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)

[cfspinner]

Great hack. Installed. I get the buddy list with avatars, but the additional friends list that show who I am a friend of will not display no matter what setting I choose. Also, the only way I could get the buddy list to display was to set show friends to no. If I set it to yes, the buddy list won't display.

Also, which template do I edit so i can center the avatars?

[StarBuG]

Hi

I tried your hack and it looks promising.

But a few changes would be great.

If a noavatar image is provided, it would be cool if all friends are shown with graphic.
Somewhat like myspace does.

It would also be cool to have an option "use default avatar size of users" (as alternate option to a fixed size like it is now)
Because if all avatars are resized to a predefined size most of them look really bad.

That would be great.

/me clicks install

[Spin Doctor]

Avatars/profilepics will not show up, if stored in filesystem!

can someone dum this down for me?

[Snake]

Thanks for the hack but I have a couple of questions.

Is this going to work just fine while I'm having my avatars as filesystem storage? Also is it possible to change the links to member's profile from "http://www.yourdomain.com/member.php?do=getinfo&username=Snake" to "http://www.yourdomain.com/member.php?u=1"?

[MistaMarkael]

so the avitars will not show on 3.6.4?

[MorrisMcD]

I have a user with a TM after his name.. The character, not just the letters TM..

Doesn't recognize it.. Is it possible to be able to add users by memberid as well or possibly fixing this?

[NoDRaC]

show all button doesnt work with vbseo
http://www.arkasokak.net/uyeler/metluca/

[Snake]

I just realized that the "Show All" link doesn't work on vBSEO so I was wondering if there's a little fix for this?

[MistaMarkael]

Originally Posted by MistaMarkael

so the avitars will not show on 3.6.4?

? ? ? ?

[ragtek]

what are friends?
i don't know where they are from