Profile Enhancements - Additional Section within Profile and Dropdown within Posts

NOTE: After checking out the vBulletin 3.7 First Look thread, which contains significant changes to the Member Profile page, it is clear that this mod as-is will probably not work properly when it comes to displaying the Extra Profile Info on that page. As soon as an official 3.7 comes out, I'll start working on the changes.

The 3.5.x version of this hack can be found here.

This hack builds upon my Extra Profile Fields Page hack. This template mod lets you take the extra fields from that hack and places them within a dropdown that sits below the user's title within each post, as well as replaces the Group Memberships area with a listing of only these specs. The EPFP hack is basically the entry form for the data that's manipulated in this hack. Please check out the pics at the EPFP hack link to get the full idea.

In my case, it is used for PC specs (and as you will see the instructions are tailored towards this), however it can be easily used for parts or specifications of almost anything (car parts for example).

An example is shown here:
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=39826

Example of user profile with specs:
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/member.php?userid=15


# of plugin hooks: 1
# of php page edits: 1 (just 1 line to add the custom hook line into member.php)
# of template edits: 3
# of phrase edits: 1

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Don't forget to hit INSTALL!

Support will only be given to people who have hit install.

Also, please post where you've installed this, as I'd like to see how people are using it. Or if guests can't see the effects, then please post a pic.

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by Arachnophiles

Hi, did you have any joy in getting the field entries to display vertically rather than horizontally ??

My guess as to why it happens was dead on. It's stored as a single string with \r\n for character returns. Problem is, vB strips them before I can get access to them. I know of one way to get around it, BUT... it involves recoding the whole hack and creating a new table in the database just for these fields. A little excessive IMHO.

hrm....

[Bad Bunny]

GREAT WORK! Your two profile mods are great. I really appreciate it. I made a dumb mistake and started feeling real dumb, but it was just I forgot to save a file before uploading it. lol

I'll have screenshots soon.

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by Bad Bunny

GREAT WORK! Your two profile mods are great. I really appreciate it. I made a dumb mistake and started feeling real dumb, but it was just I forgot to save a file before uploading it. lol

I'll have screenshots soon.

Glad to hear

[Arachnophiles]

Originally Posted by Wired1

My guess as to why it happens was dead on. It's stored as a single string with \r\n for character returns. Problem is, vB strips them before I can get access to them. I know of one way to get around it, BUT... it involves recoding the whole hack and creating a new table in the database just for these fields. A little excessive IMHO.

hrm....

Fair enough. Is there perhaps a way to specify a maximum width for the 'drop down', after which the text continues onto a new line ?

Cheers,
Adam.

[alluidh]

Hi Wired1
First I had to tank you for this hack, but I got a little problem
I want to use Checkboxes for the hardware (Picture 1)
In Profil everything works fine (Picture 2)
But in Dropdown there it is wrong (Picture 3)
Are you able to help?
Thanks a lot, Mike

[Wired1]

Arach:
I'll have to look into it when I get back later next week, but I believe vB's template format will prevent it, as there's no way to code it. If so, I may have to recode the whole thing to get around both limitations. It wasn't designed for loooooooooooong strings, mainly just for easy access to information that could be relevant in any post, for example, computer rigs.

alluidh:
WTF? First guess would be that you've got a typo in the dropdown code, although I haven't attempted to replicate the issue yet. Don't recall having an issue with the test bed though. I'll attempt to replicate it when I get back. Please hit INSTALL.

[Snake]

Wired, how do I remove the bold effect for the "N/A" phrase in profile view page?

[Snake]

Nevermind. :P

[Chriss74]

Nice Hack!

I submit following proposal: It would be nice, if a pictures could be placed in a user-field. This pic should be loaded via AJAX when the dropdown-info is opened. That would be a nice upgrade of this hack.

Greetings,
Chriss

[Wired1]

This hack won't work on 3.0.1 though

That would require a different hack.