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]

What do you mean by branch off hack? I mean vBBuddies dosn't use vBFriends, this is a hack on its own. With the row of random users, if you mean having the profile buddies list be random, it already is. But I think you mean having random users displayed on your search form? If thats the case it wouldn't be related to vBBuddies since it displays the buddies a user has not all members on the site. Is that what your looking for? Random users on the search form?

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

What do you mean by branch off hack? I mean vBBuddies dosn't use vBFriends, this is a hack on its own. With the row of random users, if you mean having the profile buddies list be random, it already is. But I think you mean having random users displayed on your search form? If thats the case it wouldn't be related to vBBuddies since it displays the buddies a user has not all members on the site. Is that what your looking for? Random users on the search form?

Sorry yes that is what I meant. I thought the term branch off hack would suit. I saw this idea and thought imagine this idea was on the search but just random users period.

yeah that is what I meant.

[SS9267547]

I really don't see the point of randomly showing users on the search form, I mean there is already a main list where it shows all the users. Perhaps a better ideea would be to show like 3-6 random members at the top of the memberslist page but not sure how that would be performance wise.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

You've made changes to the orginal, so instead look for:

PHP Code:

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array(
    'MEMBERINFO', 


Thanks. Did I say it was hot? Wow. NICE.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by SS9267547

I really don't see the point of randomly showing users on the search form, I mean there is already a main list where it shows all the users. Perhaps a better ideea would be to show like 3-6 random members at the top of the memberslist page but not sure how that would be performance wise.

Well belive me it works. The point of having random users on a search pages make 100% sense. The whole point a user is there is to look for people. and wah-la there are a few. The link I sent you is a huge site. a few million and that is how they get the traffic.

3-6 is good how can you do that I would dump the HTML into my template. (or a new hack or something) becuase this is the best I seen right now.

[SS9267547]

Okay well if this is for the search or the top of the memberslist I can do a listing of a few random members like 3-9 maybe but if theres more then that I still don't see the point.

[SS9267547]

There is a small problem in addon # 2 I just noticed. Find the following in the member.php file:

PHP Code:

        eval('$buddylist .= "' . fetch_template('buddies_empty') . '";'); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

        eval('$profilebuddylist .= "' . fetch_template('buddies_empty') . '";'); 


Note: The install zip has been updated.

[General_]

Hello

Here is the German Translation.
The only thing you have to do is, import the XML File in your AdminPanel.

[SS9267547]

Thanks for posting it!

[KTBleeding]

Got off work a little early and installed. Works wonderfully.
I just have one more small request. Where can I edit what is sent to the member via PM when they are added to the buddylist? I'd like to add a link that says something like, "Approve this buddy list request" or "Add this member to your buddylist".