Profile enhancements

By Markus Sandy at 07/18/2007 - 07:41
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I added a new field to the profile that allows Ourmedia members to store their SpinXpress name(s). We then use the SpinXpress name to build a link from their Ourmedia profile to their SpinXpress profile (if necessary, we convert spaces to underscores, etc).

I also added a feature that allows over-riding of built in social networks. On my profile at http://ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy, the entry for ICQ has been set to "Skype: msandy". The profile code notices the colon and parses the entry into two parts and displays my Skype info instead of ICQ. This feature works in any of the AIM, MSN, Yahoo! or Jabber fields. Note that I am using Jabber for Gmail by entering "Gmail: markus.sandy".

Here is the new field on the edit form (it's down near the bottom of the Personal Information tab).

Note also that we replace email addresses to thwart spammers.

Finally, I cleaned up some of the conditionals that displayed profile data so as to remove extra whitespace (mainly breaks).

Next I'm going to grab an xml or rss feed from SpinXpress and display recent groups and files. Chris kindly fixed a bug in the SpinXpress user feed and I can now get the user's SpinXpress image.

Tech note: Here is the SQL to add the new field to the Ourmedia.org profile (version 4.6):

insert into profile_fields (title, name, category, type, explanation, visibility, options, page) values ("SpinXpress Name", "profile_spinxpress_username", "Personal Profile", "textfield", "Your SpinXpress user name so we can link to your profile", 2, "", "");
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