vBFOAF - Friend of a Friend exporter for vBulletin 3

Please find attached first version of vBFOAF - an exporter of user profiles to FOAF format.

Note that a user's buddies will become publicly viewable after installing this mod, so it is advisable to notify users of a policy change on your bulletin board.

I haven't modified any vB files, but you will have to create a custom profile field called "Real Name".

Opinions etc. here - for more information on FOAF, visit www.foaf-project.org.

Following comments I will release an updated version.

Directions:

• Copy the attached file into your vbulletin directory
• Call with the parameter u=1 for the userid, e.g. http://www.vbulletin.ie/forums/foaf.php?u=1

John.
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Also the 1st workshop on FOAF, social networking and the semantic web is in Galway, Ireland in September - Call for Papers | Organisers Page

[Cloud-Warrior]

Sorry, can this be moved to vB3 beta forum - oops!

[KTBleeding]

Cool. SO this just displays the users in a certain members buddy list on their profile?

[Cloud-Warrior]

Originally Posted by KTBleeding

Cool. SO this just displays the users in a certain members buddy list on their profile?

Yep, it displays the FOAF-able elements from a user's profile, including who they know (their buddies) - RDF crawlers can then see who is linked to who, for example www.plink.org - later, I'd like to add a custom FOAF code profile field, so that people can add in their own FOAF bit linking to people outside the local site.

[KTBleeding]

Sorry if I'm coming off as ignorant.. but where does it display the friends? Their profiles? If so, you are awesome. I requested this a looong time ago.

[Cloud-Warrior]

Originally Posted by KTBleeding

Sorry if I'm coming off as ignorant.. but where does it display the friends? Their profiles? If so, you are awesome. I requested this a looong time ago.

Ah, sorry - I think I've confused you, this hack provides an RDF representation of a person's profile for use on a semantic web. It doesn't show anything on a person's profile, so it is standalone.

I think what you may be interested in is another hack I beta-ed yesterday - vBFriends.

[Cloud-Warrior]

Moved to Full Releases - thanks Logician.

[Cloud-Warrior]

Updated for vB 3.5:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101472

[rfikki]

3.6.7 shows errors:

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /foaf.php on line 40

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /foaf.php on line 45

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/zebra/includes/class_core.php:3083) in /foaf.php on line 103

[Cloud-Warrior]

I fixed these errors - the new script can be downloaded here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101472