New hack: Advance Profile Page

[assassingod]

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Advance Profile Page
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==Original hack idea & feature idea credits: hellsatan

==Features

• Select which user's can use APP (Advance Profile Page)
  
• Minimum posts to use APP
  
• Flash Avatars
  
• User Picture
  
• Longer Biography
  
• User Comments (hellsatans suggestion)
  
• Upload Desktop Image
  
• User Rating
  
• User Defined Welcome Message (hellsatans suggestion)
  
• vBNotePad (hellsatans suggestion)

==Description
APP allows your users to add a little bit more to their profile, but depending on whether you think they deserve it or earned it. You can choose which features appear on APP via the Admin CP. There are 9 features, equaling to 9 queries. So for each feature enabled, it adds a query.

==Description of featurs

• Flash Avatars - Allow a user to use flash formatted avatars
  
• User Picture - Allow a user to upload a picture of them (Limited size)
  
• Longer Biography - A much longer textarea to add much more detail to their bio. (Limited size)
  
• User Comments - Allow other users to add comments to this user
  
• Upload Desktop Image - Allow a user to upload their desktop image (dimensions allowed: 800x600, 1024x768)
  
• User Rating - Allow other users to rate this user
  
• User Defined Welcome Message - Allow a user to change the pre-defined welcome message on forum home
  
• vBNotePad - Much like FireFly's vBPad

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hellsatan came up with the original idea and is making one private version for his board.

Basically I want some feedback on the this hack idea and what you you think would be good to add

[filburt1]

Remember use of Flash allows ActionScript (AFAIK similar to Javascript) and can introduce the same XSS problems as with enabling HTML.

[assassingod]

Right, ok, thanks. I have a rethink of Flash Avatar.

Thanks nibbler

[N9ne]

This sounds promising , too bad it's too close to vB3's release, make it for vB3 instead . I've put all my hacking on hold until then.

[assassingod]

Thanks. But i'm still doing it for vB2

But defintly do it for vB3 shortley afterwards.

[N9ne]

If Lesane and g-force2k2 still aren't around for vB3, I'll probably release my version(s) of the Warning Hack and Store Hack, but that's IF I can be bothered and most likely I won't...

[assassingod]

Cool I'll be releasing all my hacks again for vB3.

Anyways, back with the hack - You got any ideas that would be useful?

[N9ne]

A journal-blow type thing where the user can post up entries would be cool.

a "other notes" section for the user to put any miscellaneous content could be useful.

I can't think of anything else at the moment...I'll reply again if I think of something...

[assassingod]

Good ideas. Thanks

[N9ne]

I suppose you could have more fields like favourite food, favourite x, favourite y, favourite z, you know, a more in depth profile, so you know more about this user...

Another would be favourite quote...

And favourite post/thread...

Also, fields which are empty/not used's tables should not be shown etc.