XBL GamerCard Button (Appears just like IM buttons)

Everyone loves Xbox Live . Anyhow, there are a few other ways to get the gamertag into the postbit templates but wow does that look ugly!

So I figured "wouldn't it be cool if it looked like the Skype logos?" With that said I looked around and did a lot of fooling around on my test board. This is the end result:

XBL GamerCard as a IM button esque thing

1 - Step one - Create a user profile field (Admin CP => User Profile Fields => Add New

Single Line Text Box
Title: Xbox Live GamerTag
Description: Enter your Xbox Live GamerTag
Show on Member List: On
Field Searchable on Members List: On
The rest of the values are yours to mess in if you want to

2 - Take note of the field value (mine is field9)

3 - Time to edit your template (postbit/postbit_legacy) The path to do so from the Admin CP panel is : Admin CP => Styles and Templates => Template Manager => (Select 'Edit Templates' in the drop down menu for the template you wish to edit => Press [? ?] beside 'Postbit Templates' => [Customize] either 'postbit' or 'postbit_legacy'

Find:

    <td align="center">$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</td>

Replace with:

<td align="center">$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]<!-- Xbox Live Icon by Bluestrike2 of the MLGPwnCast.com -->
<if condition="$post[field5]"><a id="gamertagmenu_$post[postid]" href="#" title="View Xbox Live! profile for $post[musername]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xbl.gif" border="0" /></a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("gamertagmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script><div class="vbmenu_popup" id="gamertagmenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none"><iframe src="http://gamercard.xbox.com/$post[field5].card" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" height="140" width="204">$post[field5]</iframe> </div> </if>
<!-- /Xbox Live Icon by Bluestrike2 of the MLGPwnCast.com --></td>

Do NOT forget to change 'field5' to whatever field yours is. The image goes in your style's misc. folder.

That's all folk!

Credit: Stonyarc's thread here for inspiration.

Because of my Mac's TextEdit difficulties (isn't compatible for some reason but has been in the past ) I've attached the logo and a PDF of these instructions.

[Zachariah]

Great going guys / gals !
- hey Bluestrike2, edit the 1st post and add a check to "Additional files" (the gif upload)

[G0F0RBR0KE]

Good one guys. Once this hack is fully completed. Just simply PM me or i'll recheck it later on.

[Bluestrike2]

Forgot to do so. Anyhow, its pretty much complete it seems. While we *could* probably find a way to code the rollover effect in, it seems like it would be a PiTA. Does anyone have suggestions on how to implement that?

Zachariah - forgot to click it . Oops!

[kr?mel]

In my forum at the User Fukuhara (http://kuruboard.de/vB/member.php?u=70) comes no xboxlive icon in the postbit =(

help mee!! ^^

[Afterlifer82]

Could someone please post revised instructions on how to get this working in 3.53, I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Noonster]

Originally Posted by Afterlifer82

Could someone please post revised instructions on how to get this working in 3.53, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I would also appreciate this...

Thanks

[Noonster]

No worried I have sorted it now...

Also noticed that if you have usernames with different colours that the code "Breath" posted what work!!! However to get it working you need to change:

[musername] to [username]

Here is all the code incase you are unsure as to what I mean!!

				<!-- Xbox Live Icon by Bluestrike2 of the MLGPwnCast.com -->
<if condition="$post[field11]"><a id="gamertagmenu_$post[postid]" href="#" title="View Xbox Live! profile for $post[username]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xbl.gif" border="0" /></a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("gamertagmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script><div class="vbmenu_popup" id="gamertagmenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none"><iframe src="http://gamercard.xbox.com/$post[field11].card" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" height="140" width="204">$post[field11]</iframe> </div> </if>
<!-- /Xbox Live Icon by Bluestrike2 of the MLGPwnCast.com -->

Cheers
Daz

[Afterlifer82]

Noonster thank you very much, you literally saved a man's sanity today.

[Bluestrike2]

I've got it up and running on 3.5.3 here.

What's not working specifically?

Kruemel - can you send me a link to a post with it - where its not showing up? That's to the profile. While I see not reason why it WOULDN'T work on the profile - I'm just curious as to what's not showing up. Did you upload the image to the proper directory and make sure that the link in the code points there?

Don't forget to click 'install' .

[A17roolz]

i get stuck here
Time to edit your template (postbit/postbit_legacy)

what file are you talking about? i am using 3.5.4

also why is the image 21 by 21 and not 23 by 23 like the other [msn, yahoo, etc] images are?