Buddies Block!

[Xarcell]

This would be a sweet feature...

Just an idea,

-Xarcell

[Moocat]

agreed. it should be call-able using an ssi function but i know nothing about that!

[Xarcell]

yep!

[bloc]

What should the buddies block do..? Show just your buddies?

[Nokonium]

Does the User block display buddies online?

[gerrymo]

What should the buddies block do..? Show just your buddies?

Username linked to profile?
PM Icon next to username?

Only a couple of ideas. Its not a feature I use, but a few members of my site do use it.

[Oldiesmann]

Unfortunately it seems that SMF's buddy list just stores the member IDs and nothing else. However, maybe something like this?

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<?php
include_once('/path/to/forum/SSI.php');

if(count($context['member']['buddies']) != 0)
{
    $query = db_query("SELECT ID_MEMBER, realName FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE ID_MEMBER IN (" . implode(',', $context['member']['buddies']) . ")", __FILE__, __LINE__);
    while($results = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
    {
        $buddies[] = array('name' => $results['realName'], 'ID_MEMBER' => $results['ID_MEMBER']);
    }
    natcasesort($buddies);
    echo '<div align="center"><b>Buddy List</b></div>';
    foreach($buddies AS $buddy)
    {
        echo '<br /><a href="' , $scripturl, '?action=profile;sa=summary;u=', $buddy['ID_MEMBER'], '"><b>', $buddy['name'], '</b></a>';
    }
}
?>

That will give you a list of links to all your buddies' profiles...

[Xarcell]

Well, during the summer months I can have up to 100 user's online at once. So I disabled the show user names, simiply because the list is too long. During school season, I may have 2-6 members on at once. See, so I keep toggling back and forth.

If I had a block to just display my buddies, it would alot easier for me to keep up with my user's/friends.

[IchBin]

You try that code above Xarcell?

[Xarcell]

not yet, I've yet to install tp. Been busy, but I will get to it sometime today.