Forum Display Enhancements - Xenforo Like User Avatars

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What does this plugin do?

This plugin add user avatars to the thread listing in forum display page. See the sceenshot for sample.

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Installation Instructions

This plugin requires you to manually edit templates.

Import the xml file as product into vBulletin.

1. Edit threadbit template as follows

Find

$thread[title_editable]

And add the following code before.

<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$thread[postuserid]" rel="nofollow"><img height="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="$thread[avatarurl]" border="0" /></a>

Find

<td class="alt2" title="<phrase 1="$thread[replycount]" 2="$thread[views]">$vbphrase[replies_x_views_y]</phrase>">

And add the following code after.

<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&t=$thread[threadid]" rel="nofollow"><img height="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="$thread[lastposteravatarurl]" border="0" /></a>

Optionally you can edit the username to be left aligned rather than right aligned. Find

<div class="smallfont" style="text-align:$stylevar[right]; white-space:nowrap">

Replace with

<div class="smallfont" style="text-align:$stylevar[left]; white-space:nowrap;padding-left:32px;">

2. Edit forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post as follows

Find

<td class="alt2">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

Replace with

<td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?find=lastposter&f=$forum[forumid]" rel="nofollow"><img height="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="$forum[avatarurl]" border="0" /></a><div style="padding-left:36px;">$forum[lastpostinfo]</div></td>

3. Edit Search_result_postbit template as follows

Find

	<if condition="$show['moderated']">
	<td class="alt2">
	<else />
	<td class="alt1">
	</if>

Add the following code below

<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]" rel="nofollow"><img height="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="$post[avatarurl]" border="0" /></a>

Support

This plugin is supported, so you can post your issues and queries either on my blog or in comments below.

If you would like to Optimize your vBulletin for Less Server Load & Better User Experience, read this post on Optimizing vBulletin

See the plugin in action at MBA Forum

Enjoy the plugin and do share your views, comments or feedback in comments below.

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by realmr

any additional queries run ? And how good is this with the load of the forums ?

Yes. One for each image and I have not bottlenecked it against load.

Originally Posted by great kitten

I leave as it appears in the list of private messages, and went up the first image that is as it should be

use the version 3.8.7

Not sure what you are saying but I am using myself on my MBA Forum without any such thing for PMs.

Originally Posted by Artes_Marciales

is a shame because the modification is very nice

Not sure how else we could fetch the avatars because adding a join to the avatar table with threads/posts table is much more costlier operation for large forums anyway.

[JohnT]

I'm not liking how each avatar size is different, depending on the user's avatar. Can we make it so that they're all one fixed size?

[FreshFroot]

Yeah query wise it is intensive.. though I have xenforo and haven't seen how they must have reduced it. I'm know for sure XF does not have too many queries.. pretty optimized.

[Hellmaster]

Looks great, but my forums seems to be all piled...

[JohnT]

Originally Posted by JohnT

I'm not liking how each avatar size is different, depending on the user's avatar. Can we make it so that they're all one fixed size?

Anything?

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by JohnT

Anything?

This would mean distortion of image.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by shabbirbhimani

This would mean distortion of image.

To make it the same as XenForo you need to add a image-crop tool:
http://keithics.com/blog/jquery/ajax...-php-crop-tool
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/02/be...o-use-for.html

If you add that, then all avatars will show as equal dimensions, without distortion.

[shabbirbhimani]

That would mean we have to add jQuery as well and vBulletin does not use jQuery and s I have no plans to add it.

[Alfa1]

vbulletin has this directory for jquery: clientscript/jquery/

vbulletin is moving away from YUI and implementing jquery more and more. They intent to drop YUI completely.

[Goomzee]

thanks works fine