Hi Jonathan,

It think it would be pretty easy to implement. It would most probably need some interaction with either Links user tables or Community depending on how you have set-up the web-site so that you can check/verify the names added. It would be pretty straightforward without this though by just having an add me to your best friends list button on another user's page. This way the page would obviously use the person's login/handle and thus there would be little chance of error and hence little need for checking.

So depending on how you set it up you may not need to check the names added to a user specific field of friends. You may however want a global to sort the names by add-date, alphabetical etc. order

There could also be a mini (gravatar type) image of the person if say you are using Andy's Thumb Images to provide a normal size image of the user which has a thumb image created on upload.

Let me know if you want to discuss this further as I would be interested in adding this as a default function of the plug-in.

Cheers,

John
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