[Snippet/Module] Friends Listing

Hi all,

By special request of Zi ...

Here is a simple snippet (and module) for displaying a random selection of friend’s names that can be linked to their website addresses on your site. The main output is an unordered list that can be styled to your heart’s content

Installation Instructions

1. Copy the contents of friendslist_module.tpl into a new module and run (this will install the db table)
2. Copy the contents of friendslist_snippet.tpl into a new snippet.
3. Add/Update your friends names and web addresses using the module.

Snippet Params

&items - the number of friends you would like to be displayed in the list
&link - whether to link the name to the website address.

A ’friendslist’ class has been added to the <ul> so that you can style the output.

Snippet Usage

Demo URL: http://www.immerse.me.uk/ (right hand column)

This will display a randomised list of all the names:

This will display a randomised list limited to 5 names with no hyperlinking:

So, there you go ... enjoy!

Cheers, Garry

Nice!

Seems to me this could be used for any kind of "links" you want. Now if it had categories...

Reading my mind Susan ! Nice snippet, could be used as a randomized blogroll indeed

You mention categories, I’d add (if it’s not too complicated) why not let the user choose if it should be randomized or not ?

Anyway, thanks Garry ! (and, thanks for the link to my blog )
very handy

The demo is on http://www.immerse.me.uk/

Well.. original idea demo is on http://zidesigns.com

*zi now going to automate his friend’s list *

Much much thanks to Garry! Nice work!

regards,

zi

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 11, 2006, 11:53 PM

Seems to me this could be used for any kind of "links" you want. Now if it had categories...

Categories is something I’m working on as part of a very big update on the Autolink module - my aim is to get all the necessary functions into a Category class that can be used on other modules such as this.
Quote from: davidm at Apr 12, 2006, 02:18 AM

why not let the user choose if it should be randomized or not ?

With a bit of tweaking this shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve - I’ll add it to my ’to do’ list
Quote from: zi at Apr 12, 2006, 05:00 AM

Well.. original idea demo is on http://zidesigns.com

Zi does deserve the credit for coming up with the original idea and suggestion for this - I just did the code

Cheers, Garry

Quote from: garryn at Apr 12, 2006, 03:06 PM

Quote from: zi at Apr 12, 2006, 05:00 AM

Well.. original idea demo is on http://zidesigns.com

Zi does deserve the credit for coming up with the original idea and suggestion for this - I just did the code

lol... Thanks man! You’ve done a great job.

Keep up the good great work!

best wishes,

zi

Thanks for this great module/snippet thingy - works perfectly, exactly what I needed!