Profile Enhancements - Friends and/or Buddies on Profile

WHAT's THIS

• This product adds a public friends and/or buddy list in the profile.
• What are friends? Friends means you are on each others buddylists. It is no seperate addition/addon. It's all based on vb's buddy system.
• Need more info? Look at the attached screenshots, or the live demo(s).
• Avatars/profilepics will not show up, if stored in filesystem!
• Need some kind of informing the users, which have been added to a buddy list? Look at the AutoPM after addBuddy Plugin by Antivirus
• The product adds 2 queries to the profile page

INSTALLATION


Install with product manager.


Set your preferences in the acp (vBulletin options)


Add

PHP Code:

$FNB_HTML 


somewhere in your MEMBERINFO template. Whereever you'd like to show up the friends or buddies. If you're not sure what to do, search for

<if condition="$show['signature']">

in your MEMBERINFO template and add it before that line.


OPTIONAL (User selectable)


If you want to have this user-selectable you need to add a custom profile field. Create the new field as a radiobutton, give it a name and description of your choice, the options yes and no and use the following code instead of only $FNB_HTML:

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldXX] == yes">$FNB_HTML</if>

(if user wishes to show up)
or

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldXX] != no">$FNB_HTML</if>

(show by default, user can deactivate it)

Remember to replace XX with the number of the new profilefield!


TODO

• Looking into avatar/profilepicture display/detection
• Online status of friends/buddies
• ?SEO compatibility?

LIVE DEMO(S)

• http://www.myrabbits.de/forum/member.php?u=35&styleid=1

CREDITS


Thx to Cloud-Warrior for inspiration and idea. If you want a seperate friends page, too, get the vBFriends extension by Cloud-Warrior.

vwturbo (for the idea of gettin profilepics instead of avatars),
gamebgs (limitting shown friends/buddies to a max number),
D|ver (hiding the information who you got in your buddy list and whohas added you to his buddy list),
yayvb (show a "no avatar" picture if no avatar is available),
ThorstenA (see changelog version 1.0.2)

[ChU v2]

*Bump
Any ideas?

[AKapadia]

Originally Posted by ChU v2

Installed, but on the profile page, there is no images for avatars or profile pics, it just displays the username.

Does user has the avatar and check ur setting in Vbulletin Options!

[ChU v2]

Originally Posted by AKapadia

Does user has the avatar and check ur setting in Vbulletin Options!

Ah ok, I had to set the height and width of the avatar to 0. Thanks, great mod!

[AKapadia]

Originally Posted by jj

Hey that's a good idea, I will add that

Thanks hope to see it before i release my site to public

[Cubevisions]

Hope that you can finish the next version soon. Great great work.

[chickadee]

Fantastic mod!

Is it possible to show some sort of if conditional that would show a link to add the user to your buddylist if they're not on it already? And if they are on your buddylist, the link would show an option to remove from friends or to ignore?
Thanks!!

[trackpads]

I love this hack

[rabbits slayer]

Hi, eveytime I click on a member on a buddylist...it'll direct me to an incorrect link.

Example:

linkk would take me to something like

http://mysite.com/forum.php/member.php?u=23

instead of

http://mysite.com/member.php?u=23 (correct link)

Pls help. Thanks.

Edit: Nevermind. Fixed.

[military-space]

works like a dream...thank-you! I have tried another hack that was just too cumbersome and difficult to install and this one was a breeze!

[YHB]

Installed...this is great, Thanks!