You could make this like Hi5.com, they have an interesting system of friendships:

(1) Friends are just the friends they are now.
(2) unconfirmed friends are buddys you have on the list but the other don't.
(3) people asking for friendships are users who have you on the buddy list but you do not have them on the list.

The group (3) should not be shown to other users than the user to whom the user asking for friendhip adresses.

Sounds good.

OT: Schreib mir das nochmal in Deutsch ^^, damit ich genau verstehe was du willst. Im Moment hab ich zwar keine Zeit, aber ich setz mich baaaald an eine neue Version mit Phrasen und Templates :) und den Optionen im ACP statt im Quellcode.

Gerne :)

(1) Die Kategorie "Freunde" bleibt so wie jetzt
(2) "Unbest?tigte Freunde" sind die Buddys, die man selbst auf der Liste hat, aber der andere hat einen selbst nicht auf der Liste. Diese werden aber auch mit Bild angezeigt. (-> Realisierung: "Unbest?tigte Freunde" = eigene Buddyliste - "Freunde")
(3) "Anfragende Leute" sind Benutzer, die einen auf der Buddy Liste haben, die man selbst aber nicht auf der Liste hat. (-> Realisierung: fremde Buddyliste - eigene Buddyliste)

Die Gruppe (3) sollte nur dem Benutzer (und evtl. auch Moderatoren) angezeigt werden, der diese "anfragenden Leute" akzeptieren kann. (-> einfaches conditional)

Es bleibt eigentlich fast alles beim Alten, nur dass eben keine Person mehrfach angezeigt wird. Wenn z.B. A und B sich gegenseitig auf der Buddyliste haben, dann wird B 1. als Freund, 2. auf der eigenen Buddyliste, 3. auf den fremden Buddylisten angezeigt. Nach der "neuen" Methode wird B nur noch als "Freund" angezeigt.

Ok, understood ^^. This was quite an easy change, so I added the option to the setup and the 5 lines of code to handle it. See the updatet plugin :) - just overwrite the old one with the plugin manager.

How do I stop it from resizing the avatar pic in the friends list?

Nevermind, I got it. However, I cant figure out the option combination to show all friends with avatars. I can only get Buddies with avatars. Anyone?

will this be installed in the release?

thanks nice hack

how do i set avatars not saved on file system???

Hi, i found out, that this is only possible for avatars but not for profilepics. I will add the feature for avatars soon.


I've finished the next version of the plugin. Now it's a product and available in german and english. Hope you don't mind my english ^^

Uninstall the plugin before you install the product! The template edit stays the same. See 1st post for more info.

I hope I did all right :) Tell me how the product install worked.

if the plugin is working fine. what's the benifits of uninstalling and installing the product.

If you ever want to change some setup settings, you can do that in the acp now, or if you run a multilingual forum, you can set up the translations for it with the vb phrase system. If you don't need this, then you can move on with the plugin.

ah thats cool, but for now I guess it's now really worth it as there isn't any new features :(

I don't understand why it wouldn't work with profile pics if it works with avatars though...

anyways, good luck with them, hope it all works out! :)

Because the profilepics are called with a php script which returns the pic or a transparent gif with 1x1 pixels. I have found no way to determine if a profilepic is present or not because of that. The avatar location is stored in the database. That's why it will work with avatars.

can you get it to check the size of the image? and make it so that if the profile pic is too small its ignored or replaced with a "no user profile pic" or whatever.

oh ok, thanks jj

I can't figure out how to change the colors of links in it, without changing the style of the site. color somes up white and turn yellow on hover. how can I customize it?

I switched to the product and it works great, but how do I change the settings now?

so is it customary to ignore ppl asking questions?? wtf

thanks for the response
i understand now

do u know how to get users usernames to replace the member id number in the url to their profile

As I explained somewhere above, NO.

Of course the links are using the same colors like the rest of the vBulletin. If you want to get other colors, you should know some html and edit the plugin code. I didn't figure the template system out yet, but I'll definately use templates soon.

Go to your ACP. I wrote it in the 1st post!!! It's a new entry in the vBulletin settings part called "Friends and/or Buddies in Profle".

You can do that in your ACP and of course look into vBulletins Manual/FAQ.

you don't even use this plugin... why should i answer you ^^

Yes I know :) You want me to add that as an option?

Good work once again on making this a product. Even though I've had mine all set up for a while I upgraded and it's nice to have the options in the ACP. :)

I installed this and all it is showing is the + signs and not the buddy list like on myspace.

You did something wrong then. Do you have a link or a screenshot?

<a href="http://www.gsnforce.com/forum/member.php?u=1" target="_blank">http://www.gsnforce.com/forum/member.php?u=1</a>

Also here is the code of my memberinfo....

Did you went to ACP and set it up?

Yea I fixed it. Some of the option descriptions are misleading.

Any plan to add paging?

As the friend list may go super long :squareeyed:

is the requested feature for gamebgs (now me) working?

its better to use
instant of
that will show the $FNB_HTML by defult..

Haven't tested it, but it should show only those with avatars, if you limit them to a max number.

ok, ill try the new version now :)

Edit: ok, it works great, thanks :)

worst writen guide ever? i was lost from the second step.. could some one else rewrite. thanks

Nice *clicks install

no? maybe read? ... it's so easy to install...

is there any way to set it so that when someone registers, the admin of the forum is automatically on the new members friends list?

hmm want admin on every ones buddie list?? :s what for?... ( being nosy )

well, it's like myspace. when you sign up, tom is on your friends list. but it's useful b/c when people sign up, they can check out your profile and you can put site info, faq's and stuff.