vBBuddies

During the development of my gaming site I was in the need of a hack that would display the buddies list publicly and I found one that I thought would work well for my needs called vBFriends. However I also found that it was in need of additional features to work more for what I needed it for so I modified this hack. Now with the permission of Cloud-Warrior (John Breslin) I?ve decided to release this little hack to anyone else who might find this useful called vBBuddies.

vBBuddies is similar to vBFriends however instead of showing all the members links (linked from, linked to, etc), vBBuddies simply displays all the members buddies only. Buddies that are of course linked back to the member. So for example a member named ?Bob? added a member named ?John? to his buddy list but ?John? didn?t add ?Bob? to his list. Now if that is the case, when looking at either ?Bobs? or ?Johns? public buddy lists you won?t see their names on there. However if both members add each others names to their buddy lists it will then classify that they are true buddies and put them on the list. Hope that makes sense. That?s pretty well what this little hack does.

In addition to the change above, I?ve noticed that there were two main features lacking from vBFriends that members have noted as well I needed done which was more optimized queries, templates and the option for multi paged system. So I?ve added those to this hack, I just hope that I was able to lower the queries down, think at this moment its at 10 total. Anyway enjoy the hack, hope someone else can find this useful.

There are 8 screenshots included for you to see what this little hack can do. :nervous: Now this isn't the greatest coded hack so I'm sure there are bugs. Please do let me know if there are problems with it and I'll try to find the problem if I have then time to do so. Also if you like the hack make sure hit the install button! Enjoy guys!

vBBuddies Information

Current Version Number: 1.0.3
vBulletin Test Version(s): 3.0.7 +
Queries to run: 1
File Edits: 8
New Phrases: 28
New Templates: 6
Template Edits: 4
Last Edited: June 12, 2005
Edited By: Lucas Pawelczyk
Install Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Moderate

Current Features

1. Option to activate or disable public buddy list globally.
2. Option for user to activate or disable public buddy list.
3. Give permissions to whatever usergroup you want to be able to access this.
4. Option for maximum number of members you would like to display per line.
5. Option for maximum number of members to be displayed per page.
6. Ability to have buddy tool menu to add or remove a member to your buddy list.
7. Option to activate or disable private message notification of new buddy.
8. Ability to view buddy links via member profile.
9. Ability to activate or disable online status display option, avatars display option, user title display option, posts display option, birthday display option, age display option, join date display option and last active display option from admincp.
10. Ability to display information text about feature with members.
11. Option to activate or disable buddy indicator from memberslist.

Donations Welcome
lucas@gamitopia.com

Addons

Addon # 1 (Usercp basic addon):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=53

Addon # 2 (Profile advanced addon):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=73

[SS9267547]

benj: With the avatars it would depend on how you have set up your forums so it will use the avatars at whatever size it is setup at. With mine they are all set to be the same size 56 by 56. Now as a quick fix for you to have it limited on your buddies.php I would edit the template 'buddies_listbit'.

Find the following code:

PHP Code:

<img src="$avatarurl" alt="$inuser[username] Avatar" border="0" /> 


Change to the following code:

PHP Code:

<img src="$avatarurl" width="56" height="56" alt="$inuser[username] Avatar" border="0" /> 


I set it up as the same size as I have it with my site. If you want them to be bigger change '56' in the width and height to whatever size you want your avatars to be.

[Benj]

cheers

[Selene]

good to see the Version 1.0.2 update.
Ability to display information text about feature with members. <-- that shud be coool.

plus a common buddies page which every member can visit for general info about vBBuddies...so that one can have vBBuddies as menu item

[SS9267547]

I don't know about having common buddies page, don't think I'll add it. Ah I could maybe add an faq option to explain it if really needed if the display information text isn't what people need.

[Polo]

how is this modification going for big forums? I would like to know.. not that my website is that big, but i'm just curious...

[SS9267547]

What do you mean? Like performance wise?

[Polo]

yeah performance wise and query wise... i remember some people having problems with vbfriends... specially those who had big forums... it looks really nice now and it seems like it was totally rewritten... I have it installed in my site now .. great job...

*related posts to what i'm talking about...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=54
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=62

[SS9267547]

Well I think performance and query wise are pretty good with vbbuddies. Its like 10 queries in total now so it doesn't matter if you have 5 or 50 members showing per page while vbfriends will change depending on how many members you have displayed. And if you want to lighten the load of buddies displayed the scriipt comes with buddies per page feature so you can show only 10 per page if you wanted to. I tried to fix the problems that were in vbfriends.

[Polo]

that is good to hear, and again this is an excellent mod ss9267547 thanks for sharing it with the community...

[MikaK]

I´m working on a version 303. Do you think this would work with it if installed?

-Mika