Profile Enhancements - Postbit Social Network Icons

This is a quick template modification that works with the "User Profile Fields" and adds a social network icon for; Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and YouTube. Once Completed you will see this:
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This will not work in the postbit_legacy. Use this for postbit_legacy template: HERE

Step 1: Create your User Profile Fields

Make Custom Profile Fields for each of the four social networks; Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Youtube.

ACP> User Profile Fields> Add New User Profile Field

Profile Field Type: Single-Line Textbox

Create your profile fields as below. you can leave "default value" blank.

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Make one of these for each of the social networks. Once you have created your fields for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and YouTube.

Continue to Step 2

Step 2: Locate the Correct Field Names

ACP> User Profile Fields> User Profile Field Manager

Take note of your "field name". Below you will find a screen shot; notice I have labeled the field names A - D. for refrence a = twitter; b = facebook; c = google+; d = youtube

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Continue to Step 3

Step 3: Adding the code

ACP> Styles & Templates> [Your Style]> Edit Templates> Postbit Templates > Postbit

Find:

{vb:raw post.skypeicon}

Add After:

<!-- Social Networking -->
<!-- Twitter -->
<vb:if condition="$post['A']">
            <a href="http://twitter.com/{vb:raw post.A}" alt="Twitter" TARGET="_blank"><img src="./images/site_icons/socialpopup/twitter.png" /></a>
</vb:if>
<!-- Facebook -->
<vb:if condition="$post['B']">
            <a href="http://facebook.com/{vb:raw post.B}" alt="Facebook" TARGET="_blank"><img src="./images/site_icons/socialpopup/facebook.png" /></a>
</vb:if>
<!-- Google+ -->
<vb:if condition="$post['C']">
             <a href="http://plus.google.com/{vb:raw post.C}" alt="Google+" TARGET="_blank"><img src="./images/site_icons/socialpopup/googleplus.png" /></a>
</vb:if>
<!-- YouTube -->
<vb:if condition="$post['D']">
            <a href="http://youtube.com/{vb:raw post.D}" alt="Youtube" TARGET="_blank"><img src="./images/site_icons/socialpopup/youtube.png" /></a>
</vb:if>
<!-- #Social Networking -->

CHANGE THE RED LETTERS above or this will NOT work!

Step 4: Images!!!

Upload the extracted zip to your forum root.

Step 5: Enjoy!

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[stoute]

uploaded "approved" twitter logo

[clutchthese]

All these images are broken...

[ramesh_umk3]

pls update your images

[datoneer]

Thanks man! It is great! Installed and nominated v 4.2.1

[tevbas]

please fix it tutorial images.

[tme_power]

Just try, look pretty good, changed css a bit.

[ukhostz]

Just to clarify for people who are not 100% code savvy, change the abcd to the field number as stated in the "User Profile Field Manager" e.g. field6, field7, field8, field9.
So if your twitter profile was say field 6 then it should be changed to the example below

<vb:if condition="$post['field6']">
            <a href="http://twitter.com/{vb:raw post.field6}" alt="Twitter" TARGET="_blank"><img src="images/site_icons/socialpopup/twitter.png" /></a>
</vb:if>

Hope this helps

[tme_power]

Originally Posted by ukhostz

Just to clarify for people who are not 100% code savvy, change the abcd to the field number as stated in the "User Profile Field Manager" e.g. field6, field7, field8, field9.
So if your twitter profile was say field 6 then it should be changed to the example below

<vb:if condition="$post['field6']">
            <a href="http://twitter.com/{vb:raw post.field6}" alt="Twitter" TARGET="_blank"><img src="images/site_icons/socialpopup/twitter.png" /></a>
</vb:if>

Hope this helps

Thank you man.