vBFriends - View your social network and surf to others in vBulletin 3.5

As with vBFOAF, I've just released this mod. (There are no modications needed really, so it's more of an add-on.)

Please note that your buddy list becomes public (to other registered users) with vBFriends, so you will have to notify people of the small change in policy.

Put the attached file in your vbulletin folder, and call with the u=1 parameter, e.g.

http://www.vbulletin.ie/forums/friends.php?u=1

You can surf your social network (similar to orkut), and view connections you have made to others and that others have made to you (similar to FOAF, or as illustrated with plink.org).

Screenshot attached.

The code contains some hardcoded HTML to avoid the use of templates (for now), but it uses standard vB3 CSS classes such as tcat, thead, smallfont, alt1 and alt2 - so should be fine with most styles.

Changelog:

PHP Code:

// 0.1 - 2004-06-23 - First version
// 0.2 - 2004-06-24 - Added missing trailing slash
// 0.3 - 2004-06-28 - Added missing TABLE_PREFIX to tables
// 0.4 - 2004-07-01 - Added functionality for enemies
// 1.0 - 2004-07-21 - No comment
// 1.1 - 2004-09-09 - Added mutual percentage, in and out counts, link and unlink options for own account
// 1.2 - 2005-11-24 - Updated for the vB 3.5 series 


I have edited my postbit/postbit_legacy template, and linked it from there, e.g. under the reputation part, add in something like:

<a class="smallfont" href="friends.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">Friends</a>

[Polo]

how would this hack work in a huge forum??? more than 10,000 users??

[jeffj]

Originally Posted by Polo

how would this hack work in a huge forum??? more than 10,000 users??

HUGE?

I have 123,000 members and it works fine on my forum.

[Anarchy]

Users who are not logged in and go to the page get a blank page, can we get it so it says they are not allowed here and to login?

Also the profile pic if you store it on file doesn't show.

Will see if i can fix the bug but maybe someone else knows.

[Anarchy]

$userinfo['avatarurl'] is blank

also empty($userinfo['profilepicdateline']) seems to not be working, even tho i have my avatars on the file system it still choosed the image.php instead of the first option.

PHP Code:

if (empty($userinfo['profilepicdateline'])) {
        $HTML .= "<img width="64" height="64" src="".$userinfo['avatarurl']."" alt=""><br />";
    }
    else {
        $HTML .= "<img src="".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/image.php?u=".$userinfo['userid']."&amp;type=profile&amp;dateline=".$userinfo['profilepicdateline']."" alt=""><br />";
    } 


[futuredood]

is their any way to re arrange your friends list?

[Chicago_VLNU_4s]

is there supposed to be a "+" next to a user's name that i added as buddy when looking at who's online?

and why when i look at other peoples friends from postbit, there avatar pic link seems broken?

[Chicago_VLNU_4s]

nvm... i think its broken because it's the picture feild, and if a user hasn't uploaded a pic, thats why it shows broken.

[noonespecial]

Has anyone been able to add a pagination to the friends page?

http://www.absolutepunk.net/friends.php?u=1083

It'd really improve my friends system. Any ideas?

[futuredood]

Originally Posted by noonespecial

Has anyone been able to add a pagination to the friends page?

http://www.absolutepunk.net/friends.php?u=1083

It'd really improve my friends system. Any ideas?

Hey Noone, your friends page is nice. How did you get it listed verically that way?

[noonespecial]

Originally Posted by futuredood

Hey Noone, your friends page is nice. How did you get it listed verically that way?

Uhm .. I don't even remember; if you want my page I'll upload it here and let you dig through it.