Gravatar plug-in for vBulletin?
 

Has anyone run across a gravatar plug-in for vBulletin? Gravatars are gaining popularity in the blogging world, as they make it easy for someone to update their personal avatar once for all sites that they post at.

Seems like this would be a nice addition for forums, too!

I'd also really like to see this.

I haven't written a plug in before and really don't have time to do it right now.

But Gravatars are pretty straight-forward.

The plug in should allow the site to default only to Gravatars or to allow them as optional settings.

Gravatar Plug in Setup Options
1. Gravtars - in additon to or only avatars available
2. Size - Gravatar supports auto resizeing between 1 and 512 (or source max)
3. Ratings - default to G but allow the site admin to optionally choose, PG, R or X ratings.
4. Default - Allow to pass the URL for the default (or choose one a the Gravatar.com defaults)

You take the email address of the user, do an MD5 hash on it, add it to a URL as a parameter for the graphic and you are done... yeah.. really.

I wish the default vBulletin system would directly support Gravatars =(

http://www.Gravatar.com

Note: To load up an avatar from Gravatar on a site like this one that has an option for a custom URL, either end the URL with .jpg after the hash, or if you have to add parameters, add something like &type=.jpg so the script will see that it is a "valid" image file. (vB looks for the file extension.)

My avatar on here was loaded from Gravatar, however, it is loaded once and stored on the system I believe. (and yes, I do look like that.)

My Current Gravatar is below.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/10/17.jpg

I find it very weird that a service such as Gravatar in this day in age is not supported by many of the Bulletin Board software solutions available today. Quite honestly, I would like to have at least something as simple as a custom profile field where a user can paste in their Gravatar MD hash link and have it display their gravatar instead of their avatar.

I'll look into this later, it can't be that difficult to implement a solution for this :rolleyes:

Try my Plugin.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=208499

Another implementation is available here in case you want to use Gravatars for all users without avatars, in conjunction with afzz's mod, for example:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205963