Profile Enhancements - Friendster style hyperlinked profile fields

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[Mobo]

Okay, I just check to see if I had advanced searching enabled, and I did. So all fields are searchable and my users are allowed to search, but I'm still not getting any link

Thanks for all the help man!

[klassicd]

Error:

There is a problem when the field that you want to search by is a list/menu drop down box. Instead of searching by the name of the field you need to search by the value (usually 0,1,2,3,4,etc...). Can this be fixed?

[Cham911]

Has anyone worked with this hack enough to get it to use the $key values foro multiple boxes etc?

If nobody has it already, I will do it in a few days, but I don't want to learn that part of it unless I have to

[sabret00the]

what's the server load like?

[Roxie]

I added some things to my profile after this hack was added, but what I added did not become links. hmmm.

[Roxie]

Well, this hack screwed up the post per day count.

[Roxie]

Did anyone else's polls and post per day count mess up after installing this?

[buro9]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

what's the server load like?

The server load isn't affected as this is merely a split and join of a string to an array and back to a string.

There is no disk I/O, no database reads or writes... it's pure CPU work within the current PHP thread. And if you have a performance optimiser installed such as mmcache, then even with thousands of users doing this simultaneously you're not going to see a difference.

It uses all existing vBulletin code, simply does a whip through the string and creates links out of them.

The only side effect at all is increased HTML in the member profile page... but that doesn't count either, as if you're gzip'ing output... the repeated URL text would be compressed to very little indeed.

Server load is neglible to non-existant.

[buro9]

Originally Posted by Roxie

I added some things to my profile after this hack was added, but what I added did not become links. hmmm.

Sorry for not replying sooner... was on holiday in Barcelona.

The fields will only be searchable and therefore linkable if you permit users to search those fields already and have granted the advanced search permission to the usergroup.

Note that this hack cannot affect your post counts... it doesn't touch them! It's very small and just affects the display of a small piece of HTML on the member profile page and nowhere else... so another hack must've broken those for you.

If your post counts are out, you should update counters in your admin control panel.

[Roxie]

Thanks.
It seems as if decimal points have been removed. The post counts are fine. It's the average per day. Instead of 3.96 posts per day it says 396. And for the polls, instead of 17.00% it says 1700%. I didn't notice this until I added this hack, but I'll guess I'll go through and look at everything.