Feature/Mod Request- System specs as secondary sig?

[AceTW]

I know there are many 'tech help' sites out there that run SMF, and thought this may be a helpful feature to have.  Please suggest alternatives if you think of them, or if the functionality is already available, then smack me upside the head and point me to it...


Here's my thought..  A secondary signature section that allows you to input several admin adjustable fields, ie - Motherboard, CPU, memory, video, sound, etc...

If the fields were admin adjustable, then any tags could be put on the fields, for automotive themed sites and the like. 

The admin should be able to set 'always show' or 'never show' via the admin panel also.


Whatcha think?

[AceTW]

Oops..

May have put this in the wrong forum.  Excuse my ignorance, and would any mod please move this to the correct forum if necessary?

[Jerry]

You would need some sort of program to report these statistics to a signature, unless you were to fill them in manually when you edit your profile. If you want to edit manually with the profile and add your system specs, that would be very easy Would be a very easy feature to code in, I could probably do it if you need to. You can also search the forum for "extra profile fields".

[AceTW]

"extra profile fields" will be my next search,  and thank you very much!

The idea was for users to fill in the items themselves, just for the mod to make the fields available for them to do so.

I think this would be a very valid mod if it hasn't been done already, in any case,  I'm off to search!


Thanks again!

[Jerry]

Found the link,
http://www.unknownbrackets.com/tutorials/custom-profile
That should do it

[AceTW]

Thanks again, and I've found it and used it already.

If you like you can register HERE and see what I've done.


**Edit**  Well,  it didn't work out perfectly. Seems that all 5 fields get the entered information from the last field entered into them.  Back to work!

[Jerry]

you need to separately name the input fields where it says

<input type="text" name="default_options[profile_real_name]"

you need to change "profile_real_name" to what you want the name of the field to be. It would be very easy to make the information show up underneath the signature, or beside the post. to put it beside the post, it tells you on that page the signature is the same idea except in Display.template.php search for

Code Select Expand

// Show the member's signature?
if (!empty($message['member']['signature']) && empty($options['show_no_signatures']))
echo '
<hr width="100%" size="1" class="hrcolor" />
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%; padding-bottom: 3px;" class="signature">', $message['member']['signature'], '</div>';and add after this instead

[AceTW]

I'm working on it,  and have already found that it's on each post already!  1/2 the battle won and I didn't have to do anything extra! 


I'm going to go over your last input on this and hopefully I'll be back soon with good news.

[AceTW]

So far, so good!  5 new profile fields thanks to [unknown]'s tutorial, and all named and entered correctly thanks to Jerry!


You're the man of the hour Jerry, thanks!

[Jerry]

np, glad you got it working