vBFriends - View your social network and surf to others in vBulletin 3

As with vBFOAF, I've just released this mod. (There are no modications needed really, so it's more of an add-on.)

Please note that your buddy list becomes public (to other registered users) with vBFriends, so you will have to notify people of the small change in policy.

Put the attached file in your vbulletin folder, and call with the u=1 parameter, e.g.

http://www.vbulletin.ie/forums/friends.php?u=1

You can surf your social network (similar to orkut), and view connections you have made to others and that others have made to you (similar to FOAF, or as illustrated with plink.org).

Screenshot attached.

The code contains some hardcoded HTML to avoid the use of templates (for now), but it uses standard vB3 CSS classes such as tcat, thead, smallfont, alt1 and alt2 - so should be fine with most styles.

Changelog:

PHP Code:

// 0.1 - 2004-06-23 - First version
// 0.2 - 2004-06-24 - Added missing trailing slash
// 0.3 - 2004-06-28 - Added missing TABLE_PREFIX to tables
// 0.4 - 2004-07-01 - Added functionality for enemies
// 1.0 - 2004-07-21 - No comment
// 1.1 - 2004-09-09 - Added mutual percentage, in and out counts, link and unlink options for own account 


[Cold Steel]

Can you give a larger screenshot?

[Lee Wilde]

Originally Posted by Cold Steel

Can you give a larger screenshot?

Oops sorry....I've just uploaded a larger image.

[Cold Steel]

Thanks, much appreciated.

Since you have it in the profile, have you used the separate file at all?

[Lee Wilde]

Originally Posted by Cold Steel

Thanks, much appreciated.

Since you have it in the profile, have you used the separate file at all?

Well I don't think I have any need to link to friends.php on its own but I'll keep it just in case.

This is an excellent feature, especially for a networking site like mine....when I eventually launch it.

[Cloud-Warrior]

Originally Posted by Lee Wilde

This is an excellent feature, especially for a networking site like mine....when I eventually launch it.

Thanks Lee - looks good.

I've updated the file with a slight change - adding do=ignorelist to the URL changes it from showing Friends to Enemies

[Lee Wilde]

This is a really cool hack Cloud-Warrior, thank you for your generosity in sharing it.

Someone has asked me to clarify what I've done to my member.php so I'm attaching a copy of an un-hacked member.php with the vbfriends code included. Search for "vBFriends 0.1 - John Breslin and Jon Hanna".

[Cloud-Warrior]

Moved to Full Releases - thanks Logician.

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Lee Wilde

This is a really cool hack Cloud-Warrior, thank you for your generosity in sharing it.

Someone has asked me to clarify what I've done to my member.php so I'm attaching a copy of an un-hacked member.php with the vbfriends code included. Search for "vBFriends 0.1 - John Breslin and Jon Hanna".

Lee, you can't post full vb files...I would instead document the changes made to member.php.

[Darkwolf]

Could you add-on a feature to allow user to write testimonals for this user... after being added as friend..

and how do i add a "friend" button on the navbar template ?

[Ghostsuit]

Originally Posted by Lee Wilde

This is a really cool hack Cloud-Warrior, thank you for your generosity in sharing it.

Someone has asked me to clarify what I've done to my member.php so I'm attaching a copy of an un-hacked member.php with the vbfriends code included. Search for "vBFriends 0.1 - John Breslin and Jon Hanna".

Yeah could you quote the changes you made, since you can't attach the actual file?