Friends and/or Buddies on Profile

WHAT's THIS

• This product adds a public friends and/or buddy list in the profile.
• What are friends? Friends means you are on each others buddylists. It is no seperate addition/addon. It's all based on vb's buddy system.
• Need more info? Look at the attached screenshots, or the live demo(s).
• Avatars/profilepics will not show up, if stored in filesystem!
• Need some kind of informing the users, which have been added to a buddy list? Look at the AutoPM after addBuddy Plugin by Antivirus
• The product adds 2 queries to the profile page

INSTALLATION


Install with product manager.


Set your preferences in the acp (vBulletin options)


Add

PHP Code:

$FNB_HTML 


somewhere in your MEMBERINFO template. Whereever you'd like to show up the friends or buddies. If you're not sure what to do, search for

<if condition="$show['signature']">

in your MEMBERINFO template and add it before that line.


OPTIONAL (User selectable)


If you want to have this user-selectable you need to add a custom profile field. Create the new field as a radiobutton, give it a name and description of your choice, the options yes and no and use the following code instead of only $FNB_HTML:

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldXX] == yes">$FNB_HTML</if>

(if user wishes to show up)
or

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldXX] != no">$FNB_HTML</if>

(show by default, user can deactivate it)

Remember to replace XX with the number of the new profilefield!


PLANNED FEATURES

• Using Templates

LIVE DEMO(S)

• http://www.myrabbits.de/forum/member.php?u=35&styleid=1

CREDITS


Thx to Cloud-Warrior for inspiration and idea. If you want a seperate friends page, too, get the vBFriends extension by Cloud-Warrior.

vwturbo (for the idea of gettin profilepics instead of avatars),
gamebgs (limitting shown friends/buddies to a max number),
D|ver (hiding the information who you got in your buddy list and whohas added you to his buddy list),
yayvb (show a "no avatar" picture if no avatar is available),
ThorstenA (see changelog version 1.0.2)

[vbreal]

if the plugin is working fine. what's the benifits of uninstalling and installing the product.

[jj]

Originally Posted by Real Talk

if the plugin is working fine. what's the benifits of uninstalling and installing the product.

If you ever want to change some setup settings, you can do that in the acp now, or if you run a multilingual forum, you can set up the translations for it with the vb phrase system. If you don't need this, then you can move on with the plugin.

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by j.jacobsen

If you ever want to change some setup settings, you can do that in the acp now, or if you run a multilingual forum, you can set up the translations for it with the vb phrase system. If you don't need this, then you can move on with the plugin.

ah thats cool, but for now I guess it's now really worth it as there isn't any new features

I don't understand why it wouldn't work with profile pics if it works with avatars though...

anyways, good luck with them, hope it all works out!

[jj]

Originally Posted by The Chief

I don't understand why it wouldn't work with profile pics if it works with avatars though...

Because the profilepics are called with a php script which returns the pic or a transparent gif with 1x1 pixels. I have found no way to determine if a profilepic is present or not because of that. The avatar location is stored in the database. That's why it will work with avatars.

[gavinzac]

Originally Posted by j.jacobsen

Because the profilepics are called with a php script which returns the pic or a transparent gif with 1x1 pixels. I have found no way to determine if a profilepic is present or not because of that. The avatar location is stored in the database. That's why it will work with avatars.

can you get it to check the size of the image? and make it so that if the profile pic is too small its ignored or replaced with a "no user profile pic" or whatever.

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by j.jacobsen

Because the profilepics are called with a php script which returns the pic or a transparent gif with 1x1 pixels. I have found no way to determine if a profilepic is present or not because of that. The avatar location is stored in the database. That's why it will work with avatars.

oh ok, thanks jj

[mchaos]

I can't figure out how to change the colors of links in it, without changing the style of the site. color somes up white and turn yellow on hover. how can I customize it?

[ChuckH]

I switched to the product and it works great, but how do I change the settings now?

[mchaos]

so is it customary to ignore ppl asking questions?? wtf

[vbreal]

Originally Posted by j.jacobsen

If you ever want to change some setup settings, you can do that in the acp now, or if you run a multilingual forum, you can set up the translations for it with the vb phrase system. If you don't need this, then you can move on with the plugin.

thanks for the response
i understand now