Social icons in forum posts.

[DobbysGamertag]

Hi,

I apologize if this is the incorrect place.

I was wondering if its possible to remove the "social icons". Such as 'view profile' 'email' and 'personal message'

See:



For what i mean. If it's possible to remove them, i could do with instructions on how to do this

Thanks!

[kat]

Admin>Features and options>Profile Fields.

Just uncheck those that you don't want people to use.

[Illori]

Admin>Features and options>Profile Fields.

Just uncheck those that you don't want people to use.

that would remove them everywhere, and those are not the ones the op is talking about and also requires that the advanced profile fields be enabled.

[Kindred]

Just out of curiosity...   Why would you want to do that?

The code would have to be removed in display.template.php

[DobbysGamertag]

Just out of curiosity...   Why would you want to do that?

I dislike them.

The code would have to be removed in display.template.php

Thanks i'll take a look later. Any ideas where i'm supposed to be looking?

[kat]

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// This shows the popular messaging icons.
if ($message['member']['has_messenger'] && $message['member']['can_view_profile'])
echo '
<li class="im_icons">
<ul>
', !empty($message['member']['icq']['link']) ? '<li>' . $message['member']['icq']['link'] . '</li>' : '', '
', !empty($message['member']['msn']['link']) ? '<li>' . $message['member']['msn']['link'] . '</li>' : '', '
', !empty($message['member']['aim']['link']) ? '<li>' . $message['member']['aim']['link'] . '</li>' : '', '
', !empty($message['member']['yim']['link']) ? '<li>' . $message['member']['yim']['link'] . '</li>' : '', '
</ul>
</li>';


[Kindred]

Just be aware... You are going to have your users asking where those links are....

[Arantor]

It's not the MSN/YIM/AIM/ICQ icons, it's the code above that.

And actually, no, I don't think they are. Judging by the suddenness and level of drop I got in PMs after changing my name, most people apparently didn't realise they could click on one of those icons to PM me...

[Chalky]

I removed those icons from my forum in the early days and I've never regretted it.  I don't like them either     I think the topic display looks much cleaner and more modern without them.

What K@ said looks a lot like the code I removed too 

[Arantor]

Except what K@ demonstrated is not the code for the icons the OP talked about, which is managed by:

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// Show the profile, website, email address, and personal message buttons.
if ($settings['show_profile_buttons'])
{
echo '
<li class="profile">
<ul>';
// Don't show the profile button if you're not allowed to view the profile.
if ($message['member']['can_view_profile'])
echo '
<li><a href="', $message['member']['href'], '">', ($settings['use_image_buttons'] ? '<img src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/icons/profile_sm.gif" alt="' . $txt['view_profile'] . '" title="' . $txt['view_profile'] . '" />' : $txt['view_profile']), '</a></li>';

// Don't show an icon if they haven't specified a website.
if ($message['member']['website']['url'] != '' && !isset($context['disabled_fields']['website']))
echo '
<li><a href="', $message['member']['website']['url'], '" title="' . $message['member']['website']['title'] . '" target="_blank" class="new_win">', ($settings['use_image_buttons'] ? '<img src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/www_sm.gif" alt="' . $message['member']['website']['title'] . '" />' : $txt['www']), '</a></li>';

// Don't show the email address if they want it hidden.
if (in_array($message['member']['show_email'], array('yes', 'yes_permission_override', 'no_through_forum')))
echo '
<li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=emailuser;sa=email;msg=', $message['id'], '" rel="nofollow">', ($settings['use_image_buttons'] ? '<img src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/email_sm.gif" alt="' . $txt['email'] . '" title="' . $txt['email'] . '" />' : $txt['email']), '</a></li>';

// Since we know this person isn't a guest, you *can* message them.
if ($context['can_send_pm'])
echo '
<li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=pm;sa=send;u=', $message['member']['id'], '" title="', $message['member']['online']['is_online'] ? $txt['pm_online'] : $txt['pm_offline'], '">', $settings['use_image_buttons'] ? '<img src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/im_' . ($message['member']['online']['is_online'] ? 'on' : 'off') . '.gif" alt="' . ($message['member']['online']['is_online'] ? $txt['pm_online'] : $txt['pm_offline']) . '" />' : ($message['member']['online']['is_online'] ? $txt['pm_online'] : $txt['pm_offline']), '</a></li>';

echo '
</ul>
</li>';
}

[Chalky]

Aha!  That'll teach me to be lazy and not look it up    Since I removed the code on my forum I knew I wouldn't find it by looking there....

[kat]

I think we both got PWNT, there, Chalky...

[Chalky]

Lol