Avatar alt tags that actually work

[SFishy]

Because I don't want there to be any confusion about what I'm looking for, and because I don't want to step on anyone's toes, I posting this in a new thread. I'm thinking it's a hack only because it doesn't work in VB "out of the box", but I've posted it over on vbulletin.com in the "how do I" area as well.

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I am using avatars on my board, avatars provided by me, no custom avatars allowed. Each avatar has a title/name, just like post-icons do. Post icons show the alt= tag as the title/name. (example below)...

http://www.fishy.com/test/images/posticon.gif

...Avatars don't have this. How can I get it so that an avatar uses it's given title/name as it's alt= tag, just like post icons do?

In the postbit template I tried "alt=$avatar[title]" but that didn't work. Is there something I have to change in a .php file so it does work, the same way it does by default on Avatars Info Page (http://fishyvb.something-fishy.org/misc.php?s=&action=showavatars)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Matt]

Don't get your hopes up but maybe this will work?

Try :

title=$avatar[title]

[SFishy]

try that where?

[JJR512]

The postbit_avatar template. The default template is this:
<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="">

Try this (based on what Matt said):
<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="title=$avatar[title]">

[JJR512]

BTW, that doesn't work. It only shows title= as the alt bit. But whatever the code is to display it, you want to stick it where I just showed you.

[JJR512]

And the avatar is also displayed by the following templates, so you would need to make similar changes there, too:

modifyavatar_custom
modifyoptions
getinfo

[SFishy]

And I said in my first post, "alt=$avatar[title]" doesn't work. I had tried that before even posting (in postbit template).

It DOES work in the modifyoptions template.

From what I can tell, the members profile stores the avatar id (avatarid), and in a post is told to display that id based on $avatarurl -- I do not how to get the $avatar[title] to relate to this information so that it will show up in the member's post and profile.

Any ideas coding gurus?

Thanks

[Matt]

<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" title="$avatar[title]">

Try that.

[JJR512]

You already had us try $avatar[title].

[Admin]

In showthread.php find this:
".iif($avatarenabled,",avatar.avatarpath,NOT ISNULL(customavatar.avatardata) AS hascustomavatar,customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline","")."
and replace it with this:
".iif($avatarenabled,",avatar.avatarpath,avatar.title AS avatartitle,NOT ISNULL(customavatar.avatardata) AS hascustomavatar,customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline","")."

Now you can use $post[avatartitle] in your postbit_avatar template.

[SFishy]

Hey Firefly...

AWESOME... that worked perfect! THANKS! Was exactly what I needed!

:D

[Admin]

Glad I could help. :)

[SirLANcelot]

It works!! Great, absolutely!!! I love it!! :)

Thanks, FireFly!

- LANce

[SFishy]

Another question ;)

How about if I want the same effect in the user's profile??

Thanks!

Aim

[Scott MacVicar]

the one for the profile relies on a function called getavatarurl and all it does is get the avatarurl and return it so you would have to make the $avatarinfo a global variable in the getavatarurl function and then adjust the query within it to take the avatar title as well then you could use $avatarinfo[avatartitle]