XF 1.5 How To Show >10 Conversations in Inbox Dropdown?

[king8084]

It looks like it's hardcoded to limit the number of PMs found in the Inbox dropdown to only show a maximum of 10. I've been searching through some of the core documents ("Conversations.php"), but haven't been able to determine where this is housed and/or how to adjust. Any ideas?

 

[king8084]

@Chris D i've been poking around a bit more and it looks like you've made some comments loosely surrounding conversation counts in the past -- any chance i can grab your attention to hep solve this mystery? I'm searching for a way to increase the count from 10 in the popup, even if it means editing something core. Thanks in advance.

 

[king8084]

pinging @Mike as well, since i just found post from 2011 stating that you may have been the one to implement the 10 limit

 

[S Thomas]

The easiest way to track down something is the following flow:
Find out which template contains your variables
-> find out which controller pumps that in
-> find the correct action method
-> easy to track down from there

I don't have a 1.5 currently up here, so a bit hard to guess which template that is, do you know which one that is?

 

[king8084]

The easiest way to track down something is the following flow:
Find out which template contains your variables
-> find out which controller pumps that in
-> find the correct action method
-> easy to track down from there

I don't have a 1.5 currently up here, so a bit hard to guess which template that is, do you know which one that is?

we're looping on $conversationsRead in template 'conversation_list_popup', however, doing a helper dump of $conversationsRead at the top of that template shows that we're already working with a limited number of entries at that point ($conversationsRead count + $conversationsUnread count = 10 here).

template 'conversation_list_popup' isn't called from any other templates, nor are $conversationsRead or $conversationsUnread

...which is where my search runs dry. i'm still new to debugging to this degree, so apologies if i'm missing something.

 

[S Thomas]

Yea, you nailed down the template. And not being called in any other template makes it even easier. That was the first step.
-> The next step is to look for the controller. Controllers are in library/Xenforo/ControllerPublic.
Your guess above, Conversation.php, is just about right.
-> There's an actionPopup() method, in which you will find your template from above:

        return $this->responseView('XenForo_ViewPublic_Conversation_ListPopup', 'conversation_list_popup', $viewParams);

so you now have the method which is responsible for the data.
-> Track it down from here. Well, that's now pretty obvious because there's this line:

        $maxDisplay = 10;

So you should be able to work around that.

 

[king8084]

Yea, you nailed down the template. And not being called in any other template makes it even easier. That was the first step.
-> The next step is to look for the controller. Controllers are in library/Xenforo/ControllerPublic.
Your guess above, Conversation.php, is just about right.
-> There's an actionPopup() method, in which you will find your template from above:

        return $this->responseView('XenForo_ViewPublic_Conversation_ListPopup', 'conversation_list_popup', $viewParams);

so you now have the method which is responsible for the data.
-> Track it down from here. Well, that's now pretty obvious because there's this line:

        $maxDisplay = 10;

So you should be able to work around that.

oh, man... i was definitely looking at Model > Conversations.php instead of in ControllerPublic > Conversations.php

thanks so much for walking me through that, man. truly appreciate it. working flawlessly.