vBBuddies

During the development of my gaming site I was in the need of a hack that would display the buddies list publicly and I found one that I thought would work well for my needs called vBFriends. However I also found that it was in need of additional features to work more for what I needed it for so I modified this hack. Now with the permission of Cloud-Warrior (John Breslin) I?ve decided to release this little hack to anyone else who might find this useful called vBBuddies.

vBBuddies is similar to vBFriends however instead of showing all the members links (linked from, linked to, etc), vBBuddies simply displays all the members buddies only. Buddies that are of course linked back to the member. So for example a member named ?Bob? added a member named ?John? to his buddy list but ?John? didn?t add ?Bob? to his list. Now if that is the case, when looking at either ?Bobs? or ?Johns? public buddy lists you won?t see their names on there. However if both members add each others names to their buddy lists it will then classify that they are true buddies and put them on the list. Hope that makes sense. That?s pretty well what this little hack does.

In addition to the change above, I?ve noticed that there were two main features lacking from vBFriends that members have noted as well I needed done which was more optimized queries, templates and the option for multi paged system. So I?ve added those to this hack, I just hope that I was able to lower the queries down, think at this moment its at 10 total. Anyway enjoy the hack, hope someone else can find this useful.

There are 8 screenshots included for you to see what this little hack can do. :nervous: Now this isn't the greatest coded hack so I'm sure there are bugs. Please do let me know if there are problems with it and I'll try to find the problem if I have then time to do so. Also if you like the hack make sure hit the install button! Enjoy guys!

vBBuddies Information

Current Version Number: 1.0.3
vBulletin Test Version(s): 3.0.7 +
Queries to run: 1
File Edits: 8
New Phrases: 28
New Templates: 6
Template Edits: 4
Last Edited: June 12, 2005
Edited By: Lucas Pawelczyk
Install Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Moderate

Current Features

1. Option to activate or disable public buddy list globally.
2. Option for user to activate or disable public buddy list.
3. Give permissions to whatever usergroup you want to be able to access this.
4. Option for maximum number of members you would like to display per line.
5. Option for maximum number of members to be displayed per page.
6. Ability to have buddy tool menu to add or remove a member to your buddy list.
7. Option to activate or disable private message notification of new buddy.
8. Ability to view buddy links via member profile.
9. Ability to activate or disable online status display option, avatars display option, user title display option, posts display option, birthday display option, age display option, join date display option and last active display option from admincp.
10. Ability to display information text about feature with members.
11. Option to activate or disable buddy indicator from memberslist.

Donations Welcome
lucas@gamitopia.com

Addons

Addon # 1 (Usercp basic addon):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=53

Addon # 2 (Profile advanced addon):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=73

[SS9267547]

Ah thanks, I didn't see that. Fixed it and uploaded changed zip.

[T3MEDIA]

small small typo buddy_infotextmemberview & buddy_infotextuserview

their is spelled wrong. This is HOT btw.
Straight up HOT. NICE ACTION

[T3MEDIA]

<if condition="$userinfo[userid] == $bbuserinfo[userid]"> I think is better in your template (BUDDIES)
wasnt working for me.
again. Awsome.

[SS9267547]

Happy to hear you like the hack.

[SS9267547]

With the typo, what do you mean? What should it be? I'm not getting it lol.

Now '<if condition="$userinfo[userid] == $bbuserinfo[userid]">' where are you getting this? Do you mean '<if condition="$bbuserinfo[username] == $userinfo[musername]">' in the BUDDIES template?

[KTBleeding]

How would one go about having the buddies display on the profile page itself? With then a link to "more buddies" or something similar rather than just a link to them originally?

Is this possible?

[SS9267547]

So you mean like listing the first three buddies on the profile the having a link say something like view more? Its possiable however it will then add extra queries to your profile, well then again maybe not. Do you want something like that? I can make an addon for it if I find it works.

[KTBleeding]

It would be pretty cool, I think.. Maybe more like the 6 newest buddies or something. 2 rows, 3 colums. If that's possible, I think it would be a little better than just a link because it would stand out more.

[SS9267547]

Well I'm not sure about the newest added buddies since that would require alot of work unless this is what alot of people would like. I'd have to think about that. But adding a list of the frist 6 buddies would be easier. Also would it be better to have just a list or the way it is displayed right now?

[KTBleeding]

Oh, the way the layout is now is perfect. The first 6 added is cool, or maybe even randomly drawn from the database?