The result looks like this:
Functionality:
Show userīs friends
If is user not logged in or has no friends, this module is empty, but it is shown like other sidebar modules
Show userīs friendīs status:
- online
- idle
- offline
This status is represented by icons (but it can be changed anyway).
It is of course possible to change language of columns displayed (details later).
Send message to userīs friends
- It works smoothly, however in IE 6 when user send the message and click "close" is not possible to scroll down. This is not bug of this addon nor messaging module, i beleive it is bug in Internet Explorer. The solution is pretty simple - just press f5 to refresh or - the better way- download far better Opera or Firefox.
Requirements:
- Pligg (i have 9.7 but it should work on older versions)
- Php Designer or Notepad++ or similar tool,windows Notepad only for masochists
Needed downloads:
Alternative icons:
friends_online.ico
friends_idle.ico
friends_offline.ico
user_message.png
Place it into your ../templates/yget/images/ folder
Part 2 - What to do:
The first question to be answered is how we recognize if user has a friend?
This has been already done by friends addon. I hope you have it. So the second and more important thing is how we recognize if user is online,idle or offline?
After testing Iīve done it in two ways:
1)analysing friendīs inactivity time
2)checking if user is logged in and logged out
So there is first task for you. We need add 2 columns into userīs database. So log in to your phpadmin (or similar tool) and run sql query:
Code:
ALTER TABLE your_domain_users ADD COLUMN user_lastactivity timestamp; ALTER TABLE your_domain_users ADD COLUMN user_logged_in boolean;
2)Open friend.php which is located in ../libs/ folder. We need to modify sql query for our new 2 columns. So modify these two functions:
function get_friend_list():
Code:
// returns an array of people you've added as a friend
global $db, $current_user;
//echo "SELECT " . table_users . ".user_login FROM " . table_friends . " INNER JOIN " . table_users . " ON friends.friend_to = " . table_users . ".user_id WHERE (((friends.friend_from)=$current_user->user_id));";
$friends = $db->get_results("SELECT " . table_users . ".user_login, " . table_users . ".user_avatar_source, " .
table_users . ".user_email, " . table_users . ".user_id , " .table_users . ".user_lastactivity , " .
table_users . ".user_logged_in FROM " . table_friends . " INNER JOIN " .
table_users . " ON " . table_friends . ".friend_to = " .
table_users . ".user_id WHERE (((" . table_friends . ".friend_from)= " . $current_user->user_id . "));");
return $friends;
}
Code:
function get_friend_list_2()
{
// returns an array of people who have added you as a friend
global $db, $current_user;
$friends = $db->get_results("SELECT " . table_users . ".user_login, " . table_users .
".user_avatar_source, " . table_users . ".user_email, " . table_users . ".user_id , " .
table_users . ".user_lastactivity , " . table_users . ".user_logged_in FROM " .
table_friends . " INNER JOIN " . table_users . " ON " . table_friends . ".friend_to = " .
table_users . ".user_id WHERE (((" . table_friends . ".friend_from)= " . $current_user->user_id . "));");
return $friends;
}
3) Open sidebar.tpl in your ../templates/yget/ folder. You may have another template but this could work one way or another.
Now you can choose WHERE new sidebar module should be placed. Personally i choose before tags, so i placed this code:
Code:
{assign var=sidebar_module value="sidebar_friends"}{include file=$the_template_sidebar_modules."/wrapper.tpl"}
You can customize it - if you want to be this module visible only if the user is logged in, the code should look like this:
Code:
{if $user_authenticated eq true}
{assign var=sidebar_module value="sidebar_friends"}{include file=$the_template_sidebar_modules."/wrapper.tpl"}
{/if}
4) Create a new file, name it sidebar_friends.tpl and place it into your ../templates/yget/sidebar_modules folder
Add to this file these 3 lines:
Code:
{* ----- show the sidebar friends box ----- *}
{php}include('sidebar_friends.php');{/php}
{* ---------------------------------------- *}
)). On the other hand - integration into new version of Pligg only with this tut shouldnt be a problem as well
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