User's Favourite Quote in Postbit...

This hack will add the User's favourite Quote in the Postbit...

Download the attached file for the Instructions, or see below :

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Step A)

Create a new User Profile Field (in your Admin CP). For myself, I created a new field with these properties, in order from top to bottom:

"Favourite Quote"
"Enter your Favourite Quote"
Max Input - 250
Field Length - 25
Display Order - 2
No
No
Yes

Step B)

You need to determine the field id of your new field. If you've never before added a custom profile field, this should be 5. When you hover over the "Edit" link when you go to "Modify" in your Custom profile Field section, a link should appear at the bottom left of the page. It will look something like :

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/admin/profile.php?s=&modify&fieldid=7

The last number, in this case "7", is the field id.

Step C)

Open the file: admin/functions.php

Find this:

PHP Code:

        if ($post[aim]!="") {
            eval("\$post[aimicon] = \"".gettemplate("aim")."\";");
        } else {
            $post[aim]="";
        } 


And add below :

PHP Code:

            if ($post[field5]) {
                  $favquote="$post[field5]<br>";
            } else {
                  $favquote="";
            } 


(Note : You will need to change the number (5) in the $post[field] brackets to the number that you found out in Step B)

Step D)

Edit the postbit template.

You can put $favquote anywhere in the postbit template that you want. Make sure, however, that there is a <br> before it, but not after it.

Step E)

Upload the functions.php file to your admin directory

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Satan

[Massiel]

I just added the <b> </b> tags, hope that is okay!

[Chris M]

You can yes...

Or, you can simply do it via the Template, if you make that field Required...

Satan

[SgtSling]

i wish this worked in version 3.0

[Erwin]

You can do this without hacking. Just make a new custom profile, get the profile id from the URL by putting your mouse over the edit link, and then put $bbuserinfo[fieldxx] anywhere in your postbit template (replace xx with the profile id).

[Areku]

How can I "move" the favquote variable or even the $whatevervariableis[fieldnumba] to the getinfo template instead of the postbit so its displayed on user profile view instead of postbit?

What I mean is, ok, once i see a user profile, fav quote appears along with all the rest of user profile fields, but I want to move it out of there and write it on screen on another spot... is that possible?