[TIP] Bandwidth savings tip

[ironlogik]

For those of us with big boards, and with avatars enabled, here is a small piece of code I added to my postbit (in my case postbit_legacy) template, which makes it so that guests do not see avatars.

FIND:
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<if condition="$show['avatar']">

ABOVE ADD:
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<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1)">
&nbsp;
<else />

THEN FIND (couple lines down):
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</div>
</if>

BELOW ADD:
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</if>

thats it... simple yet effective.

[BamaStangGuy]

Very cool

[Infopro]

Nice. Thanks.

In my postbit if I add the </if> where you suggest it hides all data on left.
Adding the </if> just after;
[snipped here].........vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>
It works great.

[deathemperor]

and if you have avatar categories, make all the images hosted in other servers so that the main forum is faster and lighter

[abdobasha2004]

u can just wrap the code in <if condition="$show['member']"></if>

to be :
<if condition="$show['member']">
<if condition="$show['avatar']"><td class="alt2"><a rel="nofollow" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>
</if>

[abdobasha2004]

I even developed a better looking and band width saving one :
Find and replace :
<if condition="$show['avatar']"><td class="alt2"><a rel="nofollow" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>

with :

<!-- 100fm6.com BW save -->
<if condition="$show['member']">
<if condition="$show['avatar']"><td class="alt2"><a rel="nofollow" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>
<else />

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']">
<if condition="$show['avatar']"><td class="alt2"><a rel="nofollow" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>
</if>
<!-- /100fm6.com BW save -->


this will :
1- for members show avatars as normal
2- for visitors show avatars in first post only

like it?