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Member on Facebook? Show other members that you have a Facebook presance by adding a facebook Icon to your postbit"

This is a cool hack which will let your members add a facebook Icon to their Postbit template, They need to add their facebook Profile user ID in their user CPfor this to show, If they don't enter one, then the badge don't show

How to install.

Its really easy to do, as always, so if your sitting comfortably, lets begin

Now we need to create a User Custome field, so.....

AdminCP and add a custom field > User Profile fields > Add New User Profile Field

Title = Facebook user ID

Description = Enter the Number ID from your Facebook User Profile

Default Value = Leave empty

Max length of allowed user input = 12

Display Size = 10

Display Order = 10 or 15

Field Required = No as default

Field Editable by User = Yes in case member wants to delete, Later

Private Field = No

Field Searchable on Members List = No

Show on Members List = Yes

Regular Expression = leave empty

Save the field

Once you've saved you can see what the field number is, So lets say its Field11 for example, Remember this as will need it for your Postbit Edits :up:

Thats the first bit done, now Part Two

Go to the template you are using in Styles & Templates/Style Manager, and select Edit templates.

Go to "postbit templates" and select the template you are using, either postbit or postbit_legacy.

Find the following

<if condition="$post['joindate']"><div class="postbit">$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>

Directly above it add

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6, 7, 9)">
<if condition="$post['field11']">
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php/#/profile.php?id=$post[field11]&ref=profile">
<img alt="My Facebook" border="0" src="http://www.yourforum.com/images/misc/facebook.png" border="0"/>
</if></if>

replace the RED Field attribute for your own

now when members sign up their facebook badge and enter their profile user ID into the "Enter the Number ID from your Facebook User Profile" section in their UserCP, The Badge will automatically appear in their Postbit

Don't forget to change the usergroup condition with the number of the usergroups that you want to be able to view this

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6, 7, 9)">

That means that guests and banned users will not be able to view members facebook profile urls

Members who do not add a user id will not be shown anything.

Next, Upload the facebook icon to your forums/images/misc folder and add the full url to the part in the code which shows the image.

if you are just seeing a red cross on your postbit, then its because your image url is not right

Oh Forgot to say, Badge is fully clickable so members can click directly to facebook


Hope you enjoyed this new hack, and thanks to DobieGillis? for the idea

Please Click Installed and I'll support you 100%

Thanks

[DieselMinded]

Something very crazy !!!!!!

PHP Code:

<!-- Myspace start -->
<if condition="$post[field6]"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/$post[field6]" target="_blank">
<img src="images/misc/myspace.gif" border="0" alt="View Member's MySpace Page" /></a>
</if>
<!-- Myspace end -->
<!-- Facebook start -->
<if condition="$post[field11]"><a href ="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=$post[field11]" target="_blank"><img src ="images/misc/facebook.gif" border="0" alt="View Member's FaceBook Profile" /></a>
</if>
<!-- Facebook end --> 


in post bit

But IE is completely striping out the face book code , ITS NOT EVEN ON THE PAGE SOURCE !

[dilbert]

I believe the Facebook ID is always a number, so you might want to consider using a Regular Expression setting. I added something like this previously for Facebook and LinkedIn and also added them to the memberlist page.
I used this for the Facebook ID: ^[0-9]{5,25}$|^$

[DieselMinded]

i had the field hidden works great thanks

[MaR?]

How can I add link on profile???

[ubcforums]

installed ....working like charm...thanks

[MaR?]

Sorry I dint clik INSTALL, now I did:

How can I add link on profile???

[valdet]

Gerry,

On Profile field in Admin panel, you need to use this regex, to have users enter exactly 10 numbers.

^([0-9]{10})$

Max length of allowed user input isn't the solution for this case, because users may enter less than 10 numbers in that profile field, while Facebook profiles have exactly 10 numbers each, so in some cases facebook profile links may be broken.

Val.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by valdet

Gerry,

On Profile field in Admin panel, you need to use this regex, to have users enter exactly 10 numbers.

^([0-9]{10})$

Max length of allowed user input isn't the solution for this case, because users may enter less than 10 numbers in that profile field, while Facebook profiles have exactly 10 numbers each, so in some cases facebook profile links may be broken.

Val.

Thanks Val

[rrudeboy]

hmz, installed this this morning and if i click on a user's FB icon it directs me to my own FB page...

[Mellymonster]

This is great, and also if you want to do it for Myspace you can use the Myspace image


and the code for that would be a little different not much

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6, 7, 9)">
<if condition="$post['field11']">
<a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=$post[field11]">
<img alt="Myspace" border="0" src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/misc/icon_myspace.gif" border="0"/>
</if></if>