Buddy List

[Sean]

Okay thanks for your time, ill do some research and read previous threads etc,

thanks for all of your help

[NoRad]

Any plans to make this into a more advanced buddy list, allowing members to display their buddies on their profile, along with a special buddies screen that is easy for you to check off names for private message(s)?

[[Unknown]]

display their buddies on their profile

Hmm.

-[Unknown]

[dschwab9]

Can we list enemies in our profiles too?

[NoRad]

Enemies (known as your blacklist on other popular sites I frequent) should not be displayed to the public in my opinion.

Here are some neat things another site is doing:

Blacklist: You can only blacklist somebody if they've sent you a private message. The number of blacklists shows up on their profile, much like karma would. A blacklist functions like the SMF enemies list, preventing other users from contacting them (harrassing them) via private messages.

Buddylist: The buddylist is an opt-in system with a basic challenge-response private message between users. It's a mutual system. So, if I add you and you authorize the request then I am added to your list as well. The buddylist is then displayed on the bottom of a users profile page with avatars (thumbnails) for the first x number of users. A link is provided to view the entire buddylist (nice for people that have 100+ buddies or whatever). The full screen buddylist only has an alphabetical list of names.

Second function of Buddylist: You can click a special buddylist/friends button (similar to where your profile button is) that allows you to easily access an alphabetized list of your buddies, sorted based on online status. This makes it easy to communicate with your friends while they are online.

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These features could really help SMF out a lot in my opinion. It kind of fills in the gap between the awesome forums and the not-so-awesome private messaging features. I'd love to see a hack/mod for the PM's to display more like a yahoo Email page than a post reply / topic summary situation.

Thanks for reading.

[Grudge]

Radianation,

I don't intend to progress this mod further, but a similar system will be integrated into SMF 1.1. I do like some of your ideas but think that they may still be a candidate for a mod. What I may do is make a mod after 1.1 comes out to enhance the standard buddy functionality - or someone else can do it

Grudge

[NoRad]

Thank you. I just thought I'd throw a detailed message about what I'm looking for incase somebody did want to pick it up. I look forward to 1.1

[edi67]

lovely mod grudge work perfectly with my SMF 1.0.1

i have one question for you, cause in my forum Global Mod are colored in Blue in list online users i have little confusion cause this mod colured too buddy user in blue, is possible add near buddy users one little icons ? for separate them from global moderator users?

i not want only change color blue in another but may be have one little icons for separate them .

[FaSan]

In BoardIndex.php you may change color :

$row['onlineColor'] = 'blue';

[edi67]

In BoardIndex.php you may change color :

$row['onlineColor'] = 'blue';

i know this i already done but i like more if i can add one little icon near one buddies

[[Unknown]]

I wouldn't be opposed to opt-in functionality for the buddylist, but it seems as if it would be fairly complicated to implement.

-[Unknown]

[NoRad]

Hmm... Wouldn't it work similar to how a new user is signed up, but the Email isn't confirmed? Couldn't there be a flag like this? I'd use a lookup table for the buddies.

[tomsl]

Is it possible to find a list over your own buddy list? That would be great.

Tom

[NoRad]

What do you mean?

[tomsl]

What do you mean?

Just like the memberlist. So you'll be able to view all members you have put in your own buddy list.

[NoRad]

Dunno. I requested this also.

[Grudge]

Well - you can edit them from "PM Preferences" I believe, not quite what you want I guess, but close?

[edi67]

is possible add users on buddy list not only from profile but from them post too?

i means one little buttons for add them from every them post

[NoRad]

I suppose you could do that by hand, but that seems like a feature not many people would want. I think it's better to have to go through their profile to add them.

[madfiddler]

Tried this on 1.0.1 and got this when I tried to add a buddy...

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare buddymanage() (previously declared in /home/blah/public_html/fiddleforum/Sources/InstantMessage.php:874) in /home/blah/public_html/fiddleforum/Sources/InstantMessage.php on line 900