[Liam W] (RIP) Mentions Mini Avatars 2.0.0 Patch Level 1

[Liam W]

Liam W submitted a new resource:

Mentions Mini Avatars - Show user avatars with mentions

This install-and-done add-on will add user avatars to the left of any mentions of them.

This add-on uses the XF2 'embed metadata' system to store the mentioned users with each message. This means that for any message created after this add-on is installed, there will only be one additional query per thread for the user avatars.

For messages created before this add-on is installed, there is an option to control what you wish to happen. This provides three alternatives:

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[easiii]

Hey @Liam W,
Thank you for this add-on. I've requested something like this before: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/improve-the-username-look-xenforo-2.157570/

Your add-on is great but it can be improved:

1. We want to be able to remove the @ sign.
2. 0 queries - @Jeremy P did it for it's https://xenforo.com/community/resources/mini-avatar-with-tag.3738/ addon so it should be possible.
3. Will this work for all the Xenforo parts, even on Profile posts and Conversations?
4. Styling should be controlled via style properties

 

[Liam W]

I am planning on making improvements, this is an initial beta.

We want to be able to remove the @ sign.

This add-on respects the existing option. Adding an additional option would almost certain confuse things.

0 queries - @Jeremy P did it for it's https://xenforo.com/community/resources/mini-avatar-with-tag.3738/ addon so it should be possible.

I'm not sure how that works, but if it is zero additional queries, then it's probably caching the avatar data somewhere. That would lead to outdated avatars - I will take a look though.

Will this work for all the Xenforo parts, even on Profile posts and Conversations?

Yes, but until beta 2 only if 'Always' is selected in the options.

Styling should be controlled via style properties

Planned.

 

[Liam W]

@easiii I've taken a look at that add-on, and it doesn't support Gravatar's and also breaks the avatar image cache busting for browser caching. I could add an option to do something similar in this add-on, but I'm currently mostly against it.

 

[easiii]

@easiii I've taken a look at that add-on, and it doesn't support Gravatar's. I could add an option to do something similar in this add-on - only support uploaded image avatars, and fallback onto the default avatar for Gravatar's, if that would interest you.

I've disabled Gravatar's on my board so it would be a great option to have 0 queries. : D

This add-on respects the existing option. Adding an additional option would almost certain confuse things.

It could be something in the add-on option:


Have an avatar then @, then username isn't very good looking...

Yes, but until beta 2 only if 'Always' is selected in the options.

I'm using the latest stable Xenforo 2.0.12 so it should work right?

Thank you for taking your time for this! I really appreciate it!

 

[Liam W]

I'm using the latest stable Xenforo 2.0.12 so it should work right?

Thank you for taking your time for this! I really appreciate it!

That was referring to beta 2 of this add-on, I.E the next update.

 

[easiii]

@easiii I've taken a look at that add-on, and it doesn't support Gravatar's and also breaks the avatar image cache busting for browser caching. I could add an option to do something similar in this add-on, but I'm currently mostly against it.

Oh ok, if you think it's not a good idea then it's fine. Just to be clear, this add-on will add 1 query no matter how many mentions are on a page. So if on a page there will be mentioned 30 users, there will be still 1 query right?

 

[Liam W]

Oh ok, if you think it's not a good idea then it's fine. Just to be clear, this add-on will add 1 query no matter how many mentions are on a page. So if on a page there will be mentioned 30 users, there will be still 1 query right?

Yes, that's the default. It should be noted that (by default) only mentions in messages created or edited after this add-on is installed will have avatars, unless that mentioned user has been loaded from the database in that request (which, depending on how mentions are used on your board, may be all of them).

 

[easiii]

Yes, that's the default. It should be noted that (by default) only mentions in messages created or edited after this add-on is installed will have avatars, unless that mentioned user has been loaded from the database in that request (which, depending on how mentions are used on your board, may be all of them).

Sounds good. I'll give this add-on a test on my test board and let you know what happens! Thank you!

 

[tajhay]

Thank you for creating this @Liam W. Appreciated!

 

[Liam W]

Liam W updated Mentions Mini Avatars with a new update entry:

1.0.0 Beta 2

• Add option to remove the '@' character from mentions
• Add various style properties
• Extend caching to many more content types

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Matt C.]

I would be possible to make a rebuild function that goes through all messages to rebuild tags to include avatars?

 

[easiii]

Hey @Liam W,
Thanks for the update!

We have a problem when we mention a user in the Profile posts widget or page. Basically it does not do show the avatar, and shows in the ACP the below errors (we got like 12 pages) :

• Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XFrofilePostComment
• Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XFrofilePost

InvalidArgumentException: Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XF:ProfilePost[35783]
src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php:182
Generated by
Dec 14, 2018
Stack trace

#0 src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php(95): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->get('embed_metadata')
#1 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/Repository/Mentions.php(19): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->__get('embed_metadata')
#2 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/Pub/Controller/MentionMiniAvatarTrait.php(14): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\Repository\Mentions->addMentionsToContent(Object(XF\Mvc\Entity\ArrayCollection))
#3 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/XF/Pub/Controller/Member.php(14): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Pub\Controller\Member->addMentionsToContent(Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\View), 'profilePosts')
#4 src/addons/KL/UserImprovements/Pub/Controller/Member.php(25): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#5 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(249): KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#6 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(88): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchClass('XF\\Pub\\Controll...', 'View', 'html', Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag), 'members', Object(KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member), Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\Reroute))
#7 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(41): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchLoop(Object(XF\Mvc\RouteMatch))
#8 src/XF/App.php(1934): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run()
#9 src/XF.php(333): XF\App->run()
#10 index.php(13): XF::runApp('XF\\Pub\\App')
#11 {main}

InvalidArgumentException: Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XF:ProfilePostComment[63014] src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php:182
Generated by:
Stack trace
#0 src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php(95): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->get('embed_metadata')
#1 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/Repository/Mentions.php(19): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->__get('embed_metadata')
#2 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/XF/Entity/ProfilePost.php(29): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\Repository\Mentions->addMentionsToContent(Array)
#3 src/XF/Repository/ProfilePost.php(145): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Entity\ProfilePost->setLatestComments(Array)
#4 src/XF/Pub/Controller/Member.php(231): XF\Repository\ProfilePost->addCommentsToProfilePosts(Object(XF\Mvc\Entity\ArrayCollection))
#5 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/XF/Pub/Controller/Member.php(14): XF\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#6 src/addons/KL/UserImprovements/Pub/Controller/Member.php(25): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#7 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(249): KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#8 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(88): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchClass('XF\\Pub\\Controll...', 'View', 'html', Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag), 'members', Object(KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member), Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\Reroute))
#9 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(41): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchLoop(Object(XF\Mvc\RouteMatch))
#10 src/XF/App.php(1934): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run()
#11 src/XF.php(333): XF\App->run()
#12 index.php(13): XF::runApp('XF\\Pub\\App')
#13 {main}

 

[Liam W]

Ah, bottoms. Profile posts and comments only had the embed metadata stuff added in 2.1... I was sorta hoping that it would work without issue in 2.0.

Another version will be coming to tonight, fixing that (I'm just about to leave for Uni).

I would be possible to make a rebuild function that goes through all messages to rebuild tags to include avatars?

Yes, technically. Though that would be exceptionally resource intensive.

Liam

 

[Matt C.]

Ah, bottoms. Profile posts and comments only had the embed metadata stuff added in 2.1... I was sorta hoping that it would work without issue in 2.0.

Another version will be coming to tonight, fixing that (I'm just about to leave for Uni).



Yes, technically. Though that would be exceptionally resource intensive.

Liam

Well doing it through CLI would be better.

 

[Xon]

Yes, technically. Though that would be exceptionally resource intensive.

I implemented something like that for User Essentials (which works with more content types even if they don't have embed metadata), and yeah it is horribly painful as you need to re-parse everything and also disable url/media auto-linking or it massively slows everything down.

 

[Mian Shahid]

Hey @Liam W,
Thanks for the update!

We have a problem when we mention a user in the Profile posts widget or page. Basically it does not do show the avatar, and shows in the ACP the below errors (we got like 12 pages) :

• Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XFrofilePostComment
• Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XFrofilePost

InvalidArgumentException: Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XF:ProfilePost[35783]
src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php:182
Generated by
Dec 14, 2018
Stack trace

#0 src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php(95): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->get('embed_metadata')
#1 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/Repository/Mentions.php(19): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->__get('embed_metadata')
#2 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/Pub/Controller/MentionMiniAvatarTrait.php(14): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\Repository\Mentions->addMentionsToContent(Object(XF\Mvc\Entity\ArrayCollection))
#3 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/XF/Pub/Controller/Member.php(14): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Pub\Controller\Member->addMentionsToContent(Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\View), 'profilePosts')
#4 src/addons/KL/UserImprovements/Pub/Controller/Member.php(25): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#5 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(249): KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#6 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(88): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchClass('XF\\Pub\\Controll...', 'View', 'html', Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag), 'members', Object(KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member), Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\Reroute))
#7 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(41): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchLoop(Object(XF\Mvc\RouteMatch))
#8 src/XF/App.php(1934): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run()
#9 src/XF.php(333): XF\App->run()
#10 index.php(13): XF::runApp('XF\\Pub\\App')
#11 {main}

InvalidArgumentException: Accessed unknown getter 'embed_metadata' on XF:ProfilePostComment[63014] src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php:182
Generated by:
Stack trace
#0 src/XF/Mvc/Entity/Entity.php(95): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->get('embed_metadata')
#1 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/Repository/Mentions.php(19): XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity->__get('embed_metadata')
#2 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/XF/Entity/ProfilePost.php(29): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\Repository\Mentions->addMentionsToContent(Array)
#3 src/XF/Repository/ProfilePost.php(145): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Entity\ProfilePost->setLatestComments(Array)
#4 src/XF/Pub/Controller/Member.php(231): XF\Repository\ProfilePost->addCommentsToProfilePosts(Object(XF\Mvc\Entity\ArrayCollection))
#5 src/addons/LiamW/MentionMiniAvatar/XF/Pub/Controller/Member.php(14): XF\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#6 src/addons/KL/UserImprovements/Pub/Controller/Member.php(25): LiamW\MentionMiniAvatar\XF\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#7 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(249): KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member->actionView(Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag))
#8 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(88): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchClass('XF\\Pub\\Controll...', 'View', 'html', Object(XF\Mvc\ParameterBag), 'members', Object(KL\UserImprovements\Pub\Controller\Member), Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\Reroute))
#9 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(41): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->dispatchLoop(Object(XF\Mvc\RouteMatch))
#10 src/XF/App.php(1934): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run()
#11 src/XF.php(333): XF\App->run()
#12 index.php(13): XF::runApp('XF\\Pub\\App')
#13 {main}

Any possible solution for this error, this was accrued after upgrade so, can we downgrade this add-on one step?

 

[upnet]

We would love to have this feature with 2.1. From what I gather this works different than mini avatar with tags. It will not apply to tags previous to the addon install? We have 4mil posts...Is anyone using this on 2.1 that we can checkout?

I see there was a planned update to this 6 weeks ago. Is it being maintained?

 

[deslocotoco]

Waiting confirmation to be fully compatible with 2.1.

I don't like to use beta version on my live forum. Creeps me out.

 

[devserg]

Liam

Update please XF 2.1