Make other Profile fields parse as URLs?

[Threshold]

The homepage profile field automatically parses as a URL.

On my site, I have two profile fields that would be dramatically improved if they were automatically treated as URLs (they are entries where a player can put a link to a RL picture and a character picture).

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

[filburt1]

If they're just URLs, just edit the appropriate templates to include <a> tags...

[Threshold]

I don't want *ALL* of the profile fields to be parsed as URLs.

For example, user profiles on my vBulletin have 6 required fields and 9 optional fields.

1 required field is email address, the other 5 are plain text.

Of the optional fields, 1 is a URL (homepage), 1 is signature, 1 is birthday, 1 is custom user text, and the other 5 are plain text.

I want 2 of those last 5 to be parsed as URLs, rather than plain text.

Unless I am missing something, the template just parses through a loop and treats them all the same, thus I cannot edit each individual one. Or am I missing something and not remembering or understanding correctly how the profile template works?

The two fields I want treated as URLs are called "Your Real Life Picture" and "Your Character's Picture."

I just used the Template Search function to look for those, and the search turned up nothing.

Am I just not understanding the way the template functions for parsing the user profile fields?

[Threshold]

Ok, from further reading through the various files, everywhere the custom fields are handled (either for changing them or for viewing them), the code always says this:

$customfields

However, I cannot find where it is that I can edit that.

I have done numerous searches to no avail.

[Boofo]

Look in functions.php for profile[fieldx].

Be sure to replace the x with the profile field number you are looking for.

[Threshold]

Even further investigation has found that this is the template that handles the parsing of the custom fields:

getinfo_customfields

<tr>
<td bgcolor="$backcolor"><normalfont><b>$profilefield[title]</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="$backcolor"><normalfont>$profilefield[value]&nbsp;</normalfont></td>
</tr>

To test this, I changed that code to this:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="$backcolor"><normalfont><b>$profilefield[title]</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="$backcolor"><normalfont><a target="_blank" href="$profilefield[value]">$profilefield[value]</a>&nbsp;</normalfont></td>

</tr>

Now, the problem is, that turns *ALL* of my custom fields into URLs. Obviously, that is a bad thing.

Is there any way to only have it change a couple specific ones into URLs?

I don't imagine if() statements work here.

[Threshold]

Today at 04:32 PM Boofo said this in Post #5
Look in functions.php for profile[fieldx].

Be sure to replace the x with the profile field number you are looking for.

Ok, I am looking through that file (admin/functions.php) and when I search for profile the only place it comes up is here:

Line 260: eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";");

Line 283: $post[profile]="";

[Threshold]

Ugh. I hate reading code I do not fully understand. It makes me feeling like a programming n00b all over again.

As I read further, could it be THIS that I need to modify?

member.php lines 1379-1399:

  // get extra profile fields
  $customfields = '';
  $profilefields=$DB_site->query("SELECT profilefieldid,required,title
                                  FROM profilefield
                                  WHERE hidden=0
                                  ORDER BY displayorder");
  while ($profilefield=$DB_site->fetch_array($profilefields)) {
    if ($backcolor=="{firstaltcolor}") {
      $backcolor="{secondaltcolor}";
			$bgclass = "alt2";
    } else {
      $backcolor="{firstaltcolor}";
		  $bgclass = "alt1";
    }

    $profilefieldname="field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
    $profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];
    eval("\$customfields .= \"".gettemplate("getinfo_customfields")."\";");

  }

Maybe this line (1395):

$profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];

Should be changed to something like this? ==>

    if($profilefieldname == "Your Real Life Picture" || $profilefieldname == "Your Character's Picture") {
        $profilefield[value]= <a target="_blank" href="$userinfo[$profilefieldname]">$userinfo[$profilefieldname]</a> ;
    } else {
        $profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];
    }

or

    if($profilefieldname == "Your Real Life Picture" || $profilefieldname == "Your Character's Picture") {
        $profilefield[value]= "<a target="_blank" href="$userinfo[$profilefieldname]">$userinfo[$profilefieldname]</a>" ;
    } else {
        $profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];
    }

???

[Threshold]

Problem solved due to something I read in another hack.

Zzed's hack found here had code for making an image show up in a profile field.

It turns out I was looking in exactly the right place, but I just needed to know the proper php syntax to do this properly. I must say that I am shocked to learn that PHP uses "and" and "or" instead of "&&" and "||". What kind of language doesn't use && and || ???????????

Anyway, this is how I accomplished the hack:

I changed this line (1395):

$profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];

to:

if(strstr($profilefield[title], "Your Real Life Picture") or strstr($profilefield[title], "Your Character's Picture")) {
$profilefield[value]="<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$userinfo[$profilefieldname]\">$userinfo[$profilefieldname]</a>";
} else {
$profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];
}

Problem solved!

Does anyone see any problems or flaws in my hack?