My Friends Widget Edit myfriends.php

[dvsDave]

The My Friends widget is pretty awesome. Once configured, it can show you your friends recent activity on Posts, Threads, blogs, etc.

However, I was wondering if the widget could be expanded to include your contacts as well as friends. There are people I would like to follow but don't neccessarily want to be a full "friend" with.

Any ideas on how I might edit myfriends.php to accomplish this?

[alfanexus]

Great idea. Then contacts could be used as followers

[dvsDave]

yup! That is what my users want! Anybody have any ideas how to accomplish this?

I think this is the section of the code that needs editing, but I might be wrong:
/**
* This sets up the search parameters, gets the query results,
* and renders them
*
* @param array $config
* @return string
*/
private function getResults($config)
{
include_once DIR . '/includes/functions_misc.php';
$search_core = vB_Search_Core::get_instance();

//first see if we can get cached results
$hashkey = $this->getHash();
$cache_data = vB_Cache::instance()->read($hashkey, false, false);
if ($cache_data)
{

//If there are no id's, we're done.
if (empty($cache_data['ids']))
{
return false;
}

$controller = vB_Search_Core::get_instance()->get_search_type_from_id($config['contenttypeid']);

if (method_exists($controller, 'create_array'))
{
$results = $controller->create_array($cache_data['ids']);
}
else if(method_exists($controller, 'create_item'))
{
$results = array();
foreach ($cache_data['ids'] as $resultid)
{
$result = $controller->create_item($resultid);
if ($result)
{
$results[] = $result;
}
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
return array('results' => $results, 'criteria' => $cache_data['criteria']);
}

$rst = vB::$vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT relationid FROM "
. TABLE_PREFIX . "userlist WHERE friend='yes' AND userid = "
. vB::$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']
);

if (!$rst)
{
return false;
}
$userids = array();

while($row = vB::$vbulletin->db->fetch_row($rst))
{
$userids[] = $row[0];
}

//If there are no friends there's no friend information.
if (! count($userids))
{
return '';
}

if ($config['contenttypeid'] == null)
{
$config['contenttypeid']= array();
}
else if (!is_array($config['contenttypeid']))
{
$config['contenttypeid'] = array($config['contenttypeid']);
}

if (!count($userids))
{
new vB_Phrase('global', 'your_friends_list_is_empty');
}

$criteria = vB_Search_Core::get_instance()->create_criteria(vB_Search_Core::SEARCH_ADVANCED);
$criteria->add_contenttype_filter($config['contenttypeid']);
$criteria->set_advanced_typeid($contenttypeid);

$criteria->add_userid_filter($userids, false);
$criteria->set_grouped(vB_Search_Core::GROUP_NO);
$timelimit = TIMENOW - (86400 * $config['days']);
$criteria->add_date_filter(vB_Search_Core::OP_GT, $timelimit);
$criteria->set_sort('dateline', 'desc');
$current_user = new vB_Legacy_CurrentUser();
$results = vB_Search_Results::create_from_cache($current_user , $criteria);

if (!$results)
{
$results = vB_Search_Results::create_from_criteria($current_u ser, $criteria);
}

if (empty($results))
{
return false;
}

$page_results = $results->get_page(1, $config['count'], 1);
//prepare types for render
$items_by_type = array();
foreach ($page_results as $item)
{
$typeid = $item->get_contenttype();

if ($typeid)
{
$items_by_type[$typeid][] = $item;
$ids[] = $item->get_id();
}
}

foreach ($items_by_type as $contenttype => $items)
{
$type = vB_Search_Core::get_instance()->get_search_type_from_id($contenttype);
$type->prepare_render($results->get_user(), $items);

}

vB_Cache::instance()->write($hashkey, array('ids' => $ids,
'criteria' =>$criteria), $this->cache_ttl,
'widget_config_' . $this->widget->getId());

return array('results' => $page_results, 'criteria' => $criteria);
}

[alfanexus]

Just change

. TABLE_PREFIX . "userlist WHERE friend='yes' AND userid = "

to

. TABLE_PREFIX . "userlist WHERE type='buddy' AND userid = "

Then the widget also displays contacts :)

[dvsDave]

Awesome! Thanks much!