[Guide] Discussion Thumbnail in FrontPage

Aolee

Update: There is now a plugin that does this. Also check out the Vanillicon indenticon plugin.

Hi Guys,

Just want to share with you on how i did the display of user thumbnails, who commented on each discussion title (in forum's frontpage), see demo here => http://www.pinoyau.info

There's still no plugin for this so, this guide is just a workaround.

affected files are the ff:

1. /applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php

Add the bold ones in the line: (note: pls correct the syntax of div tags (meaning remove the spaces on < / div > < div )

< div class="ItemContent Discussion">< div style="float:left;margin-right:10px;margin-top:5px;"><?php echo UserPhoto(is_null($Last->UserID)?$First:$Last); ?>< / div >< div >

And this line From:

$Sender->FireEvent('DiscussionMeta');
?>
< / div >
< / div >
< div style="clear:both">< /div>
< / div>


2. /plugins/Gravatar/default.php

Add is_null from the condition line: if ($User->Photo == '' && property_exists($Object, $Email)|| is_null($User->Photo)) {


3. /applications/vanilla/models/class.discussionmodel.php

Add the "->Select('lcu.Photo', '', 'LastPhoto')" in public function DiscussionSummaryQuery($AdditionalFields = array()) { after this line:

->Select('lcu.Name', '', 'LastName')
->Select('lcu.Photo', '', 'LastPhoto')

yu_tang

Thanks!
I think it works better in combination with Identicon5 plugin.
I'ｌｌ do it.

Aolee

addition to the code in step 3.

->Select('lcu.Name', '', 'LastName')
->Select('lcu.Photo', '', 'LastPhoto')
->Select('lcu.Email', '', 'LastEmail') //<-- last user's email <== gravatar encrypts the email and uses it as the id</b>

tester13

I hope to find this present in next Vanilla release.

shah2010

this is great. can anyone make this a plugin for the moment?

tjforsythe

thanks !!! It worked for me.

tester13

Thsnks, added to tips at
http://www.vanilla-wiki.info/Bugs/VariousTips

zuzuzu

this is great, but instead of showing avatars i would like to use category icons. How can i do it?

ricardodepaula

I was looking for this! Thanks!

batters

Thanks, but how to do avatars of authors of discussion? not avatar of recent user in discussion? please ansver me

ntuyelik

thank you, it looks really nice now : http://www.herkesuzman.com

Aolee

thank you, it looks really nice now : http://www.herkesuzman.com

cool one you got there!

Aolee

thank you, it looks really nice now : http://www.herkesuzman.com

hi ntuyelik, may i ask how you did the tab thing?

Aolee

Thanks, but how to do avatars of authors of discussion? not avatar of recent user in discussion? please ansver me

try changing this line
FROM
<div class="ItemContent Discussion"><div class="mainthumb50"><?php echo UserPhoto(is_null($Last->UserID)?$First:$Last); ?></div><div>
TO
<div class="ItemContent Discussion"><div class="mainthumb50"><?php echo UserPhoto($First); ?></div><div>

on file

/applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php

batters

try changing this line
FROM
<div class="ItemContent Discussion"><div class="mainthumb50"><?php echo UserPhoto(is_null($Last->UserID)?$First:$Last); ?></div><div>
TO
<div class="ItemContent Discussion"><div class="mainthumb50"><?php echo UserPhoto($First); ?></div><div>

on file

/applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php

thanks, works, but avatars are too big on the front page, if they can be reduced from 50x50px to 32x32px?

Aolee

you can either
1. go to /applications/dashboard/design/style.css and modify
div.mainthumb50 img {
height: 50px; //32px
width: 50px; //32px
}

or create a new css there like

div.mainthumb32 img {
height: 32px;
width: 32px;
}

and change the class="mainthumb50" to class="mainthumb32" in /applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php

Aolee

problem with 32x32 is ... if the title become 2liner long the next line pushes below the image.

batters

thanks Aolee, everything works ok

Aolee

np

c5rockstars

Hey I was unable to pull the first comment. The last comment works great...

Aolee

do you want the first comment or the avatar of the person who created the thread?