vBFriends - View your social network and surf to others in vBulletin 3.5

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
// 1.2 - 2005-11-24 - Updated for the vB 3.5 series 


I have edited my postbit/postbit_legacy template, and linked it from there, e.g. under the reputation part, add in something like:

<a class="smallfont" href="friends.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">Friends</a>

[:Judge:]

Originally Posted by ricker

Negative, same error.

I have the same problem

[ricker]

Originally Posted by :Judge:

I have the same problem

I ended up deleting a bunch of the code within the plugin to get it to do the same thing. It was a bit of trial and error, but it seems to be working allright.

[:Judge:]

Originally Posted by ricker

I ended up deleting a bunch of the code within the plugin to get it to do the same thing. It was a bit of trial and error, but it seems to be working allright.

Would you care to show any of that?

[4number8]

I'm getting the same error, which part of the code did you delete?

[ricker]

Originally Posted by :Judge:

Would you care to show any of that?

You bet! Here is the last section of code I have for the plugin ... it looks like I commented out a couple of lines:

$FRIENDSFOES = "<table class=\"tborder\" cellpadding=\"$stylevar[cellpadding]\"
cellspacing=\"$stylevar[cellspacing]\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "<tr>";
if ($whichlist == "buddylist") { $FRIENDSFOES .= "<td class=\"tcat\" colspan=\"3\">$userinfo[username]s Friends ($inoutcounter) <!--... $mutual% Mutual--></td>"; }
// if ($whichlist == "ignorelist") { $FRIENDSFOES .= "<td class=\"tcat\" colspan=\"2\">$userinfo[username]s Foes ($inoutcounter) <!--... $mutual% Mutual--></td>"; }
$FRIENDSFOES .= "</tr><tr>";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "<td class=\"alt2\" colspan=\"2\">";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "  <table>";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "  <tr>";
$FRIENDSFOES .= $inoutuserlist;
$FRIENDSFOES .= "  </tr>";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "  </table>";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "</td>";
$FRIENDSFOES .= "</tr></table>";

and I actually set up a conditional so that each user can specify in their profile whether or not they want to have their friends shown ...

<if condition="$post[field24] == Yes">
$FRIENDSFOES
</if>

Example: here. If you click on any of my "friends," odds are they haven't activated the profile field yet and their "friends" will be at the default of off.

[C.Birch]

still get the xml error

[Sparky_s]

works grand for me cloud

vB 3.5.2 aswell.

[nexus851]

can anyone make a script where when you add a buddy, it will notify that person thru PM that they added you and you have a choice to add them also...

[silurius]

Originally Posted by nexus851

can anyone make a script where when you add a buddy, it will notify that person thru PM that they added you and you have a choice to add them also...

This is an excellent idea. Shall we start forming a request list just for the heck of it?

[Ragnarok]

Can we have it made it a user selectable option rather than mandatory? :P