdisplay.css,threadlist.css,options.css}

Yes. Should I remove it?

	<vb:if condition="$vboptions['storecssasfile']">
		{vb:cssfile forumdisplay-rollup.css}
	<vb:else />
		{vb:cssfile toolsmenu.css,forumbits.css,forumdisplay.css,threadlist.css,options.css}
	</vb:if>

[digitalpoint]

No, it should be there... you could just change that line to this if you want to do what the plug-in is supposed to be doing automatically:

{vb:cssfile toolsmenu.css,forumbits.css,forumdisplay.css,threadlist.css,dpta.css,options.css}

[pokusek]

Solved. I am a little bit embarrassed, I forget that modification called "Nexia's Forum Sidebar Everywhere" has its own version of FORUMDISPLAY template (so your plugin could not include the name of the CSS file there). I changed it and now it works fine.

Thank you for your help. Please add in the description of this modification a note about this problem so everyone who uses the mod for displaying sidebar on all pages won't wonder why it is not working for them.

[thecore762]

Hi dp, could you make this compatible with the activity stream page?
http://www.47r-squad.com/activity.php
I know it currently works with the new posts, but it would be nice to be compatible with the activity stream too.

[pokusek]

Sometimes I can see this image in the thread avatar when unregistered people start a thread: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/image.php?u=0

Any idea what might be causing it?

[pokusek]

It looks like this:

[digitalpoint]

Is it only doing it for unregistered users?

[pokusek]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Is it only doing it for unregistered users?

Yes. But only for some of them (1 of 5 users has this image as an avatar), which is weird.

[digitalpoint]

What is the URL of the avatar showing for them?