Forum Display Enhancements - Xbox LIVE Gamercard in Postbit

Want to Add your Xbox LIVE Gamercard to Your Forum Postbit?

With just an addition of a profile field and one template edit, you'll have your Xbox LIVE Gamercard show up in the postbit in no time!

Demo - http://www.xboxoneclans.com/showthread.php?t=5888

If you already have the GamerCards Block in Profile mod, then you can simply use the Xbox Live profile field # that you created for the Xbox Live gamertag instead of creating a new profile field for your postbit.

If you already have the above mod, skip the next step.

Step 1 - Making the Profile Field

1. Create a new User Profile Field
2. Select "Single-Line Text Box"
3. Enter Gamertag as the title
4. Put, Enter your Xbox Live Gamertag Here, as your description
5. The rest of the settings are you up to you to decide

Remember to make a note of your Field Number that you have just created.

I put the gamercard under the users Avatar, but your free to place it where you want. Now you need to make one edit to the coding.

Step 2 - Go to postbit_legacy template

Find:

PHP Code:

                                   <vb:if condition="$show['avatar']">
            <a class="postuseravatar" href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw post}}" title="{vb:rawphrase {vb:raw post['onlinestatusphrase']}, {vb:raw post.username}}">
                <img src="{vb:raw post.avatarurl}" alt="{vb:rawphrase xs_avatar, {vb:raw post.username}}" />
            </a>
            </vb:if> 


and after that, add:

PHP Code:

                         <vb:if condition="$post['fieldX']">
            <a class="postuseravatar">
                <iframe src="http://gamercard.xbox.com/{vb:raw post.fieldX}.card" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" height="140" width="204">{vb:raw post.fieldX}</iframe>
            </a>
            </vb:if> 


Now in the code that you have just added, you need to change the 'X' with your Gamertag field number that you created earlier!

Step 3 - Changing the Width of the Postbit

Now the postbit width in default vB4.0 style is smaller than the gamercards actual size. You can edit the width of the post bit area to ensure that the Gamercard fits. To do this:

1. Go to Styles & Templates and select Style Manager.
2. Then select StyleVars for the theme your editing.
3. Find Postbitlegacy-Userinfo-Width.
4. Change the size to 220 and save.

Your finished.

[Gamelobby]

Did something change recently.?
I upgraded to vB 4.2 & it seemed like it was working, but now all i get is an xbox.xom error page.
I see it is still working on your demo, so it must be on my end.

[JamalFree]

Originally Posted by thedarkroom

thank you very much

:up::up::up:

[marccap]

Works in 4.2 and I've coded a ps3 gamer card for 4.2 also which you can view in my site

Screen Capture

[GameOverViper]

Originally Posted by XGC Paravain

Ok I have this working great on profiles its just not working right in the forums

Originally Posted by XGC Paravain

I got the Gamercard showing up in my profile but not my clan forums

From your screenshot that image not showing up is the missing image files for the gamercard plugin. You need to add the coding that I've listed into your postbit to get it to display the gamercard.

Originally Posted by Harpo

Where do I add the code for vertical postbit?

Should be the same place, near the avatar and post count information.

Originally Posted by marccap

Works in 4.2 and I've coded a ps3 gamer card for 4.2 also which you can view in my site

Screen Capture

Thanks for sharing! Feel free to share the code you used for the PlayStation card to show up.

[GameOverViper]

Originally Posted by FTG LIQUID CL

hey americanbang ,how did you get the different usergroups to show up like that in the screen shot you have

That's just the user ranks feature that's built into vbulletin already.

[Gamelobby]

I think this died recently.??
All that pops up now is a small view of the xbox website. Slows the site down big time had to disable.

Anyone else.?

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

I think this died recently.??
All that pops up now is a small view of the xbox website. Slows the site down big time had to disable.

Anyone else.?

Works fine on my site, the server was down a few days ago for a few hours but it works just fine ....