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Showing an avatar in the CMS

Hello

I need to add an avatar to the articles of my site on request of the authors, but everything I have tried does not work.

I found something but I'm pretty sure it is outdated and does not work.

So please help me out.

Where exactly does the avatar need to show? Show us what you have tried, and what you found but is outdated.

http://thejestersgallery.com/index.php

if you take a look at the articles, I want the avatars to show above the publish information.

I have tried this link for vBulletin.com How-To: Add User Avatar to CMS Articles (i thought this was outdated)
This one shows a nice white box but no avatar image

ive also tired this code added to and img code, with no luck

PHP Code:


		
			
<img src="{vb:raw post.avatarurl}"

I got it to work by using this as the plugin code:

Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');

if(self::VIEW_PAGE == $viewtype) {

$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($view->authorid, true);

if ($avatarurl[0]) $avatarurl = $avatarurl[0];



/* render template and register variables */

vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_content_article_page',array('avatarurl' => $avatarurl));

}

I attempted this back in Sept 2011 and now today and the closest I get is just seeing the title Author Avatar and I have never seen the avatar image.

If anyone has a suggestion where to place the code...

Code:

<img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />

in the

Code:

vbcms_content_article_page

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynne (Post 2329329)

I got it to work by using this as the plugin code:

Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');

if(self::VIEW_PAGE == $viewtype) {

$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($view->authorid, true);

if ($avatarurl[0]) $avatarurl = $avatarurl[0];



/* render template and register variables */

vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_content_article_page',array('avatarurl' => $avatarurl));

}

Would I change

Code:

vbcms_content_article_page

Code:

vbcms_content_article_preview

to use it were i want it?

I just placed it where they spit out the authors name:

HTML Code:

                        <vb:if condition="$showuser">

<img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />

                                <div class="article_username_container<vb:if condition="!$showrating">_full</vb:if>">

                                        {vb:rawphrase by_x_nolink, {vb:raw memberaction_dropdown}}

                                </div>

                        </vb:if>

However, it needs some styling, so you'll have to add some CSS to move things around. (Since I don't actually use this code, I never got that far.)

Hmm, its still not working. Do i have to enable something?

Quote:

Originally Posted by imnomarty (Post 2329417)

Hmm, its still not working. Do i have to enable something?

You do have to enable the plugin by going to Plugins & Products->Plugin Manager, scroll down to your plugin and enable it.

Lynne: This is working for me, now I also want to show the avatar on the CMS preview on the home page. What are the steps that I take to register the variable to work on: vbcms_content_article_preview?

Thanks.

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Nevermind, this worked:

Code:

vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_content_article_preview',array('avatarurl' => $avatarurl));

Now my question is, if the person has an avatar the avatar shows, if they don't have one, then text shows up that says: "Author Avatar". I do not want that text to show up, I would like to show a blank avatar picture if the user doesn't have one, sort of like what shows on the blog page if a user doesn't have an avatar. How would I accomplish this?

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I tried this:

Code:

<vb:if {vb:raw avatarurl}!="">





<br /><img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />&nbsp;<br />



<vb:else />



<img src="images/misc/unknown.gif" />



</vb:if>

but I get "an empty or invalid if condition was found. What is wrong with this, can you help me change this so that the unkown.gif shows if a user does not have an avatar? thanks.

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This worked, sorry I asked my question too soon:

Code:

<vb:if condition="$avatarurl != ''">





<br /><img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />&nbsp;<br />



<vb:else />



<br /><img src="images/misc/unknown.gif" />&nbsp;<br />



</vb:if>

You could probably also just use this instead:

Code:

<vb:if condition="$avatarurl">

Thank you for posting your working code! :)

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