Place Avatar in VB and Non-VB Pages
 

The following is a bit of code I came up with to continue to use the Avatar in Navbar mod by fraghappy. After searching for many hours I decided just to figure it out myself.

On the bright side, none of the plugins and db queries from the old mod are used.

I'll try to support this as much as possible, but I don't foresee anyone having any real issues. It's pretty straight forward.

Don't forget to click the INSTALL

Features in progress

• Add Auto-Resize for Navbar Only
• Add AJAX function to expand to original size on mouse over
• Definable default no avatar images for usergroups
• AdminCP Options
• Build as a simple product

You just need to become familiar with the following bit of code:

This will display a users avatar:
and this is what I use in place of the Avatar in Navbar mod:

In navbar template replace:

with this:

In non-vb pages (i.e. vbp_navbar I use vbPortal) I use this code: You must modify this to match your portal or external pages

Then just simply assign the noavatar.gif as the default avatar for your usergroups. From then on your users that have not uploaded a custom avatar will be displayed the noavatar.gif

Personally I don't use the no avatar image as the default. I created a custom default avatar for each usergroup.

As for the plugin for the original Avatar on Navbar mod, I don't even use it. With this bit of code it's simple and not needed.

or if you want to call it directly using an http: use this method:

The user must be logged in to the forums and using cookies to work outside of the forum root. If you are using an integrated portal system you should have no issues!

Enjoy!

07/28/2008 - Added simple screenshot.

Thank you very much, But I have one question, for those who have Big Avatars will this Mod resize the Avatar for what ever pixels want it?

Thank you </installed>

My attempts to contact the author of Show User's Avatar in Navbar v1.1, fraghappy have been unsuccessful. I'll try to make this into a product with <if> functions to call a default avatar if no custom avatar exists.

None of the original authors code is needed using this method so there shouldn't be an issue!

No it doesn't! I am working on adding the resize image function just like when you add a custom avatar through the admincp. At this point I advertise max avatar sizes. My users have been pretty good about resizing thier own images.

I'd like to have it resize just for the navbar only and then add some ajax function to it so that it expands on mouse over.

I'll keep everyone posted on the progress!

Thank you mate, very nice of you

super cool mod

Can we see a demo please..

How do I do this?

Cant wait for the resize image function.

1) First Create a separate Avatar Category for each Usergroup:

In your admincp go to Avatars> Avatar Manager> Create New Avatar Category

2) Go to Avatars> Avatar Manager> (Usergroup Category) Avatar Permissions and select "No" for all usergroups except "Administrators" and the usergroup you setup the category for.

Repeat this step for all the other Usergroup Categories you made.

3) Go to Avatars> Upload Avatar and select the image you use as your "NoAvatar" image. Set the Minimum Posts field to "0" and select the category that will use it. Give it a Title and click UPLOAD.

Note: You can use the same image for each usergroup category but you must upload it for each one separately.

Repeat this upload step for each user.

I only use two usergroup categories so and both have individual images.

I hope this helps you out!

thanks for the explanation!

now I'm trying to set an avatar as default so that when a user registers the avatar is already selected in his or her account instead of 'no avatar specified'.

Is this possible?

It is possible.... If you can give me another couple of days I'll have a total solution for you. Then the above steps won't be needed. I'm very close on this but work is taking alot of my time.

ok! cant wait
thank you for taking time for this

Thank you! I was looking for the right code to display avatars in the navbar. I need them to be smaller, too, though.
*installed*

I am sure it is a dirty cheat, but I just used the html to call the avatar directly in my navbar, then added width="25%" height="25%". It seems to work perfectly. For those with no avatar, the space is just blank. I would really like to use the default avatar instead though, I haven't found anything to do that in anything even close to the current version and I have a lot usergroups, so ....
<crossing fingers you'll put it all together for us> :)

I take it back - it doesn't update when the avatar is changed or deleted.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....19&postcount=8

read that ...... and cant wait for the resize feature either:p

Works nicely! Will let you know if any bugs or problems appear :) marked as installed!

I can't get this to work. put the code in for a non-vb page, and edited the two directories to match my forums, but all I get is an image that says "vbulletin" on it. And clicking the image logs me out of the forums, even though I have cookies enabled and am permanently logged in.

When you say you "edited the two directories to match your forums", what edits did you make? Can you post the code you are trying to use?

Also, with regards to your cookie issue... What is your "Path to save cookies" and "Cookie Domain" set to in your VB Admin options? Based on your issue, I'm assuming you are using the direct method (i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/..........). If your cookie path and domain settings are not correct, entering a direct link will cause the user to be logged out.

Let me explain... If I visit http://yourforums.com and login, I'm able to click on other links beginning with the http://yourforums.com and stay logged in. If you direct entry a link as http://www.yourforums.com and your cookie path is not setup to recognize the two as being the same, I will be logged out.

Provide some more info and I'll help you sort it out!

would this work on a wordpress blog using the wordpress bridge?

I can't seem to get this operating.

When i try to find the original navbar code for replacement, I'm not seeing it.

I don't want to add a default avatar to all users but I would like to display a default avatar in the navbar when the user is missing one.

could that be done with something like?


Another question: The avatars display just fine but when a person without avatar logs in the text "Your avatar" is missing and all there is is a blank space.

I'm trying to place the avatar right next to my "Welcome _____, you have X PMs and notifications" part of the navbar.

Here's my code I'm using, with the avatar part highlighted red:

I've also tried using:

I used my website's domain and forums path, of course, and the www's part is not an issue.

if a user doesn't have an avatar though it doesn't show the noavatar pic... matter of fact in the code i also can't see anything saying it should pick out a noavatar pic.

and if a user isn't logged in it shows this image:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/image.php?u=0

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/11/1.php?u=0

Anyone?


edit:

After taking a look, it seems that the codes given in this thread are calling whatever the url of the current page is as the image. Since a webpage is obviously not an image, that is why the avatar won't show up. My question is, how did everyone else get theirs to work. I've tried using "$avatarurl" and "$user[avatarurl]" as the image source and still haven't had any luck.

It works on my test site which have vBadvanced and vbulletin files in the same folder(root), but It won't work on my live site where I have vBa inte the root and the forum in /forum

Any idea why?

I should probably point out that this is the same problem I'm having.

Would be great with a fix!

I'd like to update by saying that even after moving my compss to inside my forum's directory, I still have no avatar showing up.

Just add the following in your template and it works fine
Obviously change the red bits to your own domain and forums directory.

I have 3.7.4
I tried everything u guys said
It just gives blank

I'm running 3.8.0 on a test site and only wanted to display a small version of the member's avatar so I streamlined the code to this.
You people running vBa in a different directory will need to edit your header and navbar replacement info in your vBa settings.

Can someone come up with a fix. I cant manage to install this avatar thingy into my navbar.



unless, the instructions are just confusing.

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks

there is one thing missing...

what if the user is using a avatar from a different site, for example, from google images
or is using gallery avatars from the images/avatars directory

A simple tweak.

If you dont want the goofy vbulletin image to come up for guests, simply add:
<if condition="$show['member']"> to the beginning of the code and a </if> to the end of the code. Then the avatar will only show for logged in users.

This also doesn't seem to work if you store custom avatars in the filesystem as opposed to the database... anyone know a workaround?

I think that may be my problem as well. When I use any of the above codes, it only shows up as a text link 'Your avatar'. I figure it has to do with the filesystem storage type?

If not, I have no idea why it won't work..

isnt the "&dateline=date" missing?

if the member not have avatar how i put "noavater.gif" ?

Yes it happens the same for me, the avatar does not update, but it does change in the postbit!