Okay this is the last time I will post I promise
Okay, though I solved my problem posted above, I still was unsatisfied because I wanted the new icons to show next to the standard ones (yahoo, msn, etc.) I have found that a lot of members really only have Yahoo and AIM so I didn't feel it was necessary to have a second row for icons. So here is what I did...
I completely did away with the Social Networking section that we pasted into the postbit template originally. Here is what I deleted:
PHP Code:
<if condition="$post['fieldXX'] OR $post['fieldXX'] OR $post['fieldXX'] OR $post['fieldXX'] OR $post['fieldXX']">
<!--Social Networking-->
<div class="smallfont" align="left">
<fieldset><legend>Social Networking</legend>
<if condition="$post['fieldXX']">
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/$post[fieldXX]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/myspace.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's Myspace Profile"></a>
</if>
<if condition="$post['fieldXX']">
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/$post[fieldXX]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/facebook.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's FaceBook Profile"></a>
</if>
<if condition="$post['fieldXX']">
<a href="http://youtube.com/user/$post[fieldXX]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/youtube.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's YouTube Profile"></a>
</if>
<if condition="$post['fieldXX']">
<a href="http://myworld.ebay.com/$post[fieldXX]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/ebay.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's eBay Profile">
</if>
<if condition="$post['fieldXX']">
<a href="http://live.xbox.com/member/$post[fieldXX]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xbox.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's Xbox Profile"></a>
</if>
</fieldset>
</div>
<!--/Social Networking-->
</if>
The reason I did that is because like I said, I didn't want it in a seperate section. After doing that, I copied the icon links (the seperate sections of each site) that were in the text I deleted, and I pasted them into the text we used to FIND that section. Here is what I mean...
In postbit_legacy (just postbit for me) we FOUND:
PHP Code:
<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div>
Well after staring at everything I realized that these are the spots for the standard icons in the event the user has entered info in one of these fields in their profile. Remember this is where I wanted my new icons to go as well. So... I pasted the site sections I was using (MySpace & FaceBook) right after "$post[skypeicon]" in the above text. Here is what it looked like after doing that...
PHP Code:
<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/$post[field13]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/myspace.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's Myspace Profile"></a>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/$post[field14]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/facebook.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's FaceBook Profile"></a>
After pasting the new icon links in there, they showed up on EVERYONE'S postbit. That's NOT what I was looking for. The reason this happened is because the links were no longer in condition tags. The icons will show up no matter if the member put info in that field or not. If they had info there, clicking the icon would still take you to their page. But if they didn't put info there, it would take you to that websites homepage.
Obviously I didn't want this either (starting to see how much trial & error I had? lol). So I played around with conditionals. I went back to the original text Nick (ChU v2) gave us and took the conditionals he used. No need to reinvent the wheel. I put the conditionals around my new icon links
as a whole AND I put conditionals around each site seperately. Here is what it looked like after that...
PHP Code:
<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]
<if condition="$post['field13'] OR $post['field14']">
<if condition="$post['field13']">
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/$post[field13]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/myspace.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's Myspace Profile"></a></if>
<if condition="$post['field14']">
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/$post[field14]"target="_blank"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/facebook.gif"border="0"alt="View Member's FaceBook Profile"></a></if></div></if>
</div>
Keep in mind, my fields are in that text. So if you copy that, change the "field13" and "field14" to whatever your fields are.
NOTE: I only used MySpace and Facebook. Using all of the ones he gave us will probably cause a problem if the user has info in every field on the profile. I would think that too many icons showing will distort the layout somehow. For my site, even if they have all 5 standard fields AND MySpace & FaceBook, we'll still be good because everything will fit. If you're using everything I don't know if it will work. I would think the icons wouldn't fit. Then again, it may be set up to wrap around and start another row. I have not clue!
Alright well that's it. I now have what I want and it only took me forever
NOTE: Please don't bash me. I have only had my forum for one month and before that, I had never seen this stuff before in my life. If there was a much easier way to do it, I didn't know about it lol. I really just used common sense and patience to figure this out. This is probably basic stuff to most of you. Anyway that's what I did and I have what I want. Thanks to the creator of the hack... I learned a TON of stuff messing around with this one. It's now valued as more than just a hack to me... I appreciate it!
Here's how it looks for me now considering I only have AIM, Yahoo, and MySpace...
BEFORE:
Attachment 79867 AFTER:
Attachment 79864
And for those of you looking at my backwards post count... yes I did go back and change it to the way I didn't like it just so I could attach the "BEFORE" picture lol
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