by looking at the screenshots...are you going to incorporate the "flags" hack into this as well?-looks nice!!

and dont forget to add these moods!!: Overworked,PMS

(if you can-lol) i think they would be popular on my board!!

Flags hack? Hmm....is that the one, that shows you your country flag in the post bit area?
It would be no problem to add something like that to the mood hack, but, you would now have to have the flags for the pics in the smiliey section of course...thats up to you mav...i can add the flags as a module. :)

And the mood ideas, thanks for the suggestions. i should of remembered something as simple as pms...lol...i think that would be a popular choice..and overworked...yes...my own personal favorite... which both, based on your suggestions, will also be thrown into the mood choices as well.
Thanks again, and
Keep em coming. :)

thanks for the kind words. :)

We wanted to make sure that installation of the hack went smoothly, and easily, and we accomplished that by using the documentation, and install set-up that Brad C uses for his upload script. It should insure that the mood hack will be a hopefully 3-4 minute ordeal to set up, without any problems. The only time consuming part of this hack, would be of course uploading smilieys to your board, and naming them to match the code, or if you wish to, changing the code to match the smilies you have already. Its a simple easy to use hack, with more features on the way hopefully.

I am still shooting for the three week time frame on this one...
In the last three days, i have already made roughly 9 changes to it just for tweaking purposes. Than added was a time and date stamp, and a few other things...so...if in three weeks i find that everything looks good enough to ship out, it should appear here.
It could be sooner as well...i use three weeks as the max time i have alotted myself on it.

i just now caught why you would think i included the flag hack into the mood hack..lol...the flag i have in my name area, is actually a avatar, but....it could be added farther down, like the rest of the info, as long as you had the flags at the size of a smiliey (wont distort the post bit) and also loaded into the smilies area...its possible...

I got the date part of the timestamp added.. should I add anymore than just the date..

To me.. I think adding the time is overkill in a way.. but I can.. I guess add it :)

and btw.. the userhelp file that Tora was speaking up.. will help the users understand how to use it.. and everything.. it can be changed by whoever at any time to fit your site.. does not matter I just wanted to add some help to it for the users. :)

Also.. there is no screen shots as of yet for the admin panel, and the moderator panel's... still got a couple of bugs to work out, but I will provide some screenshots here soon..

just got a lot to do this weekend.. so maybe Sunday night I will post a couple :)

i think the timestamp kind of gives people another route to see when a person was on last actually, that, and the fact you can see who maybe abusing the set up, or possibly doing a little more than just adding pics every two minutes...lol..

i just have a few questions. well i don't mean to be dis-respectful but there already is a pop-up buddy list except the only difference is that this one has close window. and also the user profile seems a bit wierd. i say so because it seems to be a page full of queries that sums up all the users info into one page. the user info page has also everything that a user profile has except search and pic which doesn't seem too hard to add. i'm not being discriminating. the mood hack seems really awsome and same with the picture upload thing but the other two i just don't understand.

well, i can honestly say, i never seen, or remember seeing a pop up buddy list anywhere in here for 2.03, and that is the honest truth. I check out the hack section quite a bit, and I am not saying that it does not exist, im just curious as to why people would be asking for it, and requesting it, if it had already been done. I could of saved a pissload of trouble making it up, if i would have known it was already done. I might also add, that i did not "steal" anything from you if that is what you are passively implying.

Also, the user profiles that i am familar with, do not have avatars in them, nor do they have the "last online" included, (not last post either...last online...big difference) Brads upload hack, my resize script for the pic in there, fomoise99's member page count hack, favorite web sites, search for member, online status, mood hack, nor the layout that it entails. True, the rest is of course, a simple layout of html, with extra user profiles added to the profile area, but, if it would deem it more of a "pro approved" hack, we could hard code that information in with no trouble. I did it this way, because it is a nice, simple approach. This page, acts as a template, so users of the hack, can do any damned thing they feel with it.
Another point I would like to bring up, is
there are people who think having 20 lines of code, for something as simple as a time stamp, is proving genious in the php rhelm. I have seen dozens of examples from people who always have to make something harder than it needs to be, just to prove how smart they are, when a simple ONE line code for a time stamp could suffice. The reason i say this is, just the other day, for my mood hack, i figured i had to make a functions script, pull data from here and there..blah blah blah, because i seen some examples that rivaled that.....than, i come home from work one day, sit down, plop in a simple time call, and data base entry, and whoola...done. works like a charm, and i didnt need to hog anybodys db up with sloppy assed coding.

Now, that brings up this point.....
If i were to lets say...make text areas for the user profile, and than hard code them in, call on the information that the user provided, and than after all of that, call on it in the user profile, would that be effecient?
No. Vb already has a user profile area, to make things up, and add the fields where necessary, so why fuc* around all day, creating something that is already done for?
Basically, all i did, was create a template. We have four or five more, that will be "modules" for people to slap in at any time they feel like it. Down the line, we may give the user to "pick" which style they would like to use...that is kind of the whole point to the simple user area....you havent seen jack yet...what we are showing, is just the crumbs off a much bigger piece of cake.

Also, if queries are going to be a issue, which i have seen some people jump on WA Jones case lately about, is that this user profile, only uses what is already there. The others are such a small query with the amount of information that they hold, it is not even a issue. I could see the complaints if we were pulling the whole front index page, the posts, and the online offline area into it, but we are not...just simple three calls, that pull basically what is already there out, which basically amounts to jack shi* as far as performance, or security is involved.

I guess the bottom line is, none of my hacks take a phd in PHP to install, or make. Its that simple. The queries are a common sense approach to pull data from the data base, i see no other way of doing it.
When my business partner and I first bought the vb licence to use and cherish for public use, i would look at these hacks, and just sit back in awe at the intelligence some of these guys had..i still do actually.....i would take some of these hacks, and actually think that i could install them...i would be reading some of this stuff, thinking to myself....just what the hell is it that you want me to do again? is all of this shi* worth it? half the time, the hacks ended up being scrapped due to difficulty. Later, i started reading more on php, learning it (still am) and asking dumb questions. (lots of them actually)

I can do quite a bit with php these days, and i am not bragging that i can do what some of these other guys can at all...my point is, that there are a few other ways to doing the hacks i did, but then i remember back to the days of just knowing how to change a couple of things in the templates, and being proud as all hell i could do that.
That is all these hacks are to. Minimal setup, maximum results, with little knowledge of what the hell makes it go round and round to begin with, and since vb already has a easy approach to some of it, why not use it.

ok, i clicked on you buddy list hack, and i can assure you, that ours are not even close to matching. totally different java code.

it didnt look like from your text file, you could pm any of the people on the list, or delte the names off that list either...when our (snyx's java script..he didnt like mine) pop up buddy list pops up, you can do all that you could, as if you were in the user control area using the buddy list there...
The close window, and the refresh link is something else i noticed yours might not of had....with the also added bonus of it working on 2.03.

if i remember rite...we have two java codes, one php file, and the link...not sure..but its not a rip off of yours.

two completely different pop up hacks.

oh hehe i'm not trying to say you took a hack or anything and i don't mind at all even if you did take it. i was just wondering the point of making another one. and the one that i made was a long time ago when i barely knew php at all so i don't mind at all. i'm working on a lot bigger project. but great job guys. your stuff looks great!

mrlister, where have you been!.. seems you have been posting less hehe :)

ummm I myself have no clue if there is a buddy list popup or not.. so I will leave that be..

as for all the queries... to me it does not seem that much.. don't worry I have in the works for multiple page profile.. so those queries can be minimized and spanned over like 5 or 6 pages.. so it will not take as much at once..

This looks great, can't wait for a release.
Nice work and cool dedication :D

ok so I can get this hack done and released... I have just one last thing to do tonight if and when I get the time and if all goes well in my last installation of it, I will release it. Any requests apon changes to it.. will not happen right away once it is released. But

we have in the works a few more things after it is done.. which is a vb template version, a multiple upload version.. which we have a 3, 6, and 10 done. Also we are working on creating a photo gallery on the side as an addon to this.. so everyone can have a mini-photo gallery.

Hiya guys/gals,

I just installed vBulletin. It'd be great if we can add this picture upload feature in the program so users can display picture(s) in their profiles.

I've seen a website that added this feature in its vBulletin (so it's a live example!) It looks great!

I hope the hack will be available soon!

cheers,

Darn, i cant wait untill this hack gets out, it must be the biggest hack yet... arg i cant wait, but i have to!

You seen one of my beta sites? Or.. someone else that has done this?

Btw... I soon as I get back.. just got done with my second job for the day.. going to sit down and try to finish this up and hopefully release my upload script tonight or tommorow.

Hi Brad,

I think that site is at http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/

cheers! :-)

<a href="http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=18" target="_blank">http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/memb...info&userid=18</a>

Looking at this it reminded me of something, any way you guys can add a spot below icq/aol/yahoo/ for hotmail?

Hotmail would fall under a email adress setup. if you are talking about msn messenger, there is a hack that allows you to log into msn from your forums below your "users online" area, and that is about as far as anyone has gone with msn. MSN is kind of particular to certain aspects of thier site/software, so i tend to leave any hacks that may include msn, out.

ok, I have went a little bit further with it. I have added a field in the profile for msn hotmail and when the user logs in their hotmail handle if they have included it in their profile automaically goes in their login field. All they have to do is put in their password.

excellent...we may have to try and work something possibly in the userprofile area for that later web...Currently, we are working on a mini gallery module that goes with the rest of the multi-page userprofile. There are a few more things that we have been tinkering with to that will make the user profile stand out as a way to get to know a member, rather than a quick glance as before. Also, many of the options that were once just user profile addons, will now be hardcoded so a person can have a seperate personal extended area, to the standard registration area.(keeps all of that information tucked away)

I don't see anything.. do I have to register to see it in my profile.. hehe... :)

Ohh well.. almost done with it.. got some more testing and documentation to finish up on.. and I think it is done! :)

Can users upload the pic(s) during registration? Or they can only upload them when they modify their profiles? Sorry if this has been discussed b4.

we have made this a strictly registered only hack. They have to register, to actually access the upload section, due in part we hid it in the profile area. Of course, if you wish to have it accessable other places, that is up to you, but we strongly suggest that you have the link in the profile area, to insure that people that access that particular link, are of course registered members of your forum.

I will bring up the hack for the userarea, that shows the links to the mood, and upload area...i have it here somewhere...lol.

Just to let you know.. I can probably make it this way... or add some small bit of code into the script to make this happen for ya..

but for the most part... when I was setting it up it was strickly for my site and the way I set it up was with that idea in mind... but after playing with it, and seeing a demand from a few people.. like toratora, snyx, and a couple of others I decided to release a version of it, so I did not want to re-write or change it cause it already worked so I left it the way it was...

See uploading when you register is really not a big deal there can be a link after it says "You have successfully registered, do you want to add a picture and other preferences?"..

or whatever. Just with the way I set it up, it shows you what picture and description you uploaded right after you upload it, which I would not do with the registration... does that make sense?

I personally would rather see them have the option to upload, after lets say....100 posts or something like that rather than rite after registration.
That is just me being overly paranoid though.
Reason being, is when they first register, and are prompted with a upload a pic type deal, they are naturally not going to read the rules, or know what the rules are, because they just registered.
Even though the uploader has the rules printed on it, there are people who just register at boards to make life miserable for everyone else, and the uploader could be the perfect tool to do so.
If anything were to be added to it, that would be the one thing i would suggest. :)

Well as you know Tora.. for my site.. that is one of the intentions... ya know :)

but.. here is what we can do... well I have this set in mine... just not active.. is from either the admin and mod panel... banning the user from the use of the upload script.

As for the 100 posts.. I guess we can set it up where the administrator can set the amount if he wants an amount.... ok more delaying.. while I play with it lol.

you have to admit, its a pretty damned good idea :)

yah it is a good idea.... for the most part :p

I have decided not to include the upload part in the registration... cause it will just make it a longer time for users to register.. and everything.

But we can make it an addon if we want too.

i see grasshopper flows compliments, like cement pouring in 30 below wind chill.........:D

(you never will admit that i might have a good idea, without throwing something in there, to NOT discredit your genious...) lol....

damned kids...:D

by the way....where is our resident alcoholic at anyways?....i havent seen snyx in awhile....i mean..he keeps this up, and you are going to be the king of liver disease. :D

Oh either way works for me! :-)

Thanks for everything!!!!!!

I am merely a peasant in your kingdom... I am just a small blade of grass on your golf course... I am almost sure I am a major part of that pain in the back of your neck... I am.. me :)

Yah.. my compliments... go down in history has a short coming don't they.. lol

The only reason that is, is cause I don't want to do anymore coding on this.. for now.. lol.. go ahead grasshopper :)

and I see snyx... puking in a bucket outside liverworst.. :D

good thing I am not a alcoholic... just a social drinker.... and DAMNED if I am social :)

Ok.. I got some screen shots of the admin and mod control panels...

Since my images are to big to attach...

here is a link to my photo gallery with them in it..

any questions on them ask away..

I do understand that in the mod part.. they moderators have the right to change the name or email address... I am going to leave it that way. and you can choose to change that, or not even add the mod part.

http://www.addictedusers.com/gallery...reenShots&img=

wow it looks great!!!!!!!! May I ask if the hack comes with a readme.txt? :-)

Here is the contents of the upload script folder

/root/

filechanges.html = changes that need to be made to vb.
upload.php = the actual script for uploading
uploadhelp.html = user help file for FAQ on uploading.
vbuploadinstall.php = installation file for the database changes

/images/
../upload_files/

profile.jpg = icon for linking to the user control panel
question.jpg = icon for linking to the user help file.

/docs/

disclamer.txt = a file giving some guidelines and like terms and conditions.
F.A.Q.txt = a little help on common asked questions for installation and information
Readme.txt = yes there is a readme, where I give credits to certain people give you an outline of the files, and some other info.
updates.txt = my change list of the upload script.

Ok.. to let you know the images for the control panels have changed hehe... sorry

As I was browsing them to make sure they work, I found that I might be the only person that trust their mods enought o give them the ability to change the username and user email, so I took that out of the mod panel. I also had to update it a little more for the fact that, I had it where yes it would remove the information in the database, but the image would still be located on the server.. duh what was I thinking? I think I have girls on my mind to damn much... oh well.. I fix that and I had at one time in the admin panel, where you can remove the user from my hack, well I changed that to delete the picture instead, why have double coding?

So.. I have sent it over to ToraTora! to take a look at when he gets a chance, after that... I am fairly certain it is ready to release, without any problems.. other than there will be a lot of small editing that everyone who downloads and installs it has to do... cause of the folder schemes and everything :)

couldn't you just make a option where you can choose if the mod's will be able to change usernames and emails,... where the options for the mod usergroup is... make a option there and people can choose if they want their mods to be able to do that stuff!

I just took that out of the mod section... for my hack, anybody can give the moderators the right to do so.. but I did not see how my addon would really need to do so. So the moderators have the right to edit the photo name, and description and delete the photo.. that is it.