custom profile field as textarea / show single profilefield via button

Hi,

this hack is pretty complicate but why not share with you?

With this hack you can choose that custom user profile fields are textareas with or without HTLM, Images, Smiles, VB-Code (like the signature field).

Additionally you may specify a custom image, witch is placed left after the profile button in threads to open a new window with the information of that single user information.

Version: 0.9
VBB-Version: 2.2.4 (I installed it also on 2.2.1 to but the search-strings are a lttle bit different)
Example see attachment in the next post

Tables to change: 2
Files to change: 7
Templates to change: min 1
New templates: 4

Known bugs:
I think I really don't check the maximum text length
Extra Button only appers in normal threads. Not in PM and not in announcements

In advance please excuse the poor supoort I will give.
First, my englisch is so bad that I have to translate many words using a dictionary.
Second, I have more to do than hacking VBB.

PS: If there are errors in this text that leads to misunderstandings a moderator may edit this.

[Dean C]

I believe that it allows you to customize any place where you can input data such as where im typing this reply right now - and it allows you to define whether the user can put html, vbcode and smilies in it

- miSt

[Sadie Frost]

I do have it up on my site, though it's not being used by members yet (still setting up what it's going to be used for).

after-darkness.com

If you look at one of my posts (Vilandra) you will see a button in the postbit in the lower left. If you click on it it pulls up a page with the contents of the profile field on it.

If you install the hack as instructed, it would put that button with the pm, profile etc buttons though.

If you want to see the edit profile part of it,

username: test
pw: test