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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.