[Dave-M]

Hi Lynne, thanks for this, brilliant

I wonder if it would be possible for you to implement a dropdown for this, so that it's like wired1's mod? His has broken CSS at the moment and there's no sign of him being able to fix it soon, it would be fantastic if you could make something similar.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248651

[Lynne]

This is an article, not a modification. You may do whatever you want with the information found in here.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by lightbox

Thanks a lot for this article.

Is there a way to use specific User Profile Fields in vbcms article pages (Template vbcms_content_article_page)?

Cheers,
Martin

I'm sure there is, but I didn't cover that in this article. This article is just for the postbit(_legacy) template.

[svoophod]

thanks so much, this is great!

[COL NIL SATIS]

Thanks lynne..this is great!!!! top advice ..

[djr]

Hi Lynne,

Is it easy to backport this to vB 3.8.6? Besides the obvious variable name changes, would the plugin solution work for vB 3.8.6 as well? (meaning: does vB 3.8.6 have the same hooks present?). Or does it need to be completely rewritten?

I'd love to have this a plugin solution for our vB 3.8.6 board, since it's getting tiresome to redo all the template changes after every upgrade (plus I like the plugin solution better)

Thanks for an excellent article! Much appreciated.

[Lynne]

The method of calling the phrasegroup may have been different in 3.8, so you would have to change that. Other than that, you'd just have to change the html you are outputting as <li> wasn't used in 3.8 either. However, I've never tried it on my 3.8 board, so I can't say for sure.

[voglermc]

<a href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}u={vb:raw post.userid}" title="View {vb:raw post.username}'s Album" rel="nofollow">View {vb:raw post.username}'s Album</a>

[Lynne]

You don't need user profile fields to link to album pages (unless you are doing something different?). I'm sure there is a mod or a thread about what you want to do if you are talking about just a plain link that has nothing to do with profile fields.

[voglermc]

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[Lynne]

Then you should post in the main forums about it, not in some random article about the profile fields.

[Black Tiger]

Looks very interesting. You told me this was possible to make compatible for v3.8.x by changing some html code.

Could you or somebody else tell me what exactly to change? I can read a bit of php, but don't know what to do with it, so I would really need a "look for this and replace with that" solution. It has no hurry though.

Thanks in advance!

[Lynne]

Did you see this for 3.8? How To Add Custom Profile Field Information To The Postbit

The only thing I think she doesn't cover is doing it all via pluginand it isn't much different at all for 3.8.

Plugin 1

• hook location - init_startup
• Title - Add User Profile Fields to Postbit Templates - 1
• Plugin is Active - Yes
• Plugin PHP Code -

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Plugin 2

• hook location - showthread_postbit_create
• Title - Add User Profile Fields to Postbit Templates - 2
• Plugin is Active - Yes
• Plugin PHP Code -

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Plugin 3

• hook location - postbit_display_complete
• Title - Add User Profile Fields to Postbit Templates - 3
• Plugin is Active - Yes
• Plugin PHP Code -

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[Black Tiger]

Yep I have seen that, but she left out the Multiple Selection Menus (like in my post about the comma at vbulletin.com yesterday) and that is just what we needed. That part seems covered now in plugin 3 if I understand everything correctly.

Thank you very much for your time explaining it, we are going to try it.