Need to move tag/indicator from meta to title

Zhaan

Hiya, hope y'all had a good xmas & NYE!

As for my problem -- I want to move the "tag" indicator ("Announcement", "Closed", etc.) from the discussion meta field to the actual discussion title. I basically want it to look like this:

[Closed] This is a very important topic title.

I've been digging around inside views/discussions/helper_functions.php, but I'm not quite sure what to do. Could any of you guys help me out?

Using 2.1.7, default theme. Any help will be appreciated!

R_J

Look at this plugin in order to see how you can put something before a discussion title: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/prefixdiscussion-plugin

You basically just have to check if a discussion is an announcement and then prefix it like that. I don't know how to prevent the regular "Announcement" strings without looking at the code right now, but you might want to start with the discussion title

peregrine

@Zhaan - here is a third option. not sure what your goal is. space or highlighting.

removes announcement and close meta tags. puts a span headmine above announcement.

modify css as you desire based on classes in span in plugin e.g. .Announcement-Alert

you could add this to your custom.css

  .Item.Announcement {
  background-color: red;
 }

span.Tag.Tag-Announcement, span.Tag.Tag-Closed {
 display:none;
}

 .Announcement-Alert {
    background-color: green;
}

and this plugin

plugins/AnnouncementAlert/default.php

<?php if(!defined('APPLICATION')) die();

$PluginInfo['AnnouncementAlert'] = array(
    'Version' => '1.0',
     'Name' => 'AnnouncementAlert',
         'Description' => 'Place a  Label above Announcement to highlight and use custom.css',
         'MobileFriendly' => TRUE,
     'Author' => 'p'
);

class AnnouncementAlertPlugin extends Gdn_Plugin {



    public function DiscussionsController_BeforeDiscussionName_Handler($Sender) {
       $Discussion = $Sender->EventArguments["Discussion"];
         if(val('Announce', $Discussion) >= 1) {     
              echo wrap(wrap(T("Please Read The Announcement below very important"), 'h1 span', array('class' => "Announcement-Alert")), 'li');
              }
    }

    public function CategoriesController_BeforeDiscussionName_Handler($Sender) {
        $Discussion = $Sender->EventArguments["Discussion"];
         if(val('Announce', $Discussion) >= 1) {     
              echo wrap(wrap(T("Please Read The Announcement below very important"), 'h1 span', array('class' => "Announcement-Alert")), 'li');
              }
    }

}

R_J

CSS is the most easiest way. You can also overwrite the function WriteTags. That's the original code:

function WriteTags($Discussion) {
   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('BeforeDiscussionMeta');

   echo Tag($Discussion, 'Announce', 'Announcement');
   echo Tag($Discussion, 'Closed', 'Closed');

   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('AfterDiscussionLabels');
}

If you are already writing a custom plugin, you can also add that lines at the very end of your custom plugin (even after the closing bracket of your custom plugin class!)

function WriteTags($Discussion) {
   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('BeforeDiscussionMeta');
   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('AfterDiscussionLabels');
}

R_J

Look at this plugin in order to see how you can put something before a discussion title: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/prefixdiscussion-plugin

You basically just have to check if a discussion is an announcement and then prefix it like that. I don't know how to prevent the regular "Announcement" strings without looking at the code right now, but you might want to start with the discussion title

peregrine

if you are going to go with r_j's plugin. which would be the simplest way to do it.

then just use css element focus in on class to hide the Tag with a display:none

Tag-Announcement

do the same thing with Closed.

the other way you could do it is via your own plugin

and check for Announcements,,,,

perhaps in Discussion name handler

 $Discussion = $Sender->EventArguments["Discussion"];
  if(val('Announce', $Discussion) >= 1) {

     insert code to change title.


 }

add css to remove tag.

peregrine

@Zhaan - here is a third option. not sure what your goal is. space or highlighting.

removes announcement and close meta tags. puts a span headmine above announcement.

modify css as you desire based on classes in span in plugin e.g. .Announcement-Alert

you could add this to your custom.css

  .Item.Announcement {
  background-color: red;
 }

span.Tag.Tag-Announcement, span.Tag.Tag-Closed {
 display:none;
}

 .Announcement-Alert {
    background-color: green;
}

and this plugin

plugins/AnnouncementAlert/default.php

<?php if(!defined('APPLICATION')) die();

$PluginInfo['AnnouncementAlert'] = array(
    'Version' => '1.0',
     'Name' => 'AnnouncementAlert',
         'Description' => 'Place a  Label above Announcement to highlight and use custom.css',
         'MobileFriendly' => TRUE,
     'Author' => 'p'
);

class AnnouncementAlertPlugin extends Gdn_Plugin {



    public function DiscussionsController_BeforeDiscussionName_Handler($Sender) {
       $Discussion = $Sender->EventArguments["Discussion"];
         if(val('Announce', $Discussion) >= 1) {     
              echo wrap(wrap(T("Please Read The Announcement below very important"), 'h1 span', array('class' => "Announcement-Alert")), 'li');
              }
    }

    public function CategoriesController_BeforeDiscussionName_Handler($Sender) {
        $Discussion = $Sender->EventArguments["Discussion"];
         if(val('Announce', $Discussion) >= 1) {     
              echo wrap(wrap(T("Please Read The Announcement below very important"), 'h1 span', array('class' => "Announcement-Alert")), 'li');
              }
    }

}

R_J

CSS is the most easiest way. You can also overwrite the function WriteTags. That's the original code:

function WriteTags($Discussion) {
   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('BeforeDiscussionMeta');

   echo Tag($Discussion, 'Announce', 'Announcement');
   echo Tag($Discussion, 'Closed', 'Closed');

   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('AfterDiscussionLabels');
}

If you are already writing a custom plugin, you can also add that lines at the very end of your custom plugin (even after the closing bracket of your custom plugin class!)

function WriteTags($Discussion) {
   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('BeforeDiscussionMeta');
   Gdn::Controller()->FireEvent('AfterDiscussionLabels');
}

peregrine

yes it depends on his ultimate reason for doing what he wants to do.

r_j - you didn't like my xmas effect

could change it to the colors of your country flag

R_J

@peregrine said:
r_j - you didn't like my xmas effect

It definitely needs some reindeers

peregrine

.

Zhaan

Thank you all for your input!