Buddies plugin - friendship management

Oh man- awesome. Can’t wait to check it out. I have been wanting something like this especially after Ryan Irelan showed his but didn’t distribute it.

Does the plugin link to the posts/comments that buddies/friends/followers have made?

That seems like something you would do on your own using the member id.

Does the plugin link to the posts/comments that buddies/friends/followers have made?

noy yet - but you can easily achieve this by passing member_id data that you get from exp:buddies:display to exp:weblog:entries as authors parameter, for exmaple

Just out of interest, and I’m guessing that it does, but does this plugin create a table to hold the data or is it stored in cookies?

I will download later and have a proper look but at the moment I am away from a computer that can allow me to do that sort of checking unfortunately.

Anyway sounds like a nice little plugin so thanks for releasing it for everyone to use.

Best wishes,

Mark

does this plugin create a table to hold the data or is it stored in cookies?

The plugin does not create any new tables in database, nor does it use cookies. Instead, standard exp_message_listed table is used

I was just brainstorming about how to set up a member hierarchy so there could be multiple groups, each with members and a group moderator. I was thinking I might need to build an extension of some sort, but it seems like this plug-in alone used in conjunction with different member groups could potentially accomplish the same thing.

Thanks for releasing this - I’ll have to check it out!

One word: Finally…

I haven’t tried this, but this extension certainly piques my curiosity. I’ve long wanted something like this and was hoping Solspace would’ve finished theirs by now - but it seems like it’s probably on the backburner.

Can’t wait to get this working.. Will report back in a few days! Seems this thread isn’t deserving as much attention as it should!

BTW, I was wondering if anybody is using this in a live environment that I can check up online? Or better yet, if Yuri might have a demo somewhere online.

Thanks for the contribution!

Cheers!

Upon inspection of the documentation of the plugin, I’m a bit confused with how it works. I’ve just installed it and am trying to add a friend to my friends list, but how do I do this? The documentation says to do the following:

{exp:buddies:add subject_id=”%member_id_1%” object_id=”%member_id_2%” type=“buddy”}

My problem? Where do I insert this code? Is this a tag pair, and if not, how do I process the link to perform the action? This by itself is giving me an error. I’ve tested it by inserting member_id’s of the adder, and the added.

Thanks for making this add-on!

Any help on this?

I would be highly interested in this as well, anyone figured this plug-in out? Have a working demo of it?

Andrew Weever’s Followers module works really well. Not sure if others have checked it out. It’s basically a friend’s type module… there just isn’t an approval aspect to it. You just add or remove members from your list of followers without needing them to approve you. It’s a paid module though.

I am getting a “Bandwidth Exceeded” error when trying to download the plugin. Anyone else?

Is there somewhere else I can download it?

Thanks!

Hi everyone, Sorry for being out of this thread for so long. mr_dimsum, call the plugin just like you would call any plugin - simply by placing it into your template. There is no need in ‘closing’ tag. To test, try

{exp:buddies:add subject_id="1" object_id="1" type="1"}

this must add admin user (the on created first) as buddy of himself 😊 To check, go to your Personal messages and see Buddies/Blocked list I’ll provide you with some working examples shortly