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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

[COBRAws]

Is there a way so people can input their facebook IDor their screen name? Remember that now with FB you can have your own profile URL like: facebook.com/cobraws

I mean, Like a conditional field or something, you can enter the numerical ID or just the screen name ID.

Cya!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by greenbuildpost

I noticed when I set it up to use the vanity names you must include "?ref=nf" after you fill your vanity name in the user details field.

Is there a way around this so you can just enter your vanity name?

You figured this out see below and nice job

Originally Posted by taffy056

Been playing around with this trying to get it to work in VB 4.0, obviously it needs to be recoded as it doesn't work, anyway its a cool little hack and would love to have it on my forum again.

Thanks

Send me a PM, I will update this but you cannot re-release it I want to wait for UKBL to re-release for 4.0 and he's busy in real life atm.

There are some others FB mods out for 4.0 some similar some different sorta check them out and or look for more

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228610
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229686

Originally Posted by greenbuildpost

For now I just added "?ref=nf" into the address on the style manager template and it seems to be working with only adding the custom Facebook URL in the details field.

Originally Posted by GTX2

Great mod !!

I just think my forum members won't find easy to find the facebook member number (most don't understand this kind of stuff).
Is there any way of associate their email with their member number, in order to fill out that field automatically?
Maybe i'm asking for something impossible

When you create the profile field in admincp... the "Description area" allows you to enter in html so you can take a screenshot then use:

<br />
<img src="htttp://www.yoursite.com/yourimage.jpg" style="border-style: none"/>

With an image and the number or vanity named circled in red ahh be creative and they will see an image along with your instrcutions on how to find it .

Originally Posted by COBRAws

Is there a way so people can input their facebook IDor their screen name? Remember that now with FB you can have your own profile URL like: facebook.com/cobraws

I mean, Like a conditional field or something, you can enter the numerical ID or just the screen name ID.

Cya!

Do what greenbuildpost did by tinkering with the codes and check your url's of friends who have and have not done this to see how to change the code

Mike

[bayXzor]

thank you..

[taffy056]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Send me a PM, I will update this but you cannot re-release it I want to wait for UKBL to re-release for 4.0 and he's busy in real life atm.
Mike

That's great Mike, only just seen your post about this, sent you a PM in regards to it, thank you very much :up: its very kind of you

[Miss Chatterbox]

Installed! Excellent idea! Thank you! :up:

[greenbuildpost]

Originally Posted by greenbuildpost

For now I just added "?ref=nf" into the address on the style manager template and it seems to be working with only adding the custom Facebook URL in the details field.

I had this uninstalled from my forum for a while and just reinstalled it today. Now for some reason I don't need the "?ref=nf" for it to work.

[SVTOA]

It appears that the

</a>

is missing from the link??

Nice mod, members love it.

[ramires]

nice mod, thanks

[biggeorge]

The install instructions in the zip are different from what is posted in the description.

I moved the link to the bottom where the rest of the social icons are... just made it flow better. I also added target="_blank"

Thanks!

[kuervo]

no cant modify :S help me!