Featured Members

I have a few questions about Featured Members:

1. Does anyone know how to add the users name to the featured members box?  Currently it only shows their image.
2. Is there a way to rank these?  It seems that currently its random.
3. Is there a way to change how many are displayed?  Currently it shows 12.
4. If I have more than 12 Featured members is there a way to have a "next" or "all" link

Thanks in advance for any help in these matters.

Pitfighter

Admin --> Users --> Members -->

Select the Member ID link. When profile opens you'll be able to set Membership Types as well as Featured.

Admin --> Settings --> Basic Settings

Scroll down to bottom of page and you can choose the way MEMBERS are listed among other things

Thanks that helps answer question 3, anyone know about the other questions?

Pitfighter is correct.  I have also been looking for the method of adding the member name or Nickname to display under the photo *within* the 'Featured Members' block.  I have looked thoughout the entire admin control panel including the Builder section.  I do not see any place where you can instruct Dolphin to include the Nickname or anything else below the featured member photo.

My conclusion is, it probably needs to be manually added to the code.  Can someone tell me which file to edit so that I can enhance that little profile with a name or some other data I want to include?

a

Hey bizwiz,

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Would this not work?

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Backup file before you try.

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inc/members.inc.php

// Template customizations

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// profile Nick/Age/Sex etc.

$nick = '<a href="' . getProfileLink( $p_arr['ID'] ) . '">' . $p_arr['NickName'] . '</a>';

1) Add user name/user url to featured member box

Edit file: base/scripts/BxBaseIndex.php

Find: function getBlockCode_Featured

Find code bellow, added code is bold:

$ret .= '<div class="featured_block_1">';
     $ret .= get_member_thumbnail( $featured_arr['ID'], 'none' );
     $ret .= '<center>';
     $ret .= '<a href="' . getProfileLink( $featured_arr['ID'] ) . '">'; 
     $ret .= process_line_output( $featured_arr['NickName'] );
     $ret .= '</a>';
     $ret .= '</center>';
$ret .= '</div>';

2) Sql are now ORDER BY RAND, can be changed in this sql query, $featured_res

File: base/scripts/BxBaseIndex.php

And: function getBlockCode_Featured

3) Answared

4) Yes, but that need to be coded

bump

Thank your lrepton and okweb. I have applied the code suggested by okweb. Identifying the location and the code block function was very helpful.

When I looked at the /inc/members.inc.php file, I found that it already contained the code that lrepton suggested. // profile Nick/Age/Sex etc. $nick = '' . $p_arr['NickName'] . '

';

This was not a solution

okweb's solution worked.

I have made only a slight modification to okweb's code. There needs to be a <br> after the close of </center> so that it separates the record from one below it. I also added a second field to make the Featured Member more interesting.

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$ret .= get_member_thumbnail( $featured_arr['ID'], 'none' );

//ADDED 09/18/2008 TO PUT NICKNAME BELOW FEATURED
$ret .= '<center>';
$ret .= '<a href="' . getProfileLink( $featured_arr['ID'] ) . '">';
$ret .= process_line_output( $featured_arr['NickName'] );
$ret .= '</a><br>';
$ret .= process_line_output( $featured_arr['CompanyName'] );
$ret .= '</center><br>';

$ret .= '</div>';

Thank you both for your help.

Arthur