Custom Mini-Profile Creator

[Alan Vende]

Nov 29, 2015 16:44:57 GMT -8 Brian said:

Nov 29, 2015 16:38:54 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Brian : I am looking back in the information about the plugin, and I can't seem to find where it shows how to put custom fields into the mini-profiles. I saw it when I originally put them in there, but for some reason I can't find it now.

The information is in there, right? Or am I going blind?

It's in the User Variables tab of the installation window.

To reference your forum's custom profile fields you can use $[user.customfieldname], substituting "customfieldname" with your custom field's name. You'll need to type the name in all lowercase with no spaces and only use characters A-Z and 0-9.

For example, Mini-Profile Theme becomes $[user.miniprofiletheme]. This will output the value of the custom field. In the case of this example, it'll be the name of the mini-profile theme you've chosen in your profile.

In the Javascript portion of the plugin you'd use the text between the brackets to reference the custom field.

So you put it into the Javascript area? I have been attempting to put it into the HTML area, I think. No wonder why it's not working.

[Brian]

Nov 29, 2015 16:50:17 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Nov 29, 2015 16:44:57 GMT -8 Brian said:

It's in the User Variables tab of the installation window.

In the Javascript portion of the plugin you'd use the text between the brackets to reference the custom field.

So you put it into the Javascript area? I have been attempting to put it into the HTML area, I think. No wonder why it's not working.

You can put it in either. You just need to type it differently depending on which section of the plugin you're adding them to just like every other variable that's listed.

[Alan Vende]

Nov 29, 2015 17:02:18 GMT -8 Brian said:

Nov 29, 2015 16:50:17 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

So you put it into the Javascript area? I have been attempting to put it into the HTML area, I think. No wonder why it's not working.

You can put it in either. You just need to type it differently depending on which section of the plugin you're adding them to just like every other variable that's listed.

I think I finally have it working. I put it into the HTML area and it looks like it's correct because it's outputting the correct information. Thank you so much for your help, Brian.

[Lynx]

Hi, Brian.

This is only a curiosity question. I'm using a slightly modified Example 3 for a couple of our Members. If they make a post and someone likes it, I get this:


Notice the likes this on the bottom right? It normally has just the word Likes and its count:


The "likes this" goes away after a simple refresh, but I was only curious as if you know why it does that. It's no big deal to me, I can live with it - just curious is all.

Thank you!

[Brian]

Dec 1, 2015 10:31:19 GMT -8 Lynx said:

Hi, Brian .

This is only a curiosity question. I'm using a slightly modified Example 3 for a couple of our Members. If they make a post and someone likes it, I get this:


Notice the likes this on the bottom right? It normally has just the word Likes and its count:


The "likes this" goes away after a simple refresh, but I was only curious as if you know why it does that. It's no big deal to me, I can live with it - just curious is all.

Thank you!

If you gave it the class likes it's probably being targeted by the Javascript that updates the likes in the head of the post since that's also the class it uses, in which case you can rename the class of the element the likes are contained in inside your mini-profile to something else.

[Lynx]

Ahhh, okay. That makes much sense. Thank you kindly, good sir!

[Rabdom]

Question: Is it possible to put places for links in the mini profiles here (i.e. for character profiles) that also look organized?

[Brian]

Dec 15, 2015 20:56:25 GMT -8 Rabdom said:

Question: Is it possible to put places for links in the mini profiles here (i.e. for character profiles) that also look organized?

Since you're building the HTML from the ground up in the plugin it's possible to do just about anything with it.

If you want to use custom fields to accomplish that you can do that as well.

[Former Member]

Hi Brian

Ive added a custom profile field but it wont display for some reason just the variable appears.

The field name is favouritemovie and part of the HTML showing what ive done is below

moviecenter.boards.net/thread/36/merry-christmas-happy-new-year?page=1&scrollTo=139

<div class="info">
<span class="float-right">$[user.gender.image]</span>
Posts: $[user.posts] <br />
Likes: $[user.likes] <br />
<div class="location">Location: $[user.location]</div> <br />
<div class="favouritemovie">Favourite Movie: $[user.FavouriteMovie]</div><br />
<div class="online"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/YyNLx.gif"></div>
</div> <div class="offline">Last Online: $[user.last_online]</div>
<br />

Thanks
Dave

[Brian]

Dave B: Your variable name needs to be lowercase for it to work.

$[user.favouritemovie]

[Former Member]

Dec 23, 2015 9:59:17 GMT -8 Brian said:

Dave B : Your variable name needs to be lowercase for it to work.

$[user.favouritemovie]

Thanks Brian

Hope you have a nice Christmas and New Year.

Dave

[Former Member]

Uhm Brian I was trying this out to see what i can do with it but for some reason it gives me this error
"Error1:"mp-info-holder" element not found in this theme's Mini-Profile layout templates, Custom mini-profile could not be added. Click icon for more info."
I did what all of the directions said & still pops up.

[Brian]

Dec 23, 2015 13:42:17 GMT -8 @vtwisted1x said:

Uhm Brian I was trying this out to see what i can do with it but for some reason it gives me this error
"Error1:"mp-info-holder" element not found in this theme's Mini-Profile layout templates, Custom mini-profile could not be added. Click icon for more info."
I did what all of the directions said & still pops up.

What forum is this on?

[Former Member]

Brian Sorry its on vTwisted1x.com but i forgot how to make forum viewable for guests.

[Brian]

Dec 23, 2015 14:06:59 GMT -8 @vtwisted1x said:

Brian Sorry its on vTwisted1x.com but i forgot how to make forum viewable for guests.

It looks like you're missing a closing </div> tag before this line in Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile:

<!-- Custom Mini-Profile Plugin Data -->