Module SlotType

nimh

Vanilla: Version 2.1.5 / Yaga Version 1.0.3

I'm attempting to load the leaderboard module on the panel of every page.

I've added:

          {if !InSection ("ActivityList")}
          {module name="LeaderBoardModule" SlotType="w"}
          {/if}

Tip was taken from this post: http://blog.vanillaforums.com/help/vanilla-forums-friday-theme-tip-adding-leaderboard/

It works but only loads the All Time Leaders, which as I understood is only supposed to work with an "a" SlotType. I'm mostly interested in it working with "m" as monthly seemed better for smaller (and slower) communities.

Emptying the cache had no effect. Any ideas?

peregrine

you want it on the Activity Controller - try this 

    public function ActivityController_Render_Before($Sender) {
    $this->_AddResources($Sender);
    if(C('Yaga.LeaderBoard.Enabled', FALSE)) {
    // add leaderboard modules to the activity page
    $Module = new LeaderBoardModule();
    $Module->GetData('w');
    $Sender->AddModule($Module);
    }

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/28180/yaga-leaderboardmodule-render-on-recent-discussions-page-in-panel-not-on-activity-page#latest

hgtonight

Thanks for using my addon!

Yaga has similar but not identical functionality. The leaderboard module I wrote does not accept constructor variables to set type. I rely on calling a second GetData($SlotType) method after creation.

This means my module cannot be added via smarty as anything other than 'All Time Leaders'.

I would welcome a patch that changes this and will add it to the issue list over on GitHub: https://github.com/hgtonight/Application-Yaga/issues/52

nimh

Thank you, it works in a plugin nicely, switching to a DiscussionsController places it on Recent Discussions, but not on any other page (particularly would like it on ItemDiscussions too.) I tried Base_Render but we've got it everywhere now, and thus dupes itself on Activity.

peregrine

you could either

• A
  clone the DiscussionsController method and add DiscussionController as well

or you could

• B

      public function Base_Render_Before($Sender) { 
  
      $Controller = $Sender->ControllerName;
  
        // show module on these 3 controllers
       $ShowOnController = array(
                      'discussioncontroller',
                      'discussionscontroller',
                      'categoriescontroller'
                     );
  
       if (!InArrayI($Controller, $ShowOnController))
                       return;
      $this->_AddResources($Sender);
      if(C('Yaga.LeaderBoard.Enabled', FALSE)) {
  
      $Module = new LeaderBoardModule();
      $Module->GetData('w');
      $Sender->AddModule($Module);
  
        }
  

nimh

Perfection, added categoriescontroller too, and learned a bit along the way. Thanks for the help!