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XBL GamerCard Button (Appears just like IM buttons) · **Released**: 12-29-2005

Everyone loves Xbox Live

. Anyhow, there are a few other ways to get the gamertag into the postbit templates but wow does that look ugly!

So I figured "wouldn't it be cool if it looked like the Skype logos?" With that said I looked around and did a lot of fooling around on my test board. This is the end result:

XBL GamerCard as a IM button esque thing

1 - Step one - Create a user profile field (Admin CP => User Profile Fields => Add New

Single Line Text Box
Title: Xbox Live GamerTag
Description: Enter your Xbox Live GamerTag
Show on Member List: On
Field Searchable on Members List: On
The rest of the values are yours to mess in if you want to

2 - Take note of the field value (mine is field9)

3 - Time to edit your template (postbit/postbit_legacy) The path to do so from the Admin CP panel is : Admin CP => Styles and Templates => Template Manager => (Select 'Edit Templates' in the drop down menu for the template you wish to edit => Press [? ?] beside 'Postbit Templates' => [Customize] either 'postbit' or 'postbit_legacy'

Find:

Code:

    <td align="center">$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</td>

Replace with:

Code:

<td align="center">$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]<!-- Xbox Live Icon by Bluestrike2 of the MLGPwnCast.com -->
<if condition="$post[field5]"><a id="gamertagmenu_$post[postid]" href="#" title="View Xbox Live! profile for $post[musername]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xbl.gif" border="0" /></a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("gamertagmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script><div class="vbmenu_popup" id="gamertagmenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none"><iframe src="http://gamercard.xbox.com/$post[field5].card" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" height="140" width="204">$post[field5]</iframe> </div> </if>
<!-- /Xbox Live Icon by Bluestrike2 of the MLGPwnCast.com --></td>

Do NOT forget to change 'field5' to whatever field yours is. The image goes in your style's misc. folder.

That's all folk!

Credit: Stonyarc's thread here for inspiration.

Because of my Mac's TextEdit difficulties (isn't compatible for some reason but has been in the past

) I've attached the logo and a PDF of these instructions.

Bluestrike2 · #2 12-29-2005, 11:31 PM

I'm going to reserve this for space...

(Don't know why though

)

Zachariah · #3 12-30-2005, 01:24 AM

Thanks

Bluestrike2 · #4 12-30-2005, 01:33 AM

Works ok? Awesome!

Zachariah · #5 12-30-2005, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluestrike2

Works ok? Awesome!

- I give thanks for your time and energy
- Let ya know later if it worked

Zip the image w/ the text please. - helps when ppl download and install later.

Zachariah · #6 12-30-2005, 01:56 AM

what editor did you use ? - The text is a mess ?

edit:
MSWord opens it.

Save as a "dos" txt file w/o formating.

Bluestrike2 · #7 12-30-2005, 02:31 AM

Hmmm....

I'm on a mac and I used Text Editor. That sucks - I'll redo the text file in the morning. Sorry!

Edit: Its morning somewhere so its done and updated

.

Zachariah · #8 12-30-2005, 03:19 AM

ya the postbit still needs work

- I got a fake name in the profile to make it show up

The DIV tag shifts it to the next line.

Code:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xbl.gif" border="0" />

allows you to place the image in - style / image / misc

pspcrazy · #9 12-30-2005, 05:52 AM

wow awesome man, im installing this baby. BTW your icon doesnt look to good for the xbox so i made a cleaner one.

pspcrazy · #10 12-30-2005, 06:03 AM

this might be better

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