Show Thread Enhancements - Profile Fields in a Postbit Dropdown

If you use this mod please hit INSTALL!

This is an evolution of my Additional Section within Profile and Dropdown within Posts mod from 3.6.x.

If you have a pre-3.7.x version installed:
UNINSTALL the old product and reverse the edits. Don't forget to revert those templates

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With this mod you can allow profile fields to show up in a dropdown below a user's name and user's title under each post. There are two ways to use this product, and each has its own plugin (and template): Dropdown - Manual (enabled by default), and Dropdown - Automated (disabled by default).

NOTE: The dropdown's title shows up as [username]'s [dropdown_title]. Yes, the 's is hardcoded into the mod. If you'd like this not to be hard coded, simply mention it after hitting install, and if enough of the users want it, I'll change it. Figured if I didn't hardcode it, someone wouldn't figure out how to add it

To edit the title:

Go to AdminCP -> Languages & Phrases -> Search in Phrases. Search for the phrase's title: [dropdown_title] (no brackets). Edit and save!

The dropdown is dependent on Profile Field 5 being filled. If the user does not have this profile field filled out, then the dropdown will not show. To edit or remove this restriction:

Go to the Dropdown Call Template. Find and edit, or remove these 2 lines of code (so that the dropdown will always show):

<if condition="$post['field5']">
...
</if>

The Plugin "Dropdown - Manual" is just like the 3.6.x version, all manual edits, but now they're in a template. No more files to manually edit Some examples of how to do this are already provided within the template.

Go to AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> [STYLE NAME]
Edit Style: Dropdown Information - Manual


To use the automated dropdown, DISABLE Plugin "Dropdown - Manual" and ENABLE Plugin "Dropdown - Automated". Simple!

"Dropdown - Automated" will automatically create the dropdown for ALL custom fields (it will skip the first 4 default ones).


To sum it up:
Plugin: Dropdown - Manual
PRO: You select which fields, what descriptions, and in what order you want the fields to show up.
CON: Lots of typing


Plugin: Dropdown - Automatic
PRO: Automatic!
CON: no real control, Profile fields 5 and up will show up in order. NOTE: if it is a HIDDEN profile field, apparently only the DATA is hidden, not the field name, so the field name will show up as well. To block a profile field from showing up in the Automatic Dropdown, check out this post.


Version History:
3.0.0 - Initial Release
3.0.1 - Added plugin to cache templates, courtesy of ssslippy.


If you use this mod please hit INSTALL!

[Wired1]

MarkoXaser, KHALIK: You're welcome!

Originally Posted by neologan

btw, i looked on your forum and in your profile, the system specs link is the last one, how would i get it to be after say, the "about me" tab?

Wrong mod! Please post in the appropriate thread so that all of the users of it can benefit from the Q & A.

Originally Posted by ComputerVitals

Awsome!! you get and A+ for that one.

Thanks, but you get a C-, you should be using my Extra Profile Fields Page so you don't have to tell your users to "Scroll to about the middle of the page, in the Thread Display Options", just to enter in system specs. Make it easy for them Of course, if you use that, then you'll want my Add-on for it, my Extra Profile Fields Tab, so that you can see their system specs in their profile (and not under the About Me tab).

[ComputerVitals]

Wired1 - I'll check that out, It would be a lot easier.

Jase2 - Wow. Bit touchy arent you.. I thought I'd be nice incase someone wanted to see a working example. If it bothers you that much, PM a mod or the admin and have them edit the post and remove the link.

Originally Posted by Wired1

Thanks, but you get a C-, you should be using my Extra Profile Fields Page so you don't have to tell your users to "Scroll to about the middle of the page, in the Thread Display Options", just to enter in system specs. Make it easy for them Of course, if you use that, then you'll want my Add-on for it, my Extra Profile Fields Tab, so that you can see their system specs in their profile (and not under the About Me tab).

Got them installed and edited.
Looks real nice now. The specs are easily changed and have the tab in the profile.

Thanks for all your work on this!



1 more question.
Is there a way to allow so we could use the dropdown then click on a selection as a link?

[odeezie]

Awesome Awesome mod Wired! Thank You so much!!

Can I make this mod only show up in the user's postbit if they have info entered in the profile fileds? So the ones who do not want to fill anything in will not have a dropdown box?

Thanks again!! :up:

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by ComputerVitals

Is there a way to allow so we could use the dropdown then click on a selection as a link?

Need more info. Do you mean you want a user to be able to enter in a URL as a profile field? Or do you want a specific profile field to always be a link to the same thing, and the user would just be entering in the link's title?

Originally Posted by odeezie

Can I make this mod only show up in the user's postbit if they have info entered in the profile fileds? So the ones who do not want to fill anything in will not have a dropdown box?

It's in the instructions up top, but I've clarified it a bit since you've read it, so I'll copy it down here again:

The dropdown is dependent on Profile Field 5 being filled. If the user does not have this profile field filled out, then the dropdown will not show. To edit or remove this restriction:

Go to the Dropdown Call Template. Find and edit, or remove these 2 lines of code (so that the dropdown will always show):

<if condition="$post['field5']">
...
</if>

[ComputerVitals]

Need more info. Do you mean you want a user to be able to enter in a URL as a profile field? Or do you want a specific profile field to always be a link to the same thing, and the user would just be entering in the link's title?

So the user could put in different links into the fields.

Example:
When you click the dropdown.
Brand name /Motherboard: Toshiba
CPU: Intel P4 2.6

Where the user put in Toshiba, If the user wanted to link that to a certain website they could enter a URL then you could click on the "Toshiba" and be brought to a link like the model number of the Computer. Then they could also enter a different link for the "Intel P4" to link directly to the intel P4 site.

Thats All I think is missing. If it could be added easily or perhaps a future upgrade that would really top this product off.

Other than that. I think it's awsome.

[Wired1]

I wouldn't recommend allowing users to enter in URLs, as it SCREAMS "Abuse Me!" to idiots and spammers.

Ultimately, you'd need 2 places to enter in data for each line: One for the URL, one for the text. Assuming you'd use profile fields for both of them, you'd have to do something like this:

EDIT TEMPLATE: Dropdown Information - Manual

Find the fieldID that you want to have a link.

EXAMPLE: CHANGE:

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option">Motherboard: $post[fieldY]</td></tr>

TO:

<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href=$post[fieldX]>Motherboard: $post[fieldY]</a></td></tr>

Where fieldX = the profile field ID that contains the URL, and fieldY = the profile field ID that contains the text.

You can use some if statements to clean it up in various ways depending on what you want to do, but that's the gist of it.

[odeezie]

Thank you for clarifying that.

[ComputerVitals]

Thanks Wired1 for that. I tweaked the code you listed a bit.

I added the another "if", so if the user doesn't put in a url it doesn't allow a click in the dropdown. Without that, and no url it allows a click and a error 404.

I'm loving this. Thanks for the direction on the linking.

[dtv100]

this don't work for me my postbit have custom codes any way I can do this manually i mean insert codes in my posbit so it show ?

thanks

[Wired1]

Originally Posted by dtv100

this don't work for me my postbit have custom codes any way I can do this manually i mean insert codes in my posbit so it show ?

As long as you haven't removed the hooks manually, it should work. If you want to do it with purely manual edits, follow the instructions in the 3.6.x version.