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Smarter friend request mod

11/07/2009 12:35 AM

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This mod smartens the friend request process (at least I think so).

Currently (at least in 2.5.3) if:
Member A adds Member B as friend
Member B comes and adds Member A as friend (not by accepting existing request from Member A)
Member B gets a message saying "you have already added this member" when in fact they haven't - Member A did the adding before.

This mod changes the above to:
Member A adds Member B as friend
Member B comes and adds Member A as friend (not accepts existing request from Member A
Member A and Member B are now friends and live happily ever after.

The mod:

In lib.account.friends.php

Find:

PHP

$result = $DB->query("SELECT friend_id, request_date, pending FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "friends WHERE ( (friend_id='$id' AND member_id='" . $SESSION->conf['member_id'] . "') OR (member_id='$id' AND friend_id='" . $SESSION->conf['member_id'] . "') ) LIMIT 1");

Replace with:

PHP

$result = $DB->query("SELECT friend_id, member_id, request_date, pending FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "friends WHERE ( (friend_id='$id' AND member_id='" . $SESSION->conf['member_id'] . "') OR (member_id='$id' AND friend_id='" . $SESSION->conf['member_id'] . "') ) LIMIT 1"); //MOD

Find:

PHP

elseif ( $obj->request_date > (time()-60*60*72) )

{

Add after:

PHP

//MOD START
if ( $obj->member_id == $id) {

redirect(VIR_PATH . ($PREFS->conf['fancy_urls'] ? "account/friends/accept/$id/" : "index.php?m=account_friends&p=accept&id==$id"));

}
//MOD END

And that is it!