vBBuddies

During the development of my gaming site I was in the need of a hack that would display the buddies list publicly and I found one that I thought would work well for my needs called vBFriends. However I also found that it was in need of additional features to work more for what I needed it for so I modified this hack. Now with the permission of Cloud-Warrior (John Breslin) I?ve decided to release this little hack to anyone else who might find this useful called vBBuddies.

vBBuddies is similar to vBFriends however instead of showing all the members links (linked from, linked to, etc), vBBuddies simply displays all the members buddies only. Buddies that are of course linked back to the member. So for example a member named ?Bob? added a member named ?John? to his buddy list but ?John? didn?t add ?Bob? to his list. Now if that is the case, when looking at either ?Bobs? or ?Johns? public buddy lists you won?t see their names on there. However if both members add each others names to their buddy lists it will then classify that they are true buddies and put them on the list. Hope that makes sense. That?s pretty well what this little hack does.

In addition to the change above, I?ve noticed that there were two main features lacking from vBFriends that members have noted as well I needed done which was more optimized queries, templates and the option for multi paged system. So I?ve added those to this hack, I just hope that I was able to lower the queries down, think at this moment its at 10 total. Anyway enjoy the hack, hope someone else can find this useful.

There are 8 screenshots included for you to see what this little hack can do. :nervous: Now this isn't the greatest coded hack so I'm sure there are bugs. Please do let me know if there are problems with it and I'll try to find the problem if I have then time to do so. Also if you like the hack make sure hit the install button! Enjoy guys!

vBBuddies Information

Current Version Number: 1.0.3
vBulletin Test Version(s): 3.0.7 +
Queries to run: 1
File Edits: 8
New Phrases: 28
New Templates: 6
Template Edits: 4
Last Edited: June 12, 2005
Edited By: Lucas Pawelczyk
Install Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Moderate

Current Features

1. Option to activate or disable public buddy list globally.
2. Option for user to activate or disable public buddy list.
3. Give permissions to whatever usergroup you want to be able to access this.
4. Option for maximum number of members you would like to display per line.
5. Option for maximum number of members to be displayed per page.
6. Ability to have buddy tool menu to add or remove a member to your buddy list.
7. Option to activate or disable private message notification of new buddy.
8. Ability to view buddy links via member profile.
9. Ability to activate or disable online status display option, avatars display option, user title display option, posts display option, birthday display option, age display option, join date display option and last active display option from admincp.
10. Ability to display information text about feature with members.
11. Option to activate or disable buddy indicator from memberslist.

Donations Welcome
lucas@gamitopia.com

Addons

Addon # 1 (Usercp basic addon):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=53

Addon # 2 (Profile advanced addon):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=73

[SS9267547]

Lionel the install script is almost the same, the only differance is those pharses I meantioned. So if you need them just take out the "//" that is infront of them.

[Lionel]

thanks. I will uninstall completely and reinstall from scratch.

[brendanlim]

Got it all installed but having one minor problem with mine. I attatched a picture to show you guys what I'm talking about.

If I have someone added to my list ... and I view my own list and choose the Buddy Options menu, it is BLANK. But it properly shows "Add Budy ...." when I am viewing someone else's list that is not on my buddy list. Hopefully that made sense ....

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Lionel]

in memberlist, should both templates have the same code:

<!-- Start vBBuddies -->
<if condition="$vboptions['buddieslist_activebuddyindicator']"><td class="alt1" width="16">$buddyicon</td></if>
<!-- End vBBuddies -->

[SS9267547]

brendanlim: Did you just install with the new install? If so I think I know what the problem is which is with the phrases, go into the install and find the where all the phrases are and remove "// from infront of the following...

• add_x_to_ignore_list
• add_x_to_buddy_list
• remove_x_from_your_buddylist
• remove_x_from_your_ignorelist

The upload the install and run the install part for the phrases or you can add them manually if you wish. Let me know if this is the problem.

Lionel: Ah I think it should have been in there only once. Check for me be removing one of them. I think one is in there by mistake, most likly I have it in the table header which should be there but instead of "$buddyicon" there should be a space. Let me know.

[Lionel]

only once. I simply made the second one as non breaking space &nbsp;

[SS9267547]

Okay I thought that was it, thanks. Okay I'll have to chnage that in the next update.

[Lionel]

I do have a strange issue with the profile addon. All birthyear show the same ...

[altsounds]

Any way to make it so unregistered users can see the profile addon??

[SS9267547]

Well you can try two things in the memberinfo template. One remove the following code.

PHP Code:

AND $userinfo['buddiesliststatus'] 


If that doesn't work try taking out the whole if statment.

PHP Code:

<if condition="$vboptions['buddieslist_profileactive'] AND $vboptions['buddieslist_active'] AND $userinfo['buddiesliststatus']"> 


Remember if you remove the if statment remove "</if>" at the end as well.