Profile Enhancements - Additional Section within Profile and Dropdown within Posts

NOTE: After checking out the vBulletin 3.7 First Look thread, which contains significant changes to the Member Profile page, it is clear that this mod as-is will probably not work properly when it comes to displaying the Extra Profile Info on that page. As soon as an official 3.7 comes out, I'll start working on the changes.

The 3.5.x version of this hack can be found here.

This hack builds upon my Extra Profile Fields Page hack. This template mod lets you take the extra fields from that hack and places them within a dropdown that sits below the user's title within each post, as well as replaces the Group Memberships area with a listing of only these specs. The EPFP hack is basically the entry form for the data that's manipulated in this hack. Please check out the pics at the EPFP hack link to get the full idea.

In my case, it is used for PC specs (and as you will see the instructions are tailored towards this), however it can be easily used for parts or specifications of almost anything (car parts for example).

An example is shown here:
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=39826

Example of user profile with specs:
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/member.php?userid=15


# of plugin hooks: 1
# of php page edits: 1 (just 1 line to add the custom hook line into member.php)
# of template edits: 3
# of phrase edits: 1

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Don't forget to hit INSTALL!

Support will only be given to people who have hit install.

Also, please post where you've installed this, as I'd like to see how people are using it. Or if guests can't see the effects, then please post a pic.

[cbiweb]

In the instructions, there's a line that says:
"New Hook Location: vBulletin: Member's Profile -> member_extras (see? I told you it would create a new hook!)"

Where exactly is 'vBulletin: Member's Profile -> member_extras'? I have no idea where I'm supposed to see that.

[shcchief]

Originally Posted by cbiweb

In the instructions, there's a line that says:
"New Hook Location: vBulletin: Member's Profile -> member_extras (see? I told you it would create a new hook!)"

Where exactly is 'vBulletin: Member's Profile -> member_extras'? I have no idea where I'm supposed to see that.

I couldn't either, I didn't worry about it though (well I don't think I did...I remember thinking wtf??) perhaps this could be the source of my problem in my post above?

[xt0m]

Cant wait for a 3.7 release either :up:

[fmntprsv]

Hi everybody. Please excuse my poor english. I?m trying to install this hook, but it doesn?t work.

Well, i have to do all the steps of the instructions, but it?s impossible, doesn?t work. You can see it at: www.razorman.net/forodeinformatica.

Please help me!

[shcchief]

Originally Posted by fmntprsv

Hi everybody. Please excuse my poor english. I?m trying to install this hook, but it doesn?t work.

Well, i have to do all the steps of the instructions, but it?s impossible, doesn?t work. You can see it at: www.razorman.net/forodeinformatica.

Please help me!

Assuming you've installed the hook, you will need to do this as well.

Click on that option


Then make all these


Then choose this option for each field


Hope that helps anyway...

[shcchief]

As for my problem...I've got the mod working fine but only for myself it seems.

I got another member to fill everything in, and nothing appeared in the postbit for his posts...it was as if the mod wasn't installed for them (i.e. no extra dropdown bar, nothing).

Any ideas?

[fmntprsv]

Thanks for your interest scchief, that?s the problem , i don?t have these field, see you:



so, ?i must to have to add manually the field "Power supply"? , excuse my ignorance please...

[shcchief]

Yeah mate, you make them yourself (whatever fields you want) and as you make each one, you select which page you want those fields to display on (look at the picture, for me it says "Options:Edit PC Specs") from the drop down box.

But yes, you have to make the fields yourself.

[fmntprsv]

Well shcchief the solution of this trouble it?s pretting closer, i think!

you select which page you want those fields to display on (look at the picture, for me it says "Options:Edit PC Specs") from the drop down box.

But yes, you have to make the fields yourself.

I was doing these steps and now appear in the profile, see the image:



Well, in order to appear these fields, the help of the forum says:

User profile fields can be displayed in posts next to the author's name. If you want to display a profile field in posts then you need to edit your postbit or postbit_legacy template (depending on which one you use as is indicated by the "Use Legacy (Vertical) Postbit Template" option in your vBulletin options) and add $post[fieldX] where X is the field ID of the profile field as shown under the "Name" column on this page.

I use postbit_legacy in my forum, but i don?t know how i can post these fields ( field12, field13, field14) on this.

?Can anybody help me?

Thanks a lot!!!!

[shcchief]

You simply replace X with the number of the field.

You will have to scroll across here to see what words I used, for example Mobo, CPU, GFX etc. Just make sure the fields tie up with each other.


Here is my postbit_legacy for this mod.

<!-- post specs_menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="specs_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	
	<if condition="$post['field6']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#00FF00>Mobo:</b></font> $post[field6]</td></tr>
	</if>

	<if condition="$post['field7']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#FF9900>CPU:</b></font> $post[field7]</td></tr>
	</if>

	<if condition="$post['field12']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#00FF00>GFX:</b></font> $post[field12]</td></tr>
	</if>

	<if condition="$post['field8']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#FF9900>RAM:</b></font> $post[field8]</td></tr>
	</if>

	<if condition="$post['field9']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#00FF00>Sound:</b></font> $post[field9]</td></tr>
	</if>

	<if condition="$post['field10']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#FF9900>PSU:</b></font> $post[field10]</td></tr>
	</if>

	<if condition="$post['field11']">
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><b><font color=#00FF00>O/S:</b></font> $post[field11]</td></tr>
	</if>

	</table>
</div>
<!-- / post specs_menu -->