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.

[nighthalk]

Sent you pm with login details and yes field 23 is the operating system field.

[Wired1]

Try this:

<!-- post specs_menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="specs_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$post[username]'s System Specs</td>
	</tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Operating System: $post[field23]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Motherboard: $post[field11]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Processor: $post[field12]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Memory: $post[field13]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Video Card: $post[field14]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Hard Drive: $post[field17]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Hard Drive 2: $post[field18]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Hard Drive 3: $post[field16]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Optical Drive: $post[field19]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Optical Drive 2: $post[field20]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Sound Card: $post[field21]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Monitor: $post[field22]</td></tr>
		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Power Supply: $post[field15]</td></tr>
	</table>
</div>
<!-- / post specs_menu -->

[nighthalk]

Ok I got it the problem was I put half the code in postbit_legacy and the other half in postbit.

lmao

Thanks for your help man. Thats what I get for sleeping while reading instructions.

[Wired1]

lol, glad to hear it works

[imports]

i did all them instruction and double check my work but i don't see any drop down on the profile fields i can't even see this one

New Hook Location: vBulletin: Member's Profile -> member_extras (see? I told you it would create a new hook!)

www.importsview.com

help anyone?

[Wired1]

Can you clarify what you mean? Please PM me a test account on your site, that may help.

[Dave-M]

Would anyone like to reveal how they got this working on 3.7.0 please?

Thanks

[Wired1]

Don't recall anyone saying they did actually. I'm working on it right now actually, and they've moved quite a bit of functions around, and changed some functions. Haven't looked at the dropdown yet, but can't see it being that difficult to get up and running.

[viper357]

Originally Posted by Wired1

Don't recall anyone saying they did actually. I'm working on it right now actually, and they've moved quite a bit of functions around, and changed some functions. Haven't looked at the dropdown yet, but can't see it being that difficult to get up and running.

That would be awesome Wired1.

This is one of the main add-ons that is making me reluctant to upgrade to 3.7 as I really do not want to lose this add-on, my members love it.

Thanks for the hard work you're putting into this :up::up::up:

[Dave-M]

Originally Posted by Wired1

Don't recall anyone saying they did actually. I'm working on it right now actually, and they've moved quite a bit of functions around, and changed some functions. Haven't looked at the dropdown yet, but can't see it being that difficult to get up and running.

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but when I applied my entire database backup to my new installation, the dropdown and everything was still working. I had to update my custom template and that's where I realised things were different.

The other half of your hack is working as far as the extra profile fields are concerned.

I will happily drop you a few $$ when this is done, it is one of the most handy hacks I use

Dave.