Community ticker

Community Ticker Plugin

Plugin displays the last activities within the community, these activities can be new comments, new community member registration, new blog entry and user topic follow entry in frontend.

Features:

Community feed displays the last activities within:

users registration,
new blog entries,
recommended comments,
user topic follow entry.

Note: If you want to show posted comments in community ticker on fronted you need to first mark a given comment as "Recommended" in Admin Panel (Content -> Comments). It's some sort of reviewing a comment which user posted before making it public for others on fronted.

List of available events for templators:

```
comment-recommended - recommended comment entry
```
- id string - comment id
- subject string - comment subject
- article string - article name
- commenter string - commenter name
user-register - new user registration
- user Newscoop\Entity\User - registered user object
topic-follow - user follow topic new entry
- topic_name - topic name
- topic_id - topic id
- user Newscoop\Entity\User - registered user object
blog-published - new blog entry
- number - article number
- language - language id

Available list constraints:

id - entry id
event - event name (e.g. user.register)
created - default order set to date created - ascending (e.g. order="created desc")

Extra parameter:

length - determines max entries to display

Smarty block

list_community_feeds block

{{ list_community_feeds }}                    
 
{{ /list_community_feeds }}                                 

Example block to display 6 latest community entries (new user registration and new comments entries):

list_community_feeds block example

{{* This will generate list of latest activity of community members *}}     
{{ list_community_feeds length="5" }}
{{ if $gimme->current_list->at_beginning }}
<div class="community_ticker" class="clearfix">
    <h3>{{ #communityFeed# }}</h3>
        <ul>
{{ /if }}
        {{ $created=$gimme->community_feed->created }}
        {{ $user=$gimme->community_feed->user }}
        {{ if $gimme->community_feed->type == 'user-register' && $user->uname }}
        <li class="registered">{{ include file="_tpl/relative_date.tpl" date=$created }} <a{{ if $user->is_active }} href="{{ $view->url(['username' => $user->uname], 'user') }}"{{ /if }}>{{ $user->first_name }} {{ $user->last_name }}</a> {{ #registered# }}</li>
        {{ elseif $gimme->community_feed->type == 'comment-recommended' && $gimme->community_feed->comment->article }}
        <li class="commented">{{ include file="_tpl/relative_date.tpl" date=$created }} {{ #newCommentOn# }} <a href="{{ $gimme->community_feed->comment->article->url }}">{{ $gimme->community_feed->comment->article->title }}</a></li>
        {{ elseif $gimme->community_feed->type == 'topic-follow' && $gimme->community_feed->topic }}
        <li class="commented">{{ include file="_tpl/relative_date.tpl" date=$created }} <a{{ if $user->is_active }} href="{{ $view->url(['username' => $user->uname], 'user') }}"{{ /if }}>{{ $user->first_name }} {{ $user->last_name }}</a> followed <a href="{{ $gimme->community_feed->topic->articlesLink }}">{{ $gimme->community_feed->topic->name }}</a> topic</li>
        {{ /if }}
{{ if $gimme->current_list->at_end }}
        </ul>
</div>        
{{ /if }}
{{ /list_community_feeds }}

Migrating community events from core table to plugin table

In Newscoop there is already table called "community_ticker_event" which keeps all community events informations (new user register, comment recommend etc.). After installing plugin those events won't be visible for plugin. To make them visibe in plugin, migrate all existing data to plugin table using console command:

sudo php application/console ticker:migrate

It will migrate all events to plugin table and will remove old table.

TagesWoche Newscoop 4.4 Implementation

Community ticker