By Captain Tango on Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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I see 'Skype custom field' listed as one of the things coming in 1.3.0
Will this allow for a user to enter their Skype ID that will then be displayed as a link on their profile to Skype?
If so, is there any way we could get a pre-release of this custom field?
I would love to take a look at how it works to build a bunch of custom fields for other sites.
Yes that is correct. It will display a link for Skype and it utilizes the Skype buttons as you can see here, http://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-buttons/create-skype-buttons/ . Unfortunately we cannot release this now.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:23
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That is quite alright, that tells me exactly what I needed to know to at least get things ready to go so that when you release it I can make the other ones that I need.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:30
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Yep, sure creating custom field apps are really easy in EasySocial if you know how to do it. In fact, I urge you guys to look at those apps that we have created and use it as a demo / model
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:39
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I agree, I have looked at the existing ones and they appear to be easy to modify. But I am not a PHP coder myself, and could not figure out how to get a username field to create a link that displays only the username. I managed to get it to accept entry of only a username and to then display it as a link. but it would display the full link.
Example: http://www.somerandomewebsite.whatever/username
when what I wanted was 'Username' as a link that points to that.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:43
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I did not intend for that to create a link here.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:44
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Hello,

It's actually really simple to display a username field


<?php echo $user->username; ?>
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 18:52
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That would show their username from our site, and not from the site we are trying to link to. I also can not put php inside of a link and get it to work.
I am going to have to do something like
 <a herf=$field2 . '/' . $field1> $field1</a>

But clearly coded like that it will not work.
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Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:33
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Hm, sorry but not really sure if I understand what you are achieving here in your codes eh. It looks like you are trying to concatenate field1 and field2 as the link source?
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Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:41
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