Friends and/or Buddies on Profile
 

WHAT's THIS

• This product adds a public friends and/or buddy list in the profile.
• What are friends? Friends means you are on each others buddylists. It is no seperate addition/addon. It's all based on vb's buddy system.
• Need more info? Look at the attached screenshots, or the live demo(s).
• Avatars/profilepics will not show up, if stored in filesystem!
• Need some kind of informing the users, which have been added to a buddy list? Look at the AutoPM after addBuddy Plugin by Antivirus
• The product adds 2 queries to the profile page

INSTALLATION


Install with product manager.


Set your preferences in the acp (vBulletin options)


Add somewhere in your MEMBERINFO template. Whereever you'd like to show up the friends or buddies. If you're not sure what to do, search for in your MEMBERINFO template and add it before that line.


OPTIONAL (User selectable)


If you want to have this user-selectable you need to add a custom profile field. Create the new field as a radiobutton, give it a name and description of your choice, the options yes and no and use the following code instead of only $FNB_HTML:

(if user wishes to show up)
or

(show by default, user can deactivate it)

Remember to replace XX with the number of the new profilefield!


TODO

• Looking into avatar/profilepicture display/detection
• Online status of friends/buddies
• ?SEO compatibility?

LIVE DEMO(S)

• http://www.myrabbits.de/forum/member.php?u=35&styleid=1

CREDITS


Thx to Cloud-Warrior for inspiration and idea. If you want a seperate friends page, too, get the vBFriends extension by Cloud-Warrior.

vwturbo (for the idea of gettin profilepics instead of avatars),
gamebgs (limitting shown friends/buddies to a max number),
D|ver (hiding the information who you got in your buddy list and whohas added you to his buddy list),
yayvb (show a "no avatar" picture if no avatar is available),
ThorstenA (see changelog version 1.0.2)

v2.0.2

• [Fix] Fixed the german xml file on 2007-27-08

v2.0.2

• [Fix] Add/remove buddy phrases switched

v2.0.1

• [Fix] Error in pagination count and displayed entries mismatched
• [Fix] Profile links by username should work now

v2.0.0

• [Change] GLOBAL Phrases now in sperate phrasegroup
• [Add] HTML code now in template system
• [Add] Pagination

v1.0.5

• [Fix] Prevent showing the "red X" in Internet Explorer, if no profile pic is set and you're using file based storage of the profile pics

v1.0.4

• [Add] Option to set hight/width of avatar/profilepic
• [Add] Option to use profilelinks with id or username
• [Add] Option to show only friends/buddies with username if you limit them to a max number

v1.0.3

• [New] It's a product now
• [Add] Phrased
• [Add] Setup options moved to ACP (vBulletin options)
• [Fix] Little fix with added option from 1.0.2

v1.0.2

• [Add] Option to remove "friends" from being shown in buddy-list and buddy-by-list

v1.0.1

• [Add] Friends list/Buddy list will not show up, if no friends are available. Also the additional Buddylist/Added by list will not show up if both of the are empty (i.e. you added no buddy and were not added by anyone else to his buddylist)
• [Add] Prefixes to add/remove buddies in the additional lists now editable in setup part (what is meant exactly? these: [+], [-] as the default)

v1.0.0

• Initial release

Thanks for the confirmation that it will work in 3.6.x... Shame that filesystem images won't work though. I guess I'll have to reluctantly move them back into database to use this beauty. A question: How are friends sorted?

They are ordered by username. If you want to change it, you need to edit the plugin code under the hook "member_complete" on line 21 from
to something like
ie. for randomization. Someone mentioned that in the 3.5.x Thread already.

The buddy-by ordering is located on line 44.

Cool idea, thanks! :)

The beauty of RAND. :)

Exactly how I'd like to do it, thanks for the info jj. :)

Hi, I have installed your 3.5 Release in my vb 3.6.0
So is there any need to update or re-install it to this 3.6 release?

thanks.

No, as you can read under "EXTRA INFORMATION" it's absolutely the same version and code. I've just tested it myself with a 3.6.0 vb.

okay, thanks :)

Thanks for this, I hope people expand on improving the profiles in vB3.6 at the moment there arn't many mods out there.

p.s. The demo site has a really nice layout of the profile. Anychance you'll release a mod to do similar?

Thanks once again

There was a big thread regarding the pimping of the profile, but I couldn't find it now. If you are interested in the MEMBERINFO content, just send me a note, and I'll send you the code back.

Works fine, only problem i have is that the avatars arent showing when i have them to show

Thankyou, pm sent :)

Nice, but how do you make the avatars their normal height and width? Since they are pretty small now. If you could tell me, it would be awesome.

Set width and height in the VBSettings in the ACP to 0. So they will scale to the original sizes.

Looks like a great mod.

Update mu (us) when its 3.6.4 ready :)

Can you explain how to move image from the file system?

I've looked all over and can't seem to find the setting :(

Thank you!

edit: nm...I found it :)

After moving image to the filesystem and also after moving the image back into the database the avatars still won't show :(

Any ideas what I should do?

Here's the profile:
http://www.tankkillers.com/forums/member.php?u=1

Thank you!

Oh, i like the idea, and that member template... anywhere i can get the code for that template? :p

thanks

I am able to see the avatar of you on that link. Btw you're using 3.6.3 right? Seems like it works on 3.6.3, too :)

Great hack. Installed. I get the buddy list with avatars, but the additional friends list that show who I am a friend of will not display no matter what setting I choose. Also, the only way I could get the buddy list to display was to set show friends to no. If I set it to yes, the buddy list won't display.

Also, which template do I edit so i can center the avatars?

Hi

I tried your hack and it looks promising.

But a few changes would be great.

If a noavatar image is provided, it would be cool if all friends are shown with graphic.
Somewhat like myspace does.

It would also be cool to have an option "use default avatar size of users" (as alternate option to a fixed size like it is now)
Because if all avatars are resized to a predefined size most of them look really bad.

That would be great.

/me clicks install

can someone dum this down for me?

Thanks for the hack but I have a couple of questions.

Is this going to work just fine while I'm having my avatars as filesystem storage? Also is it possible to change the links to member's profile from "http://www.yourdomain.com/member.php?do=getinfo&username=Snake" to "http://www.yourdomain.com/member.php?u=1"?

so the avitars will not show on 3.6.4?

I have a user with a TM after his name.. The character, not just the letters TM..

Doesn't recognize it.. Is it possible to be able to add users by memberid as well or possibly fixing this?

show all button doesnt work with vbseo :(
http://www.arkasokak.net/uyeler/metluca/

I just realized that the "Show All" link doesn't work on vBSEO so I was wondering if there's a little fix for this? :)

? ? ? ?

what are friends?
i don't know where they are from

So there will be no answer by me :)

Read in the first post, thx.

Got no SEO, so I can't test/fix it.

This needs some editing in the Script. But I think its possible to go with the memberid. I will write that request down and implement it, when we updated to the latest vbulletin version (we're waiting for 3.6.5).

Great Hack!

Is it possible to set that the admin is by default a friend of every new user?

Thank you!

I have 3.6.5. I have the mod installed but I don't see the avatars. My images are stored in my database. Here's my profile

http://www.sofreshforums.com/member.php?u=1

It has been released finally. :D

I thought I'd just confirm that this is running fine on 3.6.5 - As you can see here.

How can I get $FNB_HTML to display in the homepage of the UserCP. Can someone please either post or PM me.

anyone got any ideas? no clue what I'm doing wrong.