Shoutbox

As you see in my screenshot I don't have any contact information. Now for some reason they are links saying that I don't have the specific information available. I don't get why they are actually links? It doesn't make sense to me. What I was thinking was if the user doesn't have any of that information in the profile then hide the specific row and only show ones that have data for them.

I noticed that too a long time ago but i thought that it'll be difficult to code . Whats the difference if it is there ? Do u find it annoying. Also having all the categories in all the profiles give it kinda look which is similar for everyone.

Well if all the rows are going to stay then atleast there shoudn't be any links saying that the contact does not have yahoo messenger. Its pretty useless. I find it annoying simply because if you have no information technically it shouldn't be a linkl

It seems like a lot of coding for little benefit in my opinon

Not really tbh: depends on how the MySQL queries are structured, and how the PHP deals with the results. You could have something like this:

code:

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if ($queryResult == null)
    put "None";
else
    put "<a ...>"..."</a>";

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No, I don't know PHP, OK?

well if there is already code that prints "none" then instead of making it say none with  a link, it shouldn't be too hard to change it.

It is to keep the layout uniformed and clean.

Also, if you intended to not display each item depending on the users profile then you'd end up with a lot of new templates and template calls to show or not show the information.

The way it works are the templates use the variables $memprofile[]. $memprofile['icq'] etc. These are pulled straight from the database. To allow easier customisation and everything the link is built in to the templates and when a user doesn't have an ICQ number the following is applied:

code:

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if(!$memprofile['icq'])
{
  $memprofile['icq'] = "None";
}

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Why? Because its simple and allows more customisation.

"Picky, picky, picky". I don't really see how it is an issue.

it isnt exactly hard to code

code:

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if($user['msn'] != "") {
  echo "<the row stuff>";
}

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I had seen it a long time and it looks like a javascript. Wait i need to check something.
Yup its a javascript allowing u to add that person directly without much effort. I just read what chris said and i cant see what the prob is as i have said earlier.
It says none doesnt it

quote:

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
it isnt exactly hard to code

    code:if($user['msn'] != "") {
      echo "<the row stuff>";
    }

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You're taking away the functionality of the template system and customisation there.

quote:

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Originally posted by John Anderton
I had seen it a long time and it looks like a javascript.

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It opens a javascript popup window with each account's specifics.

Like I said, why are we being so picky over something so small like this?

I also said it is to keep the layout uniform and nicely spaced out.