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.

[Juggernaut]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

An example of the sort of thing you could do with the new hook location...

On digitalpoint.com, premium members can see the "true country" of a poster... I extended it a bit so premium members show the flag of the country the thread starter is in. I made it so the flag only shows when you mouseover the thread (that way it's normally hidden so it's not too obnoxious).

That's awesome

[alfanexus]

When this plugin is enabled it sometimes courses an error on search results. To make sure that its not just on my test site it happens, I testet this on digitalpoint.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/searc...4927464&page=3 searched for "service" and got the following error on page 3:
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/packages/vbforum/search/result/thread.php(194) : eval()'d code on line 10

Another search for "rebel" page 14 (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/searc...927528&page=14)


It dosent happen that often on your site, its more frequent on my internal testsite.

[digitalpoint]

Hmmm... yeah, that could happen if search results returns a thread that was created by a user that no longer exists. If you open the plug-in at the search_results_threadbit location, change this:

PHP Code:

$thread = array_merge($thread, $avatar_info); 


to this:

PHP Code:

$thread = array_merge($thread, (array)$avatar_info); 


I made the change to our dev version, so will be part of next version.

[alfanexus]

wow you are fast works perfectly, thanks!

[nacaruncr]

Who I can change in the mini-avatar the title say "Thread description...." for the username of the mini-avatar??

excuse me my english :S

[cykelmyggen]

Installed - working perfect - nominated for MOTM

[grey_goose]

This is beautiful and amazing -- thank you so much. Nom'd.

[Mostjolly]

Hey Shawn,

Thanks for sharing this fantastic hack, is it possible you can add the rounded border effect avatar for "Postbit" template, I've attached the attachment, hopefully it'll give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

Nhat

[digitalpoint]

That would really just be a CSS entry. Add this to your additional.css template and it should work...

.postbit .postuseravatarlink img {
	padding: 5px;
	border: 5px solid blue;
	border-radius: 15px;
}

Obviously replace the blue color with whatever you want.

[Mostjolly]

Thanks that was easy,

Also are you planning to integrate the exact functionality for the "Forumhome" page listing? (see attachment)

Hmmm.. and for a more advanced developments, I was thinking you could use this same feature for the "Quote" functionality, so basically when I quoted you.. you'd see a little avatar of me at the top bottom right of your avatar.. it's pretty sweet knowing who you're/they're directly communicating to

Nhat