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.

[bigsbydapicka]

I have installed both MODs and have the drop down working great however the info does not show up in the profile view in the bottom right quadrant? The problem seems to be related to the data being linked to the correct box. If members have not added info that normally appears in the profile view in the additional Info area then both quadrants show "N/A".

Any ideas? I followed your instructions to the letter.

http://aquariafreaks.com/VB/index.php

[Wired1]

tested fine for me, there's got to be a typo or missing code.

[bigsbydapicka]

Got it. Somehow one of the plugins was not active. Nice hack and works Great!

Cheers!

[marlita]

Originally Posted by Wired1

Arach:
I'll have to look into it when I get back later next week, but I believe vB's template format will prevent it, as there's no way to code it. If so, I may have to recode the whole thing to get around both limitations. It wasn't designed for loooooooooooong strings, mainly just for easy access to information that could be relevant in any post, for example, computer rigs.

alluidh:
WTF? First guess would be that you've got a typo in the dropdown code, although I haven't attempted to replicate the issue yet. Don't recall having an issue with the test bed though. I'll attempt to replicate it when I get back. Please hit INSTALL.

I have the exact same issue as alluidh! Was there any success with getting it to work properly?? Right now my board probably thinks I'm crazy because of how it looks, so any help on this would be greatly appreciated, especially since I'd rather have the mod working than not have it at all.

Thanks.

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by Aligator21

I did exactly what you said in the instructions, but there is no pulldown menu show up in my forum
I use postbit_legacy and the changes i made them into postbit_legacy insteed of postbit

any help? (see a thread of my forum)

Attachment 52800

Works fine. Force refresh your page, and clear your cache.

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by marlita

I have the exact same issue as alluidh! Was there any success with getting it to work properly?? Right now my board probably thinks I'm crazy because of how it looks, so any help on this would be greatly appreciated, especially since I'd rather have the mod working than not have it at all.

Not yet. I believe it's got something to do with how that field is stored, and from that I'd surmise that a DB query could fix it, although I'd rather not add any queries if at all possible. Perhaps a modification of a query though.

[marlita]

:ermm: is there an eta on the fix? i appreciate you working on it. thank you.

also, i'm wondering how to get certain fields to show up on one panel vs another. i created two new panels on my profile, rather than swapping out the subscribed groups list. now i'd like some of the options from the new edit stats page that i created to appear on one side and some others on the other side. i just don't know how to do it. they all show up on both sides now unless i change $customfields2 to $customfields3, which gives me nothing on one panel. i just can't figure out how to assign those fields to $customfields3.

also, i've set some of the fields to show up on the member list and made them searchable, but they're not coming up. will you login my site with username test, password test and let me know? thank you.

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by marlita

:ermm: is there an eta on the fix? i appreciate you working on it. thank you.

also, i'm wondering how to get certain fields to show up on one panel vs another. i created two new panels on my profile, rather than swapping out the subscribed groups list. now i'd like some of the options from the new edit stats page that i created to appear on one side and some others on the other side. i just don't know how to do it. they all show up on both sides now unless i change $customfields2 to $customfields3, which gives me nothing on one panel. i just can't figure out how to assign those fields to $customfields3.

also, i've set some of the fields to show up on the member list and made them searchable, but they're not coming up. will you login my site with username test, password test and let me know? thank you.

FYI your dropdown for the UserCP is missing a link to Edit Investment Stats.

Ok, so if I have this straight, you've got one page, and you'd like to take some of the fields and have them on the left, and some others, and have them on the right?

[marlita]

lol yes! i would. and i noticed that too (about the missing link), but i'm afraid to try to fix b/c I don't want to mess it up. Actually, whatever I did when I went in there, if you look carefully, made the missing link & the edit password link, i think it was, just shrink (you can see the double lines, and if you get your mouse in there, you can actually click on it and it will take you to the edit password/email link. *shrug* lol.
btw, thanks for you help.

[Wired1]

I don't think it would be too hard, just rambling here (to remind me later), but IIRC it'd just be a matter of marking the fields differently, having the edit page show the edit areas for both marks, and then have the quadrants filter them out. I'll look into the code tomorrow, just spent a while updating my own forum to vB 3.6.0, yaaaaaayyyyyy. Now to re-do all the hacks for it!