Integration with vBulletin - DJ's Living Avatars User CP/Admin CP "Integration"

PGAmerica released something similar to this a while back for an older version of Living Avatars based on some template modifications I had made in my forum. I figure we were about due for an update and I thought how much easier it might be to have this in the form of a product. Since I had thrown this together for myself last night, I decided I might as well release it right quick for those who need it.


WHAT DOES THIS DO?

This product "integrates" Living Avatars for you and your users. Technically, Living Avatars is already integrated, but a lot of us like to have the controls and admin functions in familiar places. We'd also like it to blend with our forum a little better. This not only makes the Living Avatars Admin Panel accessible from your Admin CP, but also puts the Edit Screen for LA in an iframe where you can then further customize the Theme to make it blend with your forum and skin.


SCREENSHOTS

See screenshots at the bottom of this post.

LIVE DEMO

Login with the username Test and password test to see a live demo. All I ask is that you please refrain from making excessive edits to the avatar, as I don't know what a bunch of you online at the same time making edits to the same avatar might do. Yes, the guy in the dress is hilarious. (Also, please don't use the Test account to try and contact me. That's not what I created it for.)


CREDITS

Credits really go out to everyone here who has directly or indirectly brought me to this point in vB coding.

Also, the script utilizes a dynamically resizing iframe, provided here by the Dynamic Drive website. And before you ask, yes, several of us have asked several times now. We can use their scripts in mods, provided we don't remove the copyright, or try to redistribute the script by itself. Remember that the copyright must stay intact, even on your own personal website.


INSTALLATION

1. Download and Unzip the contents of the ZIP file.
2. Upload the contents of the UPLOAD folder to your forum's root directory. (This is the directory where your vBulletin is physically installed.)
3. Go to Plugins & Products >> Manage Products >> Add/Import Products and import the product-djs_la_usercp_admincp.xml file.
4. Refresh your Admin CP if it doesn't do it automatically and your Living Avatars manager menu should be right below your regular Avatars manager menu. Your users will now have a link in their User CP that takes them to living_avatars.php.
5. If you hadn't already done so, you may now edit the Living Avatar Theme to better match your forum colors. And remember that you now have access to that Theme in your Admin CP.

OTHER OPTIONS

If you activated the "Add Forum Link" option when you first installed Living Avatars (this is the setting within Living Avatars that puts the big image link on the page with your regular avatars) you'll want to edit where those links now point to. Follow the template edit below to change that for each style your forum uses. (Alternatively, you could also go into cPanel on your server and make living_avatars a redirect to living_avatars.php.)

In modifyavatar look for:

<a href="living_avatars/"><img src="living_avatars/includes/images/living_avatars_forum_logo.gif" border="0" /></a>
<div style="padding-top: 10px">
<a href="living_avatars/">Click here to create or update your Living Avatar.</a><br /><br />
The more you post on our forum, the more points you earn! Use these points
to collect items such as clothing to create your own unique avatar!
</div>

Change the code in red to living_avatars.php


TROUBLESHOOTING

Is the User CP link still not showing up? You may need to edit the template directly then. First find out of your running Princeton's GTUserCP - Enhanced USERCP Interface + USERCP Menu. Make whichever template edit below applies to you. (Additionally, there might be a whole bunch of other modifications similar to Princeton's mod. If for any reason a modification you're running changes the template your User CP uses to another set of templates, find the custom set of templates that modification uses and make the edits there. Otherwise, these changes won't show up.)


Typical Template Edit

If you are not using Princeton's Enhanced USER CP interface, simple edit your USERCP_SHELL template. Find:

<tr><td class="thead">$vbphrase[settings_and_options]</td></tr>

Above add:

<tr><td class="thead">$vbphrase[living_avatars_options]</td></tr>
<tr><td class"alt2" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="living_avatars.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[edit_living_avatar]</a></td></tr>

OR


GTUserCP - Enhanced USERCP Interface + USERCP Menu Template Edit

If you are using Princeton's Enhanced USER CP interface, then you need to edit a different template then normal. Look for your GTUserCp Templates group.

In your GTPM_USERCP_SHELL template find:

<tr><td class="thead"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('settings_and_options')"><img id="collapseimg_settings_and_options" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_settings_and_options].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> $vbphrase[settings_and_options]</td></tr>

Above add:

<tr><td class="thead"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('living_avatars_options')"><img id="collapseimg_living_avatars_options" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_living_avatars_options].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> $vbphrase[living_avatars_options]</td></tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_living_avatars_options" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_living_avatars_options]">
<tr><td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="living_avatars.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[edit_living_avatar]</a></td></tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>

[bada_bing]

I have just installed this and I am not getting the menu in my admincp as listed in the directions

Refresh your Admin CP if it doesn't do it automatically and your Living Avatars manager menu should be right below your regular Avatars manager menu.

I have made sure the xml file is in the correct location

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

I have just installed this and I am not getting the menu in my admincp as listed in the directions

Refresh your Admin CP if it doesn't do it automatically and your Living Avatars manager menu should be right below your regular Avatars manager menu.

I have made sure the xml file is in the correct location

Can someone please help me please to how I can get this to show up in my admincp

[bluej]

not showing in ACP, also found that when using the this mod below that the link will not show up in UCP

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...170558&page=18

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Can someone please help me please to how I can get this to show up in my admincp

I don't know why it's not showing in some users ACP. As long as the files are where they are supposed to be, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't. But so far, no one having this problem has allowed me to look at their Admin CP to see if I can track down the problem.

Originally Posted by bluej

not showing in ACP, also found that when using the this mod below that the link will not show up in UCP

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...170558&page=18

Check to see if the modification uses it's own templates in place of default ones. That's the reason why I have two sets of instructions for people using the default templates or the GTUserCP - Enhanced USERCP Interface + USERCP Menu, which is essentially the same thing. You have to make the edits to whatever custom template the modification is using.

[bada_bing]

Im getting frustrated because I have everything installed as noted and not using any of these mods GTUserCP - Enhanced USERCP Interface + USERCP Menu but yet I still cant get the links to showup in admincp ???????

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Im getting frustrated because I have everything installed as noted and not using any of these mods GTUserCP - Enhanced USERCP Interface + USERCP Menu but yet I still cant get the links to showup in admincp ???????

Well, the GTUserCP stuff doesn't have any effect on the Admin CP, so that wouldn't be the problem for anyone, installed or not.

Like I said, if you can give me temp access to your Admin CP and I can try and troubleshoot for you. At least, maybe, I can root out the cause problem. But until then, I can't even hazard a guess.

[choccyclaire]

Hi there

The reason why it does not show up in member's admincp navigation is because there is a slight error in your cpnav_living_avatars.xml file. I have highlighted in purple what needs to be altered to correct this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<navgroups product="djs_la_usercp_admincp">
	<navgroup text="Living Avatars" displayorder="185">
		<navoption displayorder="10">
			<phrase>la_acp_groups_and_items</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/groups_and_items.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="20">
			<phrase>la_acp_install_new_items</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/install_new_items.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="30">
			<phrase>la_acp_settings</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/settings.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="40">
			<phrase>la_acp_theme</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/theme.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="50">
			<phrase>la_acp_admins</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/admins.php</link>
		</navoption>
	</navgroup>
</navgroups>

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by choccyclaire

Hi there

The reason why it does not show up in member's admincp navigation is because there is a slight error in your cpnav_living_avatars.xml file. I have highlighted in purple what needs to be altered to correct this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<navgroups product="djs_la_usercp_admincp">
	<navgroup text="Living Avatars" displayorder="185">
		<navoption displayorder="10">
			<phrase>la_acp_groups_and_items</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/groups_and_items.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="20">
			<phrase>la_acp_install_new_items</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/install_new_items.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="30">
			<phrase>la_acp_settings</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/settings.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="40">
			<phrase>la_acp_theme</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/theme.php</link>
		</navoption>
		<navoption displayorder="50">
			<phrase>la_acp_admins</phrase>
			<link>../living_avatars/admin/admins.php</link>
		</navoption>
	</navgroup>
</navgroups>

Okay, see, this was fixed during the last update and I assumed that it had saved properly before I uploaded. Thank you, choccyclaire. If someone had given me ACP access, I could have tracked this down a long time ago.

[Digital Jedi]

**Update**
This update should correct the Admin CP problem everyone was having. Update your files and re-import the product XML.

[sidew]

when user go to

http://www.site.com/forum/living_avatars.php

its show blank pages only and nothing happens.

whats the problem?