bymayo / craft-follow

Let users follow elements within Craft CMS. E.g. Users can follow other users, or follow categories to generate following lists

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Hi. I'm Jason, but most people call me Mayo, based in Manchester. I've been a self taught developer for around 15 years, but with a traditional graphic design background. Right now, I'm the Co-founder of MadeByShape, where I am the lead developer and work with global brands such as BBC, BlackBerry and 20th Century Fox right through to small-medium start ups.

On the side I'm a digital product developer working on my own ventures, as well as a Craft CMS Developer.

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craft-follow's Issues

Subscribe to entries/assets and get notifications on update

I have a client request to allow visitors to the site to subscribe to entries or documents (assets) and then get notified when those entries/documents are updated. Is this something that the follow plugin can do?

When will roadmap items be added?

I really love the functionality of this plugin and will probably buy it for a site I'm working on but there are a few items listed in the Roadmap that I'd like to have. I'm wondering if these items will ever make it into the plugin?

Update issue - had to revert back to 1.0.1

Hi @bymayo
Just updated to latest version and it started causing issues - little hard to explain on here (I know thats not helpful but just checking if you changed any of the core or just added a few bits in?
Reverting back to 1.0.1 solves my issue.

I'm using that new Sprig Plugin (reactive components) for Craft to display a list of people you follow in a modal on click.

The code for displaying this info remains the same regardless of Sprigs use.

But on the new version it breaks it and starts throwing errors. Other Follow areas where I have info seem to display fine.

Reverting back to 1.0.1 solves the issue and all is displayed.

Might be something I need to jump on and show you when you get a chance. But wanted to see if anything has been changed to the core workings of the plugin that I might not be aware of?

Thanks

use group of followers for an email list

Is there a way to use a list of followers for an email list? For a specific entry or category, I want to do something like "Follow to keep up to date..." Be nice if I could grab a follower list and use it with Campaign.

Can't follow Entries

I can't seem to get the plugin to follow entries and display the user's saved entries. I'm trying to make it so that the user can save entries, then display all the entries relating to their saved entry.

follow.php

<?php

return [
   '*' => [
      'allowedElementClasses' => [
         'craft\elements\Entry'
      ]
   ]
];

Follow Button

{% if craft.follow.check(entry.id) %}
  <a class="btn btn-sm btn-light py-2 px-3 mr-2" rel="nofollow" href="{{ craft.follow.unfollowUrl(entry.id) }}"><span class="material-icons mr-2 md-18">favorite_border</span>Unfollow Brand</a>
{% else %}
  <a class="btn btn-sm btn-light py-2 px-3 mr-2" rel="nofollow" href="{{ craft.follow.followUrl(entry.id) }}"><span class="material-icons mr-2 md-18">favorite_border</span>Follow Brand</a>
{% endif %}

Error

Argument 1 passed to bymayo\follow\services\ElementService::check() must be of the type array, int given, called in /home/ubuntu/sites/vt-nitro/vendor/bymayo/follow/src/variables/FollowVariable.php on line 33

Is this plugin still being developed & supported?

Hi just seeing if this plugin is still being developed and supported?

There hasn't been much activity on it nor updates.

Thanks
Tom

Getting number of followers not working properly

Hi Jason,
Running the below code returns the incorrect follower numbers for the current user.

The numbers outputted don't seem to represent an obvious pattern because two users with technically the same followers show different follower count, tried to see how the data is stored in the database and can't work out why I'm getting the numbers im getting.

• As you can see from the table the userId 1 is followed by two other users. But the number on the front end is outputted as 5.

• The userId 54 is also followed by 2 users but on the frontend it outputs 3 users?

• And the userId 2 is followed by one user but on the frontend it outputs 2 followers and not 1.

{% set myfollowers = craft.follow.followers() %}
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Total:</span>{{ myfollowers|length }}</p>

Thanks

Are there any events available for use?

Hello @bymayo , hope all is well. Was just looking at hooking into some events so I can create some notifications via https://plugins.craftcms.com/notifications but couldn't see anything documented regarding them?

I had a look through your code and can only see one reference to an EVENTS_INIT.

Was hoping to find something like an EVENT_AFTER_FOLLOW or something with a data object.

Thanks
Tom

Possible to follow an entry?

Hi,

found below sentences in the docs

You simply pass an element ID to it, whether this is a user, category or tag

I want to create like/bookmark functionality similar with instagram.
The use case might be :

• like/unlike an entry
• bookmark/unbookmark an entry

Does this plugin able to handle above use cases?

Just purchased this through Craft and no setting page

Just purchased this plugin through CraftCMS and despite copying config.php into my config folder as follow.php I have a blank settings page. Can anyone elaborate on the installation process and examples??

Deleted users/accounts are represented in total follow/followers count.

Hi mate,
It looks like deleted users are still represented in the count of Follower/Following totals.

Any way to resolve this on deletion of accounts?

Cheers

Notifications Update

Is there any update on Notifications being added?