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)

[oaddah]

<font color="Red">Thank you my friend.

Installation was successfully

It is something beautiful </font>

[CoryNickerson]

Installed. I need some kind of notificiation though. I tried that one linked above but doesnt work on 3.6.x

Are there any other mods that work like this for 3.6.x?

[Mazinger]

Can I have a conditional to show that user have no buddies/friends?

[Alfa1]

Is there a migration tool to vb 3.7's friends system? Friends and buddies do not get automatically transferred.

[jj]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is there a migration tool to vb 3.7's friends system? Friends and buddies do not get automatically transferred.

Hi,

as there is a "accept/deny" feature in the new vb 3.7 friends system I think there should not be a converter to do this automatically.

Just go to the page in your acp there and klick on the checkboxes and request the authentications.

Regards
Jens

[T3G4Life]

Does not work with VBSEO

[puregraf]

hey the link to add someone to be your friend, or add them as friend disapeared when i upgraded my vbulletin, can you please tell me how to fix this?

thanks

[Shaliza]

Does this work on 3.8?

[mknjhill]

uninstalled, it worked on SOME profiles but most of my members got database error wen they went to there profiles.