Forum Widgets

Flarum Core Extension for Managing Forum Widgets.

Installation

Remember that this is just a forum widgets editor, it doesn't actually come with any widgets.

Install with composer:

composer require afrux/forum-widgets-core:"*"

Here is a list of currently compatible widgets you can install:

• Online Users
• Forum Stats
• Top Posters
• News Fader

Updating

composer update afrux/forum-widgets-core:"*"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Extend

Extension developers wanting to create widgets with this small framework, the following explains how you can register a new widget, for now you should only register one widget per extension.

1. Require this extension in your extension's composer.json:

"require": {
  "flarum/core": "^1.0.0",
  "afrux/forum-widgets-core": "^0.1.0"
},

2. Create your widget's component in common/components by extending the base Widget component provided with this package.

import Widget from 'flarum/extensions/afrux-forum-widgets-core/common/components/Widget';

export default class MyWidget extends Widget {
  className() {
    // Custom class name.
    // You can also use the class "AfruxWidgets-Widget--flat" for a flat widget (not contained in a block).
    // Please avoid strong custom styling so that it looks consistent in other themes.
    return 'MyWidget';
  }

  icon() {
    // Widget icon.
    return 'fas fa-cirlce';
  }

  title() {
    // Widget title.
    // Can return empty for a titleless widget.
    return app.translator.trans('afrux-online-users-widget.forum.widget.title');
  }

  content() {
    return (
      <div className="Afrux-OnlineUsersWidget-users">
        // ...
      </div>
    );
  }
}

3. Register your widget in the admin and forum frontends:

• Create a new registerWidget.js file in common:

import Widgets from 'flarum/extensions/afrux-forum-widgets-core/common/extend/Widgets';

import MyWidget from './components/MyWidget';

export default function(app) {
  (new Widgets).add({
    key: 'onlineUsers',
    component: MyWidget,
    
    // Can be a callback that returns a boolean value.
    // example: () => app.forum.attribute('myCustomExtension.mySetting')
    isDisabled: false,
    
    // Is this a one time use widget ? leave true if you don't know.
    isUnique: true,
    
    // The following values are default values that can be changed by the admin.
    placement: 'end',
    position: 1,
  }).extend(app, 'my-extension-id');
};

• Register the widget in both frontends admin/index.js & forum/index.js:

import registerWidget from '../common/registerWidget';

app.initializers.add('my-extension-id', () => {
  registerWidget(app);
});

4. If you are using typescript, you can add the typings of this package by adding this to the paths key in your tsconfig.json file:

"flarum/extensions/afrux-forum-widgets-core/*": ["../vendor/afrux/forum-widgets-core/js/dist-typings/*"]

You can also checkout other example widgets in the Afrux github org.

Links

• Packagist
• GitHub
• Discuss