Direct Link to User's ACP Profile in Postbit for Admins

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Direct Link to User's ACP Profile in Postbit for Admins
~ A hack by N9ne // March 18th 2003
~ Copyright N9ne 2003+
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What does this hack do?
~ It adds a link in the postbit to only administrators.
~ Upon clicking the link, you are taken directly to the
user's profile, in the adminCP.
~ This hack was created for convenience.
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What do i need to do to install this hack?
~ 3 file modifications [admin/functions.php and showthread.php]
~ One template modification [postbit]
~ Add one template [postbit_useradmin]
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Screenshot in next post!

[N9ne]

Today at 08:57 PM filburt1 said this in Post #10



No, it just makes messy HTML.

I'm not sure what you mean by when using phpinclude, it will create messy html, what do you mean by 'messy' html?

[filburt1]

My way would be to create variables that contain HTML comments and put them to the left and right of the HTML for the link, but the variables will be empty for usergroupids 5, 6, and 7 (smods, admins, and mods).

[N9ne]

Oh I see now, quite messy...

[Erwin]

Today at 08:16 AM filburt1 said this in Post #12
My way would be to create variables that contain HTML comments and put them to the left and right of the HTML for the link, but the variables will be empty for usergroupids 5, 6, and 7 (smods, admins, and mods).

How would you get the $post[userid] variable using phpinclude? You can't do it. You need to use functions.php in any case.

[filburt1]

No, something like this (using PAPI because I'm lazy):

PHP Code:

if (thisis("showthread.php"))
{
    if (!userisingroup("5,6,7"))
    {
        $prelink = "<!--";
        $postlink = "-->";
    }
    else unset($prelink, $postlink);
} 


Then in the postbit:

$prelink <a href="...">...</a> $postlink

Like I said, messy but it works.

[N9ne]

Bah, stick with modifying files here, that's too unclean for my liking, + phpinclude modifying just isn't my thing

[Overgrow]

All this complaining

It's a good hack. I've had it on my site for a long time and it is a big time saver.

[Boofo]

Just a thought. I noticed you don't have

target="_blank"

at the end of the link. I put that in mine when I did this a while back so all I had to do was close the window after an edit to get back to the post I came from instead of having to go through about 4 or 5 screens to get back to the post.

[N9ne]

Today at 07:24 AM Boofo said this in Post #18
Just a thought. I noticed you don't have

target="_blank"

at the end of the link. I put that in mine when I did this a while back so all I had to do was close the window after an edit to get back to the post I came from instead of having to go through about 4 or 5 screens to get back to the post.

Yup, that can be done, a lot of things can be done with the link, which is why I put it in its own template .

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

Nice Idea.. don't have to click on the Profile anymore to see the administration link! I will install this!
/me clicks on install