Profile Enhancements - Friends and/or Buddies on Profile

WHAT's THIS

• This product adds a public friends and/or buddy list in the profile.
• What are friends? Friends means you are on each others buddylists. It is no seperate addition/addon. It's all based on vb's buddy system.
• Need more info? Look at the attached screenshots, or the live demo(s).
• Avatars/profilepics will not show up, if stored in filesystem!
• Need some kind of informing the users, which have been added to a buddy list? Look at the AutoPM after addBuddy Plugin by Antivirus
• The product adds 2 queries to the profile page

INSTALLATION


Install with product manager.


Set your preferences in the acp (vBulletin options)


Add

PHP Code:

$FNB_HTML 


somewhere in your MEMBERINFO template. Whereever you'd like to show up the friends or buddies. If you're not sure what to do, search for

<if condition="$show['signature']">

in your MEMBERINFO template and add it before that line.


OPTIONAL (User selectable)


If you want to have this user-selectable you need to add a custom profile field. Create the new field as a radiobutton, give it a name and description of your choice, the options yes and no and use the following code instead of only $FNB_HTML:

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldXX] == yes">$FNB_HTML</if>

(if user wishes to show up)
or

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldXX] != no">$FNB_HTML</if>

(show by default, user can deactivate it)

Remember to replace XX with the number of the new profilefield!


TODO

• Looking into avatar/profilepicture display/detection
• Online status of friends/buddies
• ?SEO compatibility?

LIVE DEMO(S)

• http://www.myrabbits.de/forum/member.php?u=35&styleid=1

CREDITS


Thx to Cloud-Warrior for inspiration and idea. If you want a seperate friends page, too, get the vBFriends extension by Cloud-Warrior.

vwturbo (for the idea of gettin profilepics instead of avatars),
gamebgs (limitting shown friends/buddies to a max number),
D|ver (hiding the information who you got in your buddy list and whohas added you to his buddy list),
yayvb (show a "no avatar" picture if no avatar is available),
ThorstenA (see changelog version 1.0.2)

[MistaMarkael]

go away...

[ABeautifulBrown]

Originally Posted by MistaMarkael

go away...

you're lucky I like you, Markael :P

[jj]

Originally Posted by ABeautifulBrown

I have 3.6.5. I have the mod installed but I don't see the avatars. My images are stored in my database. Here's my profile

http://www.sofreshforums.com/member.php?u=1

I cannot find this plugin there

Originally Posted by Snake

It has been released finally.

We will order our update extension then

Originally Posted by Lars-Christian

I thought I'd just confirm that this is running fine on 3.6.5 - As you can see here.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by darkblade25

How can I get $FNB_HTML to display in the homepage of the UserCP. Can someone please either post or PM me.

That's not possible at the moment. Someone requested this already on the older thread (the one for 3.5.x).

[jj]

Originally Posted by MistaMarkael

go away...

[jj]

Originally Posted by stonner

Great Hack!

Is it possible to set that the admin is by default a friend of every new user?

Thank you!

Oh my... nearly forgot to reply to you

No that isn't possible at the moment. I'll have a look into it.

[akulion]

wow i really like ur profile look

is that a mod for making it look like this?

Can u tell me whic one?

thanks

[jj]

It's no mod. It's just a reworked template. I've sent you the code.

Regards
Jens

[mescalin]

i liked the mod thanks...

but i need to know if i can resize avatars or profile pic with constant proportions cuz some pics gets ugly when resized.. how can i do that?

[jj]

Only set width OR height to a specific value

[mescalin]

ups.. thank you for the hint..