I had the same issues as ChrisLohman, gave it my best, really cool sounding hack. If anyone rewrites the instructions for us simple minded folk, I'll give it another shot :)

Ok, I redid the instructions so it should be a little better, I fixed some of the code stuff that was saying that the image you uploaded was too large even though it was actually smaller.

I take no credit for this, im just helping ppl to get this awesome hack installed. The instructions attached are exactly how and what I used to get mine working.

There are no SQL stuff to run as it has nothing to do with your DB.

Enjoy and let me know how it goes.

I'm sorry that I haven't had time to work on this as of late guys.. been pretty busy with school =(

Cool hack but could you or someone else make this exactly like avatars (icon list, custom icon, custom icons in the database, post count requirement)?

Edit: Never mind, I made it myself including a store integration. Will post it here some time.

Love the idea for this hack, but I'd prefer it if someone could code a version of it where the user wouldn't add a custom mini-avatar but would rather select one from a list pre-determined and provided by the admins... can anyone do that?

Is there any way to change this so that only admins can add mini-avatars?

Yes, all you have to do is avoid making the member.php modification entirely, and don't add in any new templates. You'd just simply upload images to the mini/ directory that have the name of the userid of the user who you want to have that icon.

Now I'm having some troubles with my installation...
I changed it around a bit because I would like to have instead of individual users having an icon, I'd like to have an entire GROUP have the icon. This would work inside the posts because of the $post array being available (and usergroupid being a value inside that array), however - on the front page, for the little "who's online" display, it doesn't work. Obviously the $post array isn't available there so I gave $bbuserinfo a shot - well, $bbuserinfo does have the value I'm looking for, but it only gets the usergroupid variable ONCE (in my case, it's always 6, which refers to Administrator). I'm wondering if anyone knows where either the usergroupid is stored for the current user being displayed in the who's online list (on the forum home page) or where the query is for it so I can add in another query to get the usergroupid for those users.

Thanks!

whats say a 3.5 port?

perhaps for 3.6?

a beta released in 2002
And he hasen't been on since 03
Really no reason to up it =\