User's Favourite Quote in Postbit...

This hack will add the User's favourite Quote in the Postbit...

Download the attached file for the Instructions, or see below :

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Step A)

Create a new User Profile Field (in your Admin CP). For myself, I created a new field with these properties, in order from top to bottom:

"Favourite Quote"
"Enter your Favourite Quote"
Max Input - 250
Field Length - 25
Display Order - 2
No
No
Yes

Step B)

You need to determine the field id of your new field. If you've never before added a custom profile field, this should be 5. When you hover over the "Edit" link when you go to "Modify" in your Custom profile Field section, a link should appear at the bottom left of the page. It will look something like :

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/admin/profile.php?s=&modify&fieldid=7

The last number, in this case "7", is the field id.

Step C)

Open the file: admin/functions.php

Find this:

PHP Code:

        if ($post[aim]!="") {
            eval("\$post[aimicon] = \"".gettemplate("aim")."\";");
        } else {
            $post[aim]="";
        } 


And add below :

PHP Code:

            if ($post[field5]) {
                  $favquote="$post[field5]<br>";
            } else {
                  $favquote="";
            } 


(Note : You will need to change the number (5) in the $post[field] brackets to the number that you found out in Step B)

Step D)

Edit the postbit template.

You can put $favquote anywhere in the postbit template that you want. Make sure, however, that there is a <br> before it, but not after it.

Step E)

Upload the functions.php file to your admin directory

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Satan

[filburt1]

Before I spend the two seconds it takes to install this does everything get passed through the profanity/De-HTML'ing/etc. filter?

[Xenon]

same like kurafire.
no hacking is needed for such, becaus you can include every userfield in the postbit template

[KuraFire]

filburt - AFAIK, all user fields are 'HTMLised' as the vB developers refer to it. That is, they htmlspecialchars() every field before output. The profanity filter only applies to posts themselves, AFAIK, but you should be able to check this by going to any user's profile display page (not in admin panel, but the normal one) and checking whether a by-you-censored word appears in there uncensored or not. It will display the same way in the postbit.

But again, you don't have to hack any files for this...

[Chris M]

I suppose...

But I prefer to do it via functions.php...

Satan

[KuraFire]

Why?

No offense, but that's just kinda retarded, hacking functions.php for something trivial and pointless.

(imo)

[Brad]

you can extend upon it with template contral like i did

[N!ck]

hellsatan's point in making the file edit was to eliminate any blank spaces should someone happen not to enter their favorite quote

[Chris M]

Yeh...

Not everyone will want to enter their quotes...

And besides...I find it easier my way

Satan

[MrBojangle1]

it would have been LOADS easyer NOT to have to edit the php file and just gone into the postbit template and pust this

Fav Quote: $post[field*] way easyer then goin into the php file

[Chris M]

Yeh...

But as nick said :

hellsatan's point in making the file edit was to eliminate any blank spaces should someone happen not to enter their favorite quote

Satam