Topic Author
This mod is simple - it adds small icon next to name of user who started topic. Useful in topics with several pages - you always know who started viewed topic.
Currently there are two icons available, star and 'comment cloud', both are taken from Font Awesome which is included in ElkArte by default.
I hope that it does not cause any styling issues ::)
Big thanks for
@emanuele for helping with resolving some problems with this mod :)
Download: Addon installation file can be downloaded from attachment.
Compatibility: ElkArte 1.0.1 and newer.
License: MPL 1.1, http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/1.1/
Cool! :D
Yep! I use this one with my SMF at the moment. I will use it with Elk also. :)
Good one.
Installed it, made a german language file, but can't find the settings in admin panel to activate it. :-[
Edit: Oh-oh! It seems my installation has some problems. TopicAuthor.subs.php isn't on my server after installation. The package manager said the addon was installed sucessfully. The english language file was copied. Strange! :o
O_o
/me finds this kind of results irritating. lol
In certain kind of configurations it seems the package manager is not able to detect that the file is not "really" writable...
Wow, it's a really nice and "good looking" idea to mark the topic author! Great job.
It would be nice if this addon would be adjusted to the version 1.1.x. :)
Yep, the icon is not there anymore. :(
Attached is a version that should work on 1.1 ... 1.1 uses SVG for the icons and no star was included in the release, so instead I used the bell icon, maybe the pencil would be better?
If you want the star the easiest thing to do is install the original addon (not the one attached to this post) and in your index.template, change 'require_font-awesome' => false, to be 'require_font-awesome' => true, and it should then "just work"
I've now installed your 1.1 version. The bell looks pretty good, but is a bit too pale for me. Which icons are there except a pencil? Is there a page where I can see all the icons?
Open the file sources/subs/TopicAuthor.subs
find the line
$icon = $icon === 'comment' ? 'comment-blank' : 'bell-blank';
change it to be
$icon = $icon === 'comment' ? 'comment-blank' : 'bell';
thats a solid vs outline bell ... if you want to try the pencil replace bell with pencil.
There is no listing of the svg icons TBD,
I tried out the solid bell and the pencil - and decided to stay at the blank bell. :)