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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

Hovercards 1.3

25 Feb 2017 Edited
#1
Hovercards is a plugin which shows a delightful preview of your users when they hover on usernames around your board. You can customize Hovercards as you wish, fine-tuning what users data to show inside cards and their visual aspect as well.

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Minimum requirements


PHP 5.4
MyBB 1.8.0
PluginLibrary
664 chmod permissions on inc/functions.php

Main features


Hovercards is not a complicated plugin. As such, it does not come with many hardcoded options, but it does what it's supposed to do: display cards on hover.

Extensibility


You decide what data to include in a card: once a data point becomes available, you can reference it in Hovercards' unique template, which is then packed and built upon every single hover on an username. Hovercards adds 1 stylesheet you can play around with to customize the visual aspect of the card. A minimal style is included by default.

You can also use JavaScript conditionals to adapt each data point's display. For example, you might want to display a different label when an user hasn't posted yet. You can use the buildTemplateCallback(html, user) function to manipulate the template accounting for each user's values every time it is displayed. The base example is included in the hovercards_script template.

Adaptive colors


Every card can hold an unique background color which is chosen upon the dominant one from the user's avatar. Text color is adjusted to be readable accounting for the background contrast. This is available as an option. Adaptive colors uses a nasty technique which absolutely demands the image data; cross-site scripting blocks is circumvented by using Google's public image proxy, which helps gathering the image data.

All-in-one query


Hovercards queries the database just the first time you hover on a username, gathering all the users available in the page with one query. This adds an extra layer of trust when it comes to properly assign an user's data to the respective target on screen, and it also saves resources by avoiding too many queries over time.

Installation


Upload the files maintaining the same folder structure as they come in the package and click the button Install & activate within your board's plugin list.

Settings


Hovercards adds 4 settings.

Adaptive colors has already been explained above. If you disable it, you can manually choose and add a default background color for all cards in HEX format.

Fields to use lets you select the available data points. The more data points you will select, the more intense and slow the query will be (although you shouldn't notice the difference most of the times). A FIELD is then available within Hovercards' template with the following, simple syntax: {FIELD}. For example, if you activate the field "username", you will be able to use {username} into Hovercards' template and it will be replaced with the user's formatted username when watching his card.

Card positioning lets you decide the orientation of cards relative to their attached object out of 9 possible vertical/horizontal placements. The default orientation is "bottom left".

Templates and stylesheets


Hovercards adds a CSS file named hovercards.css to every theme of your board. You can customize the card's appearance by editing the stylesheet's CSS rules. It also adds 2 templates which you can customize to change both the appearance and data points to show in a single card, as explained above.

Reporting issues


If you encounter an issue, feel free to open a new thread in this forum with detailed instructions on how to reproduce your issue. Suggestions and feature requests are appreciated as well.

Availability


Hovercards is available for free. WARNING SIGN Support is discontinued due to my departure from programming. Read more why here.


This project is licensed under

MIT


A simple license with little to no use restrictions, except for author's crediting. Read the provided LICENSE file for more informations.

Permissions

Commercial use
Modification
Distribution
Private use
Limitations

Warranty
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Eldenroot, Hefty, metonator And 13 others like this post
Tac 26 Feb 2017
#2
YES! :D Finally
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kopa 26 Feb 2017
#3
Awesome plugin!
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Dr.Jeet 27 Feb 2017
#4
Thanks for this great plugin.
Hefty and Shade like this post
Stay Frosty 2 Mar 2017
#5
Thank for releasing more and more amazing plugins, keep it up!
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Sharree 20 Mar 2017 Edited
#6
Shade I'm trying to use if conditionals plugin from ZIngaBurga in the hovercard template.

Something like
<if fid7 then>Content for fid7<else>something here if no fid7</if>
Not working though, is there a different variable I should be using?
Shade 21 Mar 2017
#7
Thank you for supporting me @"Clark Richard" by buying a lifetime premium subscription. I am not at home at the moment but I will look into your issue as soon as possibile. It's likely conditionals won't work in beta 1, but they will in beta 2.
Sharree 21 Mar 2017 Edited
#8
No problem, you deserve it. Any news on a fix to this, or will it be considered in the next beta?
Shade 21 Mar 2017
#9
It's likely you will need to wait till beta 2.
Sharree 21 Mar 2017 Edited
#10
It's likely you will need to wait till beta 2.
Shade (21 Mar 2017)
No worries. Figured an alternative by display:none the content if the fid is blank through CSS.
<style>
#showfid A[href=""], A[href="null"] {
  display: none;
}
</style>
Still would be nice in the next release to have template conditionals working for more customization abilities.

Thanks again for the plugin Shade, my staff team and users love it.