[wp-hackers] re: Added Jabber ID field to user's profile - added bio:olb

[B.K. DeLong]

>   I have done a little changes to the wp_users table and to
>wp-admin/profile.php to add a field to hold the Jabber ID of a user...
>As requested as a feature over at sourceforge, any comments to include
>it in the upstream sources?

Being a PHP neophyte, I tried my own hack -

http://www.brain-stream.com/blog/archives/000284.html

I've added the OLB property from the Bio Vocabulary.

Full text:


>Being extremely jealous of the other guys hacking apart WordPress to make 
>it FOAF-y, I've actually done my own PHP hack. This one required nothing 
>more than making sure the "Profile" field under the WordPress User Profile 
>contained a one-line bio. Or...thereabouts. Then I added the "olb" 
>property from the Bio Vocabulary.
>
>Then I made an edit to Christoph Görn's hack of Morten Frederiksen's 
>foaf-output plugin 1.9, (found in wp-content/plugins when installed) and 
>added the following lines:
>
>After the line
>xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>I added:
>
>
>xmlns:bio="http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/"
>
>and after the line
>$rdf .= "\n\t" . '<homepage rdf:resource="' . 
>htmlspecialchars($authordata->user_url) . '"/>';
>, I added:
>
>
>if($authordata->user_description)
>
>                 $rdf .= "\n\n\t" . '<'bio:olb>' . 
> htmlspecialchars($authordata->user_description) . '</bio:olb>' . "\n";
>
>Finally, something I can hack myself. Next step is to try and add a 
>birthdate. Not nearly as easy.




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