List of online avatars at top of forum (Page 1 of 2)

I tested and it doesn't work
Does anyone think they can get this working for me?
I ideally want a block of code that I can place wherever in the template > main.tpl file that I like so that a list of avatars showing who is online appears. It worked really really really well for my community. We all miss it very much

There might be a small bit of money if someone thinks they can code this for me

b-ump!
My users are still desparate for this one.
I've got a list of names at the top as you can see here:
http://www.eroyton.co.uk/forum/search.p … how_recent

But I really need a list of avatars, not names.
Any help appreciated. This was possible in 1.2 so I'm hoping it isn't too hard in 1.3

£10 to a charity of your choice if you can get this working for me

my users have been LOVING it for the past year on 1.2

Visit Gaia Online, to get ideas.

Yeah, the friends table.

It will have to be configurable, as to how many you want to see. On a busy forum, you couldn't fit everyone.

You can base it on activity, like the last 10 that have been active, it's constantly changing. Come to think of it, you may have to get a clearance from the epileptic community.

Hi Garciat,
Here is how we had it working in 1.2:

It works really well to strengthen the sense of community on a forum. It makes you feel like you're not just sat at a computer but you're amongst friends. The text list of online users doesn't have the same effect.

Your example looks brilliant, well done for figuring that out. However, for my purposes I'd want to have it so that there was no heading above the list and no text-alternative of the username. It should just be a list of avatars. As you can see above, it makes for an exciting and dynamic effect.

Cheers Garciat, I have a few members who are desparate for this so once it is working I'll be asking them to consider donating to you for your hard work. If you have PayPal I'm sure a few members would send you something (me included).

THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK SO FAR
I'm excited by this mod

Well, currently, the mod is not an extension, it's just a file that you can include in your main.tpl file.

If you want me to make it an extension, let me know (this could take a bit longer). I'll start working on the Gravatar extension right now.

1. Save this file to 'include/user/user_avatars.php'.

2. Add '<!-- forum_include "user_avatars.php" -->' after '<!-- forum_announcement -->' on your main.tpl.

That's it

Edit: There are some options you can change on 'user_avatars.php'.

See this in action here:
http://www.eroyton.co.uk/forum/

There are likely to be 6 or 7 people online at about 9pm British time.

So far, so good for me. It would be great if I had the option to remove the username from underneath. Another little true/false option would be great for that. Also, it would be good if the "clean" version would completely strip out all formating so that it looked like this:

Loving it so far.

@whatrevolution: It worked perfectly for me.

@esupergood: Re-download the file, I added an option to hide the names.

Mine did not, unfortunately.  Switching to curly brackets on 'if {}' solved it.  I added an outer container so I could id="" and control it in CSS.  I placed an image to the left, and right of that container.

StyleName_cs.css:

.brd #brd-user_avatars_left {
    background:
      url("/images/statue_facing_right.gif")
      top left no-repeat
      ;
    height: 133px;
    width: 89px;
    float: left;
    }

.brd #brd-user_avatars_right {
    background:
      url("/images/statue_facing_left.gif")
      top left no-repeat
      ;
    height: 133px;
    width: 89px;
    float: right;
    }

.brd #brd-user_avatars {
    margin-left: 100px;
    margin-right: 100px;
    }

main.tpl:

<div id="brd-main">
    <!-- forum_main_title -->
    <!-- forum_crumbs_top -->
    <!-- forum_main_menu -->
    <!-- forum_main_pagepost_top -->
    <!-- forum_main -->
    <!-- forum_main_pagepost_end -->
    <!-- forum_crumbs_end -->
  <div id="brd-user_avatars_left">&nbsp;</div>
  <div id="brd-user_avatars_right">&nbsp;</div>
  <!-- forum_include "user_avatars.php" -->
</div>

Edit:

PHP Version     5.2.0-8+etch13
System     Linux 2.6.24-19-xen #1 SMP Sat Jul 12 00:15:59 UTC 2008 x86_64
Build Date     Sep 30 2008 18:29:09
Server API     Apache 2.0 Handler