vBFriends - View your social network and surf to others in vBulletin 3.5

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
// 1.2 - 2005-11-24 - Updated for the vB 3.5 series 


I have edited my postbit/postbit_legacy template, and linked it from there, e.g. under the reputation part, add in something like:

<a class="smallfont" href="friends.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">Friends</a>

[vwturbo]

Is it possible to display the profile pictures instead of the avatar's in the buddy list?

[Antivirus]

yeah, you should be able to do it by replacing all instances of $userinfo[avatarurl] with $userinfo[profilepicurl] within the XML file.

[iizeusii]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

yeah, you should be able to do it by replacing all instances of $userinfo[avatarurl] with $userinfo[profilepicurl] within the XML file.

I need the opposite : /

How can I get the friends.php to show User Avatar instead of Profile Image?
(not buddies, but the User)

[vwturbo]

Originally Posted by iizeusii

I need the opposite : /

How can I get the friends.php to show User Avatar instead of Profile Image?
(not buddies, but the User)

My default install of vBFriends used the avatar.

[vwturbo]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

yeah, you should be able to do it by replacing all instances of $userinfo[avatarurl] with $userinfo[profilepicurl] within the XML file.

That doesn't work. All that does is replace the profile pic with the avatar pic.

[Antivirus]

iizeusii,
i think it has to do with the following l conditional in the code:

if (empty($userinfo[profilepicdateline])) {
$HTML .= "<img width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"$userinfo[avatarurl]\"><br>";
}
else {
$HTML .= "<img src=\"".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/image.php?u=$userinfo[userid]&amp;type=profile&amp;dateline=$userinfo[profilepicdateline]\"><br>";
	}

The code was written (quite brilliantly) to show the user's profile picture, UNLESS that user has none, then it will show the user's avatar. If you want it to always show the avatar, regardless of whether or not the user has a profile pic, then find the code above within friends.php and replace it with the following which is simply commenting out the conditional and leaving only what you want:

// if (empty($userinfo[profilepicdateline])) {
$HTML .= "<img width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"$userinfo[avatarurl]\"><br>";
// }
// else {
// $HTML .= "<img src=\"".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/image.php?u=$userinfo[userid]&amp;type=profile&amp;dateline=$userinfo[profilepicdateline]\"><br>";
	// }

[Antivirus]

wwturbo,

How can I get the friends.php to show User Avatar instead of Profile Image?

isn't that what you asked for?

[vwturbo]

I asked for the buddy list to display the Profile picture. When I installed vbfriends by default it shows the avatar. I replaced avatarurl with profilepicurl and that didn't work at all.

[docvader]

I'm getting this error, using the original friends.xml file

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /member.php(651) : eval()'d code on line 212

Otherwise, it's working. I think.

http://russbo.org/vb/member.php?u=1&styleid=41

Any ideas?

Thanks!
rich

[jj]

Here we go with a little enhancement. I added a setup part into the code, so you don't need to search the text in the hard coded html. I also removed the foe part because I don't think someone wants to show these in his profile. You can choose if you want to use avatares or profilepics for the friends part (see attached images). The plugin still only shows friends. If you want to have the buddies only you have to edit it again to your needs.

Maybe I should start a new thread for this in the vB 3.5 plugin forum if I get permission from you, Cloud-Warrior, since it's basically your code a bit optimized

Heres the setup part of it

// Setup
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$FFsetup = Array(

// these are the texts which are displayed

'friends' => "Freunde",
'has_these_users_on_his_list' => "Buddy-Liste",
'is_on_these_buddy_lists' => $userinfo['username']." ist auf den Buddy-Listen von",

// set these to TRUE or FALSE
// if you set fetch_avatar true you will get avatar picture, else you get profile picture if present

'show_counts' => false,
'fetch_avatar' => true

);

// End of setup
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

You see i commented a bit.

I hope it works for you, as it works for me. I'm using 3.5.3

EDIT: For those who haven't used it before I need to mention it again: Place

$FRIENDSFOES

in the MEMBERINFO template wherever you want to display this.

Current XML file -> post #85

cheers
Jens