A new widget was developed for XenWord 3.3.3 which shows the comments of a WordPress post sorted by the number of likes. I couldn't figure out a way to do this with a model, therefore, a replies queries was created and used to fetch all of the values. These replies were sent through a simple foreach loop.
PHP:
/** @var $thread_qry XenWord_Comment_Ranking */
$replies_qry = "
SELECT thread_id, post_id, user_id, message_state, likes, message, position FROM `xf_post`
WHERE message_state = 'visible' AND thread_id = $threadId
ORDER BY `likes` DESC
LIMIT $number_of_posts
";
$replies = XenForo_Application::get( 'db' )->fetchAll( $replies_qry );As the widget was being developed, I came across an interesting question. What if the widget was trying to load on a page or the frontpage of the site? What if the post didn't have a thread associated with it?
This initially returned an error and so I put in a conditional for testing these conditions. The conditional blocked the loading. Great !
Next, I realized the widget could be blocked under other conditions, too. For example, a staff online widget should not show if a staff member is not online.
Here is a video showing the work.
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