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>

[TunerNetwork]

Installed this, was working perfect for bout 2 weeks, now getting the following error:

 Database error in vBulletin 3.5.3:
 
Invalid SQL:
SELECT user.username,user.userid,usertextfield.buddylist FROM
        user,usertextfield WHERE
        user.userid = usertextfield.userid AND
        FIND_IN_SET('881', REPLACE(usertextfield.buddylist, ' ', ',')) > 0
        ORDER BY user.username;
 
MySQL Error  : Got error 28 from table handler
Error Number : 1030
Date         : Monday, February 27th 2006 @ 09:19:14 PM
Script       : http://www.tunernetwork.com/forum/member.php?u=881
Referrer     : http://www.tunernetwork.com/forum/
IP Address   :
Username     :
Classname    :

anyone get this?

[Exitilus]

I'm not sure if other people have the same thing happen. But it seems that users that are not logged in (or guests) can't view this page? ... Comes up completely blank.

[Blackhat]

how do you make this wrap ? One of my members got 7 members on the line and that makes the page wider than allowed

[thumbsucker]

BUG: Get a blank page when trying to view a user's Friend's page as a GUEST user.

I get a broken link box if the user does not have a profile pic.

Any way to get a small gif that says "No profile picture" to display instead?

[Serial Killer]

I don't want to call it vBfriends. How do I change the name to something else?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by thumbsucker

I get a broken link box if the user does not have a profile pic.

I also get the 'broken link' box showing.

[Cloud-Warrior]

Yes the page is blank if you are not logged in.

To change the name from vBFriends, just edit any reference to it in the file.

In related news, I've posted on my wiki some information on how to view these buddylists or social networks graphically. It's not for the newbie, but people familiar with PHP and MySQL should find it easy enough to follow.

http://www.johnbreslin.com/wiki/inde..._Visualisation

[noonespecial]

Is there anyway to add pagination for this? That'd be a big help for those with a lot of friends ... and would probably cut down on server load too.

[silkie]

is there a stable release of this hack for vb3.5.4? anyone have this working on their 3.5.4 board?

[JazzleBug]

This is so cool - my members are going to love this. Thank you!