Hi there, this one will hopefully be pretty quick & easy. The hack in question is "Friendster Style Profile Fields: clickable, searchable, fun!" (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=98109). If you don't have access to vB.org or don't know the mod, don't fret, its more of a VB question than a specific mod question.

Anyway, I have installed the hack and its working great... only issue is some of the searches aren't quite right. I have determined the issue arises from non-text fields, such as gender. For example,
does not work, because it is a drop down list and thus needs to be
Below is the code for the relevant section of the mod (slightly modified) for those not wanting to download it just to help me ;).

Any help would be greatly appriciated, as I am stumped.

Polite bump as I am still clueless. I would think that something like if "$ii = field 16 then use =3 instead of =junior" would work, but I have no idea on how to implement it...

You could put in the the php:
if ($_REQUEST['field16'] == '3')
{
$_REQUEST['field16'] = 'junior';
}

Thanks for your time, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work . I don't know much about PHP or vBulletin code so take this as a grain of salt, but I think "$_REQUEST" needs to be something more like $profilefield or something. I tried just changing it to that, but no good.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=120833 took some time but seem to work fine

Nah, $_REQUEST is when you put x=y on the end of the url because you can then put:
And that will echo the contents of y. Of course that does depend on how you have it all set up in that hack.

Ah, well perhaps I put it in the wrong place then... where should it go?

Just to claify, this would *replace* the =junior with =3, right? I tried just tacking on =3 to the end of the url when I didn't understand what the problem was, and it didn't work.

What does is the other way around. You want: