User Icons on Discussions page?

mis-one · October 2007

Has anyone come up with a solution to display a User's icon on the All Discussions page under the topic they created?

jimw · October 2007

If you are using the DiscussionsExcerpt, add the following after:

      if (!@$UserManager) $UserManager = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, "UserManager");
      $DiscussionUser = $UserManager->GetUserById($Discussion->AuthUserID);
      if ($DiscussionUser->Icon)
      {
          $DispIcon = '<img src="'.$DiscussionUser->Icon.'" style="border:none" alt="" />';
      } else {
          $DispIcon = " ";
      }

after

      $rows = $Context->Database->GetRow($result);

Then you'll have to replace the $DiscussionList line with in the IF:

          $DiscussionList = str_replace($Discussion->Name.'</a>', $DispIcon.' '.$Discussion->Name .'</a> <li id="DiscussionExcerpt" style="overflow:hidden">'.$PageList.' ...</li>', $DiscussionList);

and in the ELSE, replace with:

          $DiscussionList = str_replace($Discussion->Name.'</a>', $DispIcon.' '.$Discussion->Name .'</a> <li class="DiscussionExcerpt">'.$PageList.' ...</li><br/><br/><br/>', $DiscussionList);

If this is too complicated, I'll just make a new version of the add-on with this as an option.

mis-one · October 2007

Currently using/loving Discussion Excerpt. Thanks a lot!

circuit · May 2008

apologies for bumping this up, but i was wondering if this is still the best solution...?

circuit · June 2008

actually, i tried it and it didn't do what i wanted.

i want the user icon to be displayed immediately to the left of all the other info and in line with it, as though it was in a column on its own. how hard would this be?

User Icons on Discussions page?

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