vBFriends - View your social network and surf to others in vBulletin 3

As with vBFOAF, I've just released this mod. (There are no modications needed really, so it's more of an add-on.)

Please note that your buddy list becomes public (to other registered users) with vBFriends, so you will have to notify people of the small change in policy.

Put the attached file in your vbulletin folder, and call with the u=1 parameter, e.g.

http://www.vbulletin.ie/forums/friends.php?u=1

You can surf your social network (similar to orkut), and view connections you have made to others and that others have made to you (similar to FOAF, or as illustrated with plink.org).

Screenshot attached.

The code contains some hardcoded HTML to avoid the use of templates (for now), but it uses standard vB3 CSS classes such as tcat, thead, smallfont, alt1 and alt2 - so should be fine with most styles.

Changelog:

PHP Code:

// 0.1 - 2004-06-23 - First version
// 0.2 - 2004-06-24 - Added missing trailing slash
// 0.3 - 2004-06-28 - Added missing TABLE_PREFIX to tables
// 0.4 - 2004-07-01 - Added functionality for enemies
// 1.0 - 2004-07-21 - No comment
// 1.1 - 2004-09-09 - Added mutual percentage, in and out counts, link and unlink options for own account 


[gmarik]

Looks great - like livejoornal and even better!

[Serph_kun]

Ohhhh!!
excellent!!
Good idea!! ^^
Congratulations!!

[will_lean]

#Fixed
nice hack.

[yinyang]

i'm getting an "Invalid user ID specified. " error. don't know what's wrong, in fact i don't know much about coding in general. any ideas?

[Cloud-Warrior]

For u=1 is it? Try the userid of your own account...

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by Cloud-Warrior

For u=1 is it? Try the userid of your own account...

when you mean try the userid of my own account, does this mean i type something in the friends.PHP file? where would i put it?

[58sniper]

You have to call the file with a value for u. For example, friends.php?u=1 where the value of u is the user ID that you want to see the friends for....

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by 58sniper

You have to call the file with a value for u. For example, friends.php?u=1 where the value of u is the user ID that you want to see the friends for....

tks, i got that. but how do i do that automatically? is there anyway that it can be made a global so if i make the link into a tab, any of my members will get their friends list?

[58sniper]

Originally Posted by yinyang

tks, i got that. but how do i do that automatically? is there anyway that it can be made a global so if i make the link into a tab, any of my members will get their friends list?

I added this to postbit:

<a href="friends.php?u=$post[userid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/friends.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[see_xs_friends]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>

[Lee Wilde]

Originally Posted by D|ver

great hack

but is it possible to integrate this into the normal user profile?

Yes, I've done this. I dissected friends.php.....I took all the code and added it to member.php and I took the html and added it to the end of the MEMBERINFO template (see attached).