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)

[elmati]

installed!

thx a lot

[tamborinegal]

Originally Posted by ant0nio

My only suggestion to improve this hack would be to add a pagination to the buddy list so, that when someone has 2000 friends it doesn't take forever to load a profile. Also, online status for each buddy would be great.

Originally Posted by jj

Yes, these are great additions and I'm going to implement them

Hi jj,

I love the sound of the hack, but I'm a little wary of installing it until the pagination system is working as I know what my members are like. They'll be adding lots of buddies to their profiles... Any idea when you might implement the paginated buddy list?

Thanks

Clancy

[jj]

Hi tamborinegal and all the others,

currently I am working on the next version of my product. As you can see the demo link now shows a pagination and you can browse to the second page of my friends there. Actually the script needs some more tweaking/enhancements.

Best of it: It does not interfere with another pagination on the same page (like our user guestbook) - of course you can only browse through one of them.

I cannot promise, but I will try to get everything done till sunday evening (remember I'm in germany)

regards
jj

[Stilgar]

This is very good news, jj.

Thank you for all your work on this great hack.

[tamborinegal]

That looks great jj. Thank so much for all your work.

I was a little disappointed to read today that Antivirus has decided not to port his AutoPM after addBuddy over to vB3.6. I don't suppose there is any way it could be combined with your hack is there jj? I know that's asking a lot, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Hopefully someone will take over where Antivirus left off. The two hacks together would be just perfect.

Thanks again,

Clancy

[moondragon13]

jj,

Awesome hack, I am installing and can't wait for the other version with paging.

Question, on your demo link you also have:

1. Profile commenting (did you use the hack here on this site?)
2. What is the "Favoriten" box? Is that just a list of links? Is this a hack or vBulletin thing?

[jj]

Originally Posted by moondragon13

1. Profile commenting (did you use the hack here on this site?)

It's this one:
http://www.my-vb.de/board/hacks-addo...aestebuch.html

Originally Posted by moondragon13

2. What is the "Favoriten" box? Is that just a list of links? Is this a hack or vBulletin thing?

It's just a profilefield which is set up as a textfield. I've got a simple plugin to activate bbcode parsing on all profilefields shown in our profiles.

[jj]

Originally Posted by tamborinegal

I was a little disappointed to read today that Antivirus has decided not to port his AutoPM after addBuddy over to vB3.6. I don't suppose there is any way it could be combined with your hack is there jj? I know that's asking a lot, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Hopefully someone will take over where Antivirus left off. The two hacks together would be just perfect.

Well I wrote a pm to Antivirus, lets see what we can do here...



Some progress on the new version: I started to get the html code the plugin into templates and it seems to work fine. I will have to look into the template caching thingy

Just another thought: Maybe we can find some SEO users here, to get this work with SEO too? And maybe I can get an admin account on a test system with SEO from them, to play around with my product?

[jj]

Just updated the files here. Have fun and good night

[rossco_2005]

Something seems to be wrong.

All teh headings are missing...
for example instead of it saying "rossco is a buddy of: (6)" it just says "(6)"