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.

[valendono]

Originally Posted by thecore762

I did rebuild the counters.
So filesystem works for you?

i have 4.1.3 installed with filesystem css. and it's worked fine.

[thecore762]

Well I don't know why it's not working for me....everything else works fine with filesystem except this.

[vexxy]

and that flag hover thingy you got going on @ DP, is it a separate plug or you don't plan on releasing that one yet?

[vexxy]

and one more thing, everything works great, but pre-defined avatars aren't resized properly.

Edit: I don't know how I miss reading this in the details:

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).

Is there any workaround for this? Unfortunately, 70% of my users use pre-defined avatars or to force this somehow, my pre-defined avatars are the same fixed size

[BadgerDog]

Installed this with thanks ...

Tested with v4.1.3pl1 and avatars didn't appear....

Uninstalled ...

Regards,
Doug

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by vexxy

and that flag hover thingy you got going on @ DP, is it a separate plug or you don't plan on releasing that one yet?

It's a totally separate thing... probably not going to release that as it's just one small part of a much larger framework we use (it's not an isolated/installable thing).

Originally Posted by vexxy

and one more thing, everything works great, but pre-defined avatars aren't resized properly.

Edit: I don't know how I miss reading this in the details:



Is there any workaround for this? Unfortunately, 70% of my users use pre-defined avatars or to force this somehow, my pre-defined avatars are the same fixed size

No, there is no workaround since vB doesn't store the dimensions (we can't calculate the scaling without knowing the size to start with).

[stusgarage]

After uninstalling this mod I'm stuck with "misc/unknown.gif" next to every post the user replies to:



Forcing me to disable "Highlight Threads in Which User Has Posted" in Forum Display Options.

I've tried reinstalling/reuninstalling your mod and rebuilding the style, neither correct it.

vb 4.1.3, landthieves.com

[digitalpoint]

Strange... did you disable it before uninstalling it by chance? There is some trickery it has to do with compiled templates, so if it's disabled when you run the uninstall, it can't do the necessary cleanup.

[stusgarage]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Strange... did you disable it before uninstalling it by chance? There is some trickery it has to do with compiled templates, so if it's disabled when you run the uninstall, it can't do the necessary cleanup.

I did uninstall with the product disabled.

The problem has been fixed, however. I believe our cdn server had cached the css and, as it only refreshes once a day, it didn't take note of the uninstall.

[thecore762]

Originally Posted by vexxy

and one more thing, everything works great, but pre-defined avatars aren't resized properly.

Edit: I don't know how I miss reading this in the details:



Is there any workaround for this? Unfortunately, 70% of my users use pre-defined avatars or to force this somehow, my pre-defined avatars are the same fixed size

I think that's probably why if I enable CSS storing the avatars all look messed up for me.