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)

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by jj

As I use

$vbulletin->options['bburl']

for the links, you should be able to change this in your ACP under the vb setting "Homepage title / URL...". I don't really know the excact english description for it, because our vb is a german one.

Thanks so much, that was easy

[Dsyn11]

For some reason, even though I set the width and height to 0/0 it still shows up 32x32. I want actual size, not a fixed size. Why is it not updating?

[jj]

Originally Posted by Dsyn11

For some reason, even though I set the width and height to 0/0 it still shows up 32x32. I want actual size, not a fixed size. Why is it not updating?

Hello, I cannot recreate the error on my version. Are you sure you set both entries to 0? Have you tried reinstalling the product by allowing overwrite?

[Dsyn11]

reinstalling did the trick! Great hack!

[thumbsucker]

I added this and the Separate Friends Page product and it works great.

On the separate friends page though, if the user does not have a profile pic, I get a broken link image.

Any way to show a "No profile pic" gif or something of that sort instead?

Also noticed a BUG where a blank page is displayed if I try to go to a Separate Friends Page of a user when browsing as a GUEST. Shouldn't a "You must be a registered user to view this page." and login area show up instead?

[wild5tylez]

i did what the intall said but how come the buddy list only shows up and not the friendz. can anyone help??? here is the screenshot..

[jj]

Originally Posted by wild5tylez

i did what the intall said but how come the buddy list only shows up and not the friendz. can anyone help??? here is the screenshot..

The friends list only shows up if you got some. Make sure one of your buddies has added you to his buddylist, too.

[jj]

Originally Posted by thumbsucker

On the separate friends page though, if the user does not have a profile pic, I get a broken link image.

Any way to show a "No profile pic" gif or something of that sort instead?

Also noticed a BUG where a blank page is displayed if I try to go to a Separate Friends Page of a user when browsing as a GUEST. Shouldn't a "You must be a registered user to view this page." and login area show up instead?

Well seems I have to correct some things there. I'll do as soon I get some time and send the update to Cloud-Warrior.

[wild5tylez]

Originally Posted by jj

The friends list only shows up if you got some. Make sure one of your buddies has added you to his buddylist, too.

haha ya you were right i was trippin this whole time.. thanks for the help..

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by vprp

is there any way to set it so that when someone registers, the admin of the forum is automatically on the new members friends list?

If a new user signs up and fills in the referrer field how about automatically adding that person to the friends list?

This is a FANTSTIC mod!! Thank you!!