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

[altsounds]

Hate to sound really dumb here but how do I know in the PHP file where to paste the code. You say paste the code where it starts displaying the results. How do we know where that is?

[SS9267547]

Ah I can't say I don't have the files with me. Look for thing like this in the files. Just any example.

PHP Code:

while ($users = $DB_site->fetch_array($user))
{ 


After that you can post the online / offline code or anything else that needs to fetch from the $user database. I don't know I make any sense lol.

[altsounds]

Nah it doesn't work . Also, how hard would it be to use your buddies file to check permissions?? I.e. I have the Profile Web Page and Comments hack installed on my user profiles. I would love it if when someone tried to leave a comment it would check to see if they were a buddy first otherwise give an error message.

There is already some kind of error checking ovolved with it because it check that the user is logged in before they can leave a comment.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks

[Polo]

Got version 1.0.2 working on a vbulletin 3.0.7! The Buddies system looks great SS9267547! Congratulations and thank you.

[Cheertobi]

Hi,

just installed this hack, with addon 2 and found out that all birthdays have the same year at the "random buddies" block!

Does anyone have the same issue and how can I fix this?

Regards,

Tobi

[T3MEDIA]

awsome hack and thank you for the extra time you put in.

Very nice person indeed.

[T3MEDIA]

At the moment this shows banned buddies... how can I make it so this blocks or restricts any buddies that are on the banned list.

This hack is so incorporated into my site it isnt even funny anymore lol!

[altsounds]

Any way to make this so that the buddy request pm sent is not from the main admin account but from the actual user making the buddy request?? Would be cool if when you open your mail you could see who sent the buddy request as opposed to having admin showing up everywhere.

Let me know

[Benj]

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ']' in /home/benj/public_html/admincp/options.php on line 116

how do i fix this cant remember

[altsounds]

Remove the ']' from line 116.