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?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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

Try :

title=$avatar[title]

try that where?

The postbit_avatar template. The default template is this:
Try this (based on what Matt said):

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.

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

• modifyavatar_custom
• modifyoptions
• getinfo

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

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

Try that.

You already had us try $avatar[title].

In showthread.php find this:
and replace it with this:
Now you can use $post[avatartitle] in your postbit_avatar template.

Hey Firefly...

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

:D

Glad I could help. :)

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

Thanks, FireFly!

- LANce

Another question ;)

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

Thanks!

Aim

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]