pirgoif / itop-gravatar

Adds gravatar support in iTop

Gravatar support for iTop

👤 Description

This extension adds Gravatar support for iTop : when installed, it changes the Person.picture attribute HTML rendering. If no picture are already loaded, then a Gravatar call using the Person.email value as email is done.

This means that for every Person object with no picture defined and having an email, the image will be loaded from Gravatar service. This will change rendering in all iTop screens like lists, form details, extended portal.

✔️ Requirements

iTop version 2.3.0 (enhanced portal support).

💣 Known problems

• There should not be any other overrides of the \Person::Get method !
• The default image won't be displayed if used from a private server (not visible from the Gravatar service).

🔧 How it works

In an ideal world, just adding a new specific attribute type, and overriding the datamodel class attribute type with XML would be enough. .. But it's not as simple as that 😱 ! Actually lots of the code around attributes is hard coded in iTop, for example in the \MFCompiler::CompileClass...

The extensions adds :

• a new ormGravatarImage object
• overrides Person::Get method
• overrides 'p_object_document_display' enhanced portal route

So for the specific Person.picture attribute, a new value object is returned, implementing a custom URL generation code.

The Gravatar URL generation is done using Ember Labs GravatarLib, thanks to them for this wonderful library 👍 !

itop-gravatar's Issues

Crash on installation

Hello @piRGoif

When trying to install the extension on a hosted webserver I get the following error every single time:

Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected 'version' (T_STRING) in /XXX/env-production/itop-gravatar/datamodel.itop-gravatar.xml on line 1
PHP error occured : msg=syntax error, unexpected 'version' (T_STRING), no=4, file=/XXX/env-production/itop-gravatar/datamodel.itop-gravatar.xml, line=1

When deploying on my local iTop instance, everything goes fine, but when deploying on the prodcution server it happens every time. If I remove the extension, the setup run smoothly.

Running PHP7.2 on Apache on both servers.
Any dea?

Guillaume