Mainly on the provider side this involves creating a custom profile input field and you can decide which user groups can use it and which can’t the reason for this one in particular would be adding a provider’s personal website to the postbit.
The postbit for any non-developers is where you see the persons avatars and in a providers case you see “” My Showcase””, post count etc.. As a provider would you like the option to have your website link under that? Mind you some of you ladies have long and ugly urls so my solution would be just to preclass the web link to something like “”Personal Website”” or something along those lines.
For the mods and admin’s and or people that maintain eccie you may or may not know how to do this but it is really simple and more importantly it will not create multiple query’s to the system other than the one the profile already creates it basically is a simple way of calling information from the system and IMHO this part of vBulletin is very underutilized. It really is a very awesome system which in many ways really is limitless with a little knowledge.
In any case its food for thought, I could help you out with this no big deal. I also have a development site which is the same version of vBulletin I use to mess around with ideas so I could totally put this in action on my board for you to take a look at.
The mod only really consists of 2 parts
First part is to create the custom profile field. (EASY) get the id number from the field.
Second part is to class the code and add it to the correct place in the postbit. Fieldx = field5 or whatever the custom profile field id number is…
Code:
<if condition="$post[fieldx]"><a href="http://$post[fieldx]" target="self">Personal Site</a></if>
