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)

[jj]

Originally Posted by Trana

This seems to be a great hack, but for a lot of my members the profile page shows up as blank, so I am guessing that there is something in the code that fails when a certain variable is empty.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this or how to fix it?

Thanks.

I heard some people saying in this thread, that this isn't working for > 3.6.3 and I'm really sorry that I cannot try to get it running in > 3.6.0 (see post above)

[Cocko]

Originally Posted by Cocko

seems to be a great hack.
till now i couldn't test.

anyone working on version for 3.6 ?

this is running in vb 3.6.4
Friends and/or Buddies on Profile

[dead7]

First off I want to say thank you for everyones work on this hack, we've been molding this and the myspace layout for our site and so far its perfect!

I do have one question and please excuse me if it were touched on earlier in this thread but in the 16 pages I went through there wasn't much about them.

DONE 1.) I see in the examples how you are all using the user profiled field to select if you want your friends visible or not to the general public. My question is how do I craft an <if condition> that checks if someone is or isn't on someones buddy list? I want the if statement to basically check that if someone viewing another persons profile isn't on their buddy list than this would disallow them from viewing the friends (or whatever else I put within that if statement to not show them).

I'm fairly good with the if conditions I just never actually tried checking buddy lists like that. This is similar to how you would show one thing to members but not guests.. only my situation is if someone is actively on someone elses buddy list. I believe VB has default options for this for private messaging and pager where you can optionally select if people aren't on your buddy list they cannot PM or Pager you.


2.) I tried this a few times in the plugin using some postbit snippets for online status and that is getting an online status under the persons name/avatar in the friends list. If you're on MySpace you know that in a friends list it will say (Online!) under their picture in your friends list. I'd like to try to get that going also.


EDIT - I copied $post[onlinestatus] or $userinfo[onlinestatus] and it "kind of" works when its in the plugin code.. problem is its using the onlinestatus of the profile you're viewing, not the individual friends in the list. So its kind of there.. any other help someone can give?

EDIT 2 - Only friends/buddies can view profile was figured out.



Thank you so much for any help or direction you can point me to resolve a these little things. Other than that, well done guys you're doin great!

[rockmyway5]

I installed the hack but it doesnt show avatars.
I am not sure if the avatar is saved in file system or not.
I have attached a pic for that.
But yes , path of avatars show up like images/avatars/somethign.gif , so i feel it must be file based , so how do i have that to database based?
also the [+] and [-] doesnt show up to me. I have all options set up well in vb options (confirmed by seeing other people screeshot in this thread.)
I browsed all 16 pages and I also tried searching this forum on how to do that but couldnt find help.
please help.

[nikki712]

Does anyone know how to remove friends from a member's profile?

[jj]

Originally Posted by nikki712

Does anyone know how to remove friends from a member's profile?

Delete the buddy?

[Ipuck]

It works in my vb 3.6.7

[marlena]

Hello I installed this and it is showing an incorrect number of buddies on the users profile page. It will say (for example) Friends (4) on the profile, but when in the user cp the buddy list shows the accurate number of users on the buddy list, in this instance 12. How do I correct this?

[marlena]

Bump hoping for a response...

[Triky]

Installed. I've just added border="1" to the avatars..