New hack: Advance Profile Page
 

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Advance Profile Page
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==Original hack idea & feature idea credits: hellsatan

==Features

• Select which user's can use APP (Advance Profile Page)
  
• Minimum posts to use APP
  
• Flash Avatars
  
• User Picture
  
• Longer Biography
  
• User Comments (hellsatans suggestion)
  
• Upload Desktop Image
  
• User Rating
  
• User Defined Welcome Message (hellsatans suggestion)
  
• vBNotePad (hellsatans suggestion)

==Description
APP allows your users to add a little bit more to their profile, but depending on whether you think they deserve it or earned it. You can choose which features appear on APP via the Admin CP. There are 9 features, equaling to 9 queries. So for each feature enabled, it adds a query.

==Description of featurs

• Flash Avatars - Allow a user to use flash formatted avatars
  
• User Picture - Allow a user to upload a picture of them (Limited size)
  
• Longer Biography - A much longer textarea to add much more detail to their bio. (Limited size)
  
• User Comments - Allow other users to add comments to this user
  
• Upload Desktop Image - Allow a user to upload their desktop image (dimensions allowed: 800x600, 1024x768)
  
• User Rating - Allow other users to rate this user
  
• User Defined Welcome Message - Allow a user to change the pre-defined welcome message on forum home
  
• vBNotePad - Much like FireFly's vBPad

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hellsatan came up with the original idea and is making one private version for his board.

Basically I want some feedback on the this hack idea and what you you think would be good to add

Remember use of Flash allows ActionScript (AFAIK similar to Javascript) and can introduce the same XSS problems as with enabling HTML.

Right, ok, thanks. I have a rethink of Flash Avatar.

Thanks nibbler

This sounds promising :), too bad it's too close to vB3's release, make it for vB3 instead ;). I've put all my hacking on hold until then.

Thanks. But i'm still doing it for vB2;)

But defintly do it for vB3 shortley afterwards.

If Lesane and g-force2k2 still aren't around for vB3, I'll probably release my version(s) of the Warning Hack and Store Hack, but that's IF I can be bothered and most likely I won't...:p

Cool:p I'll be releasing all my hacks again for vB3.

Anyways, back with the hack - You got any ideas that would be useful?

A journal-blow type thing where the user can post up entries would be cool.

a "other notes" section for the user to put any miscellaneous content could be useful.

I can't think of anything else at the moment...I'll reply again if I think of something...

Good ideas. Thanks:)

I suppose you could have more fields like favourite food, favourite x, favourite y, favourite z, you know, a more in depth profile, so you know more about this user...

Another would be favourite quote...

And favourite post/thread...

Also, fields which are empty/not used's tables should not be shown etc.

1st;
That's what the extra long bio field is for

2nd;
Again the bio field

3rd;
Good Idea

4th;
Was going to anyway;)

5th (extra);
I might add "Last 5 posts"

Steven... this looks good. I'm holding off all the hacks I want to install untill a vB3 version comes out

/me waits patiently for vB3 public beta

Steve, the last 5 posts thing, make sure it's not an intensive query/make sure there aren't many queries...

I think you should aim for < 16 queries for this Advanced Profile Page.

Thanks.

So far, completed:
Select which user's can use APP
Minimum posts to use APP

Thats probably all the admin extras that will be needed.

Yeah I know, that will be the main problem.

I've got a good idea:

Have in each usergroup's settings, "Can have an advanced profile page"

And then, do an if statement in admin/user.php so it finds if this user's usergroupid can have APP's...

If the user's usergroup CAN, show a field in the user's adminCP profile "can have an Advanced Profile Page".

So this way, it works two ways, you can have a usergroup allowed it, while specific users in it can't have it :).

To make life easier for you, have a page in the adminCP that displays which users can't have an APP but their usergroup can, because most likely these are the trouble makers.

A way the code for this page can be written:

First get usergroupids which can have an APP.
Then do a select from the user table, WHERE: usergroupid is in array of results produced from first query, and then: AND canhaveAPP=0

So that last part will take users who's usergroup allows them an APP but they specifically can't have one...

Don't forget though that things will be done differently for adding users in the adminCP as they don't have a usergroup yet...so you must take it that they're in usergroupid 2, but it could be 3 if COPPA, so that will require a little thinking.

I see. Great idea, I'll do that now.:)

i want it vb3 man :)

Oh, sounds great.

/me wants to test it as soon as possible!

Thanks. If I dont finish it before vB3 comes out, I will scrap it for vB2 and start with vB3:)

Admin Screenshot:

So far, if the user has less than 300 posts, they dont see the link in the User CP (or if their usergroup cant view it, or don't have access)

I believe thats most of the admin end done.

Done:
If a user has less than x posts, the dont see UserCP link
If their usergroup doesnt allow APP, then its not availible when editing that use, nor can he see the link
If you have selected 'no' to user using APP they, again, dont see the link

Now I am working on the features you allow, whether they show up or not.

This is everything I've been looking for except for a few things.

- I need to have a rating system (like hot or not) from 1 to 10 that would be under the user's picture.

- A place where the user can list a few favorite webpage links

I think I've seen some sort of rating hack out there but it would be nice to be all in one.

Great hack, I will be installing this as soon as I can!! When will it be relesed?

DJNth

I think I mentioned in the first post, if I didnt complete this before the release of vB3 BETA, I would stop it for vB2. So i'll be completing this when vB3 RC/Gold is availible

any progress?

For vB2, no - I still haven't decided to release a vB2 version.

For vB3, yes - Will be a while before it's release though (3 other hacks to work on for vB3;))

:( most users are on vb2 and thats the classic please release

I agree, please consider releasing for vb2.:rolleyes:

htscpl

I would love to use this!

with this hack, would you be able to integrate it with the Lesane store hack, so that users can "buy" the advanced profile? If so, is there anyone that can assist with this as i am a complete noob

Please email me

Leigh
sysadmin@silenthilldomain.com

I sincerely hope that you continue development for the vb2 version! I personally find some of the features built into vb3 a bit too much. The quick reply is ok, plus the user profile, but as long as vb2 has hacks and mods to achieve what I want, I will stick with it. Please finish the vb2 version, you do already have so much done on it, why not continue and use it as a blueprint for the vb3?

Hi

I ?m working on a site for an international non-profit organization. The online community will be key, and so we?re looking at various ways to incorporate member to member feedback into the site. Before beginning this research, we planned a hack that we thought might do the trick. It?s outlined below. However, we would like to ask if you all think that other, existing hacks-like this one- might be equally/more functional. Anyway here was our idea:

First, one would create a forum exclusively for positive feedback.
The hack would then:

1) Create a new thread for each user upon registration. The thread could be named after the user in some standard format. (amykhar already did this, it seems: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...light=feedback Would her hack work as part of this scheme?)
2) Paste the URL for that user?s feedback thread directly into his/her signature, perhaps just after ?Feedback at:?

We thought this might be a very elegant way to incorporate feedback into VB, as the forum?s features would very functional. For example:

It would be easy to click from a users post to his/her feedback thread, because the link would be in the signature. Likewise, it would be easy to jump to or from their profile, which would facilitate making contact.
Because the forum is only for positive feedback, ranking by post would have meaning.
Similarly, hot threads would point to people who have done a lot of good work recently.
The report bad post feature could be used to report the presence of negative feedback.
We?re assuming that everyone would subscribe to their own feedback thread and so would be automatically notified.

Thanks