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

[Selene]

ok SS i fixed it

its working fine now.

i jus cut some of the ### lines and it worked.

[Selene]

LOL i fixed it as u were replying

now its working good so far, just a buddy page which shows some info about it will be gr8 now like u have on ur site.

[SS9267547]

Lol

Ah with the info for the buddy page, I'll think of what might be the best way of doing it. Might have time to post something up later today.

[Selene]

oky cool thx , i will wait for that, and maybe for a future update u can add the following where it says the info under nick...

Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 48

Real name: Lucas Pawelczyk
Location: Canada

there u can add a field maybe called Current Buddies: xx (where xx it the nr of buddies one has)

[SS9267547]

Thanks for the ideas, I'll see if I can add those additional options into the system in the next release. Didn't think anyone would like those features since its just a list of buddies but guess I was wrong hehe.

[Polo]

look really nice, thanks SS

[Benj]

wooooo this hack is sweet *installs*

[Benj]

im getting a

Benj, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

message onthe buddies.php file why might this be

[SS9267547]

Polo: Thanks.

Benj: vBBuddies comes with permission options, you just forgot to do a step in the install. What you need to do is go to Usergroup Manager in your ADMINCP and change each group that you want to be able to use this under 'General Permissions'. There should be an option called 'Can View User Buddies List'. Simply select 'Yes' to be able to use this. Hope that helps.

[Benj]

ta sorry must have missed that :P hahahaha nice one.. i was woundering my users have large avatars how would i down scale them ?? or does it already do it ?? do i need to edit the template if so whichone ???