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]

altsounds: Basically with the User CP you want it to look like the addon for the profile addon? I can do that for you. As for vBulletins buddies system I know there isn't a checking system. I havn't worked on fixing this since it's quite a bit of work for me. I'll see what I can come up with.

Anyway with the whole checking issue, what is the system to check anyway? I mean it already checks a few things like if your on the ignore list, if you add yourself, etc. Like I know it will keep sending pm each time a user removes and adds them to their list but thats how it all works.

[T3MEDIA]

any chance on that random user code?

[SS9267547]

On your search section?

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

Yes see I did wanted to get the pm system to work so you can get "Approved" or what not and added to the list automatically but I couldn't figure out a way to get it to work without to much editing to the whole vbulletin buddy system, to much work for me to spend so much time on, need to the rest of my site you know hehe. So I just many it send a "added" to pm instead, short cut lol.

couldnt a simple conditional work? If you are a buddy Dont sent the PM. If your not and the user just added you print the accept PM.

or that would be very intensive?

[Benj]

SS9267547 could i ask for one last lil addon! just wanted a bit of code for register.php so that all new sign ups are automatically added to my list and im added to theres cant have members with more buddies than me my user id is "1" hence being the admin

nice one

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

On your search section?

yes SIR!

[SS9267547]

benj: Well thats a bit odd addon, I guess if it isn't to hard I'll give it a try lol. Perhaps you can just have your name typed in the referred name automatically? lol

T3MEDIA: I'll PM you about that search request.

[altsounds]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

benj: Well thats a bit odd addon, I guess if it isn't to hard I'll give it a try lol. Perhaps you can just have your name typed in the referred name automatically? lol

T3MEDIA: I'll PM you about that search request.

I was just coming here to request the same thing!!! I think adding the admin as an automaic buddy is a very good way to show users who the main point of contact on the site is.

I would love to have this feature too.

[altsounds]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

altsounds: Basically with the User CP you want it to look like the addon for the profile addon? I can do that for you. As for vBulletins buddies system I know there isn't a checking system. I havn't worked on fixing this since it's quite a bit of work for me. I'll see what I can come up with.

Anyway with the whole checking issue, what is the system to check anyway? I mean it already checks a few things like if your on the ignore list, if you add yourself, etc. Like I know it will keep sending pm each time a user removes and adds them to their list but thats how it all works.

Yep i would like it to be exactly as it is with the profile but to have sepearate options in the control panel, to control how many rows etc for the buddy list view in the User CP. The profile one is already random so just figuring out what to add to the usercp.php file would be all you would need to do (I think ).

As far as the checking goes for the buddy lists. I think your missing the problem. If you request to add me I get sent a PM. Well in order for your buddy system to work, you need to add me and I need to add you for us to be buddies. So I follow the link in the e-mail to add you as a buddy. Now you receive a PM from me saying I have requested to be added as your buddy and this could potentially go on and on forever and get very annoying.

All you would need to check was before sending the PM, to see if the user the PM is going to is already added (non reciprocal). If so, then the script would add that user to my buddy list too but would bypass the PM feature. Thats pretty much all it would need to do in theory to work. However, I am crap at coding so am looking for your expertise as to how this could be implemented.

You have an amazing hack here, which if all these requests get implemented will be a VERY used hack be everyone as it makes the whole buddy portion of vbulletin MUCH MUCH better.

Thanks and I look forward to your reply.

[KTBleeding]

Originally Posted by altsounds

I was just coming here to request the same thing!!! I think adding the admin as an automaic buddy is a very good way to show users who the main point of contact on the site is.

I would love to have this feature too.

And I was going to request it a few days ago. Haha.