Activity Feed

BobHoil

So I noticed Vanilla had an activity feed and I was wondering if there was a way to "add" to that activity feed when someone does something on the main front area of my site such as play a game. I am working on integrating Vanilla with my arcade and hope to have a sort of social arcade thing going here soon.

BobHoil

Can I get some tips?

Todd

I'm a bit reluctant to give you tips as we are giving a severe rethink to the activity feed in a future version.

However, here's what you want to do:
Register the activity type:

Gdn::SQL()->Replace('ActivityType', 
  array('AllowComments' => '1', 
    'FullHeadline' => '%1$s created an account for %3$s.', 
    'ProfileHeadline' => '%1$s created an account for %3$s.'), 
    array('Name' => 'JoinCreated'), TRUE);

When you want to add an activity call the AddActivity() function. The ins and outs of formatting your activity name can be found in Gdn_Format::Activity().

BobHoil

Okay thanks! I will try it out and see what I can get working.

shah2010

@Todd I hope the next activity reaches to the level of FB Wall / Newsfeed, making it possible to post links into it which will display abstracts.

Todd

@shah2010, our goal is to do that type of thing for discussions too which are at the end of the day the most important part of a forum.

shah2010

@Todd, great, thats even better.

uniclue

@Todd, that sound's awesome!

shah2010

@Todd, I am wondering this 'fb Newsfeed' style Discussion and Activity Feed version/ that you have in pipeline/ will it come out anytime within next 2 months/ i am in need of a QnA + Links website / love the vanilla so much, just dont want move anywhere else.