This hack will add an extra page to the User CP. This area can be used for extra profile fields that for one reason or another you would like to split from the main list.
Personally, I use this page for PC specs, but it can also be used for other specs as well (e.g. cars). I have the specs in a dropdown list under the user title in each user's post, as well as in their profile page, but that's another hack You can see my 3.0.x hack for that here, and the 3.5.x hack for it here.
NOTE: The above 2 links show the results of another hack I did that's based upon this one. In otherwords, this hack doesn't add dropdowns in posts, and doesn't hack the member page to display the extra options in a new area. For that, install the Add-On hack, Additional Section within Profile and Dropdown within Posts.
# of plugin hooks: 1
# of php page edits: 3 (or 4)
# of new templates: 1
# of template edits: 1
# of new phrases: 2
The "successfully saved" and extra option search are not tested, but they should both work.
Hmm.. I just can't get this to work. My board is heavily modified, but I don't see which one could possibly conflict with this profile field hack. I'm not very familiar with how plugins work exactly, but is their a certain location I should look at and disable other plugins that might be conflicting with this hack?
Sure. Can't think off the top of my head what would do it though. doesn't make sense, as all the hack really does is to mark profile fields to be editable in a different location.
I'm thinking of doing a upgrade for this hack. Basically, instead of storing info in profile fields, it'd store them in a SQL table. This would make it easier to have multiple pages of the same item (e.g. car stats, PC specs, etc), although it would still suffer from the same issue this current version has, where if you want multiple pages with different specs in each one, then you'd have to install the hack multiple times.
I'm thinking of doing a upgrade for this hack. Basically, instead of storing info in profile fields, it'd store them in a SQL table. This would make it easier to have multiple pages of the same item (e.g. car stats, PC specs, etc), although it would still suffer from the same issue this current version has, where if you want multiple pages with different specs in each one, then you'd have to install the hack multiple times.
in the text file instructions (and the extra plugins) would be replaced by something else (just add a 2 at the end for instance). You'd also need to add extra vbphrases and change them accordingly throught the plugin and text file instructions.
If you wanted to you could have them all in the same page, just depends on how much extra coding you'd want to do for the custom page.
Can you give a clearer instruction on how to create multiple pages? When I searched the code in the .xml and .txt instructions, do=extra came up only once each. Also, I'm not sure how to upload a .xml product copy since it asks you to overwrite the previous one. Thanks.
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You can see my 3.0.x hack for that here, and the 3.5.x hack for it here.
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