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)

[jj]

Originally Posted by MaestroX

Thanks for this, I hope people expand on improving the profiles in vB3.6 at the moment there arn't many mods out there.

p.s. The demo site has a really nice layout of the profile. Anychance you'll release a mod to do similar?

Thanks once again

There was a big thread regarding the pimping of the profile, but I couldn't find it now. If you are interested in the MEMBERINFO content, just send me a note, and I'll send you the code back.

[napukjon]

Works fine, only problem i have is that the avatars arent showing when i have them to show

[MaestroX]

Originally Posted by jj

There was a big thread regarding the pimping of the profile, but I couldn't find it now. If you are interested in the MEMBERINFO content, just send me a note, and I'll send you the code back.

Thankyou, pm sent

[AK47 Nemesis]

Nice, but how do you make the avatars their normal height and width? Since they are pretty small now. If you could tell me, it would be awesome.

[jj]

Originally Posted by AK47 Nemesis

Nice, but how do you make the avatars their normal height and width? Since they are pretty small now. If you could tell me, it would be awesome.

Set width and height in the VBSettings in the ACP to 0. So they will scale to the original sizes.

[adonfun]

Looks like a great mod.

Update mu (us) when its 3.6.4 ready

[Brew]

Originally Posted by FleaBag

Shame that filesystem images won't work though. I guess I'll have to reluctantly move them back into database to use this beauty.

Can you explain how to move image from the file system?

I've looked all over and can't seem to find the setting

Thank you!

edit: nm...I found it

[Brew]

After moving image to the filesystem and also after moving the image back into the database the avatars still won't show

Any ideas what I should do?

Here's the profile:
http://www.tankkillers.com/forums/member.php?u=1

Thank you!

[obmob]

Oh, i like the idea, and that member template... anywhere i can get the code for that template?

thanks

[jj]

Originally Posted by Brew

After moving image to the filesystem and also after moving the image back into the database the avatars still won't show

Any ideas what I should do?

Here's the profile:
http://www.tankkillers.com/forums/member.php?u=1

Thank you!

I am able to see the avatar of you on that link. Btw you're using 3.6.3 right? Seems like it works on 3.6.3, too