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)

[jj]

v2.0.2

• [Fix] Fixed the german xml file on 2007-27-08

v2.0.2

• [Fix] Add/remove buddy phrases switched

v2.0.1

• [Fix] Error in pagination count and displayed entries mismatched
• [Fix] Profile links by username should work now

v2.0.0

• [Change] GLOBAL Phrases now in sperate phrasegroup
• [Add] HTML code now in template system
• [Add] Pagination

v1.0.5

• [Fix] Prevent showing the "red X" in Internet Explorer, if no profile pic is set and you're using file based storage of the profile pics

v1.0.4

• [Add] Option to set hight/width of avatar/profilepic
• [Add] Option to use profilelinks with id or username
• [Add] Option to show only friends/buddies with username if you limit them to a max number

v1.0.3

• [New] It's a product now
• [Add] Phrased
• [Add] Setup options moved to ACP (vBulletin options)
• [Fix] Little fix with added option from 1.0.2

v1.0.2

• [Add] Option to remove "friends" from being shown in buddy-list and buddy-by-list

v1.0.1

• [Add] Friends list/Buddy list will not show up, if no friends are available. Also the additional Buddylist/Added by list will not show up if both of the are empty (i.e. you added no buddy and were not added by anyone else to his buddylist)
• [Add] Prefixes to add/remove buddies in the additional lists now editable in setup part (what is meant exactly? these: [+], [-] as the default)

v1.0.0

• Initial release

[FleaBag]

Thanks for the confirmation that it will work in 3.6.x... Shame that filesystem images won't work though. I guess I'll have to reluctantly move them back into database to use this beauty. A question: How are friends sorted?

[jj]

Originally Posted by FleaBag

Thanks for the confirmation that it will work in 3.6.x... Shame that filesystem images won't work though. I guess I'll have to reluctantly move them back into database to use this beauty. A question: How are friends sorted?

They are ordered by username. If you want to change it, you need to edit the plugin code under the hook "member_complete" on line 21 from

PHP Code:

                    username" 

to something like

PHP Code:

                    RAND()" 

ie. for randomization. Someone mentioned that in the 3.5.x Thread already.

The buddy-by ordering is located on line 44.

[projectego]

Cool idea, thanks!

[FleaBag]

The beauty of RAND.

Exactly how I'd like to do it, thanks for the info jj.

[Veer]

Hi, I have installed your 3.5 Release in my vb 3.6.0
So is there any need to update or re-install it to this 3.6 release?

thanks.

[jj]

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

Hi, I have installed your 3.5 Release in my vb 3.6.0
So is there any need to update or re-install it to this 3.6 release?

thanks.

No, as you can read under "EXTRA INFORMATION" it's absolutely the same version and code. I've just tested it myself with a 3.6.0 vb.

[Veer]

okay, thanks

[MaestroX]

Thanks for this, I hope people expand on improving the profiles in vB3.6 at the moment there arn't many mods out there.

p.s. The demo site has a really nice layout of the profile. Anychance you'll release a mod to do similar?

Thanks once again