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Customizing VSa - Chatbox with user avatars

How to display user avatars. We use the file system to store our avatars, so could not use the image.php?u=userid method.

To show avatars open the plugin titled "VSa - ChatBox - MN" and locate the line:

PHP Code:


		
			
$vsacb_msg_box_parsed = str_replace('\'', ''', $vsacb_bbparser->do_parse($vsacb_msg_box_styled,1,$vsacb_smilies_onoff,1,1,1));

And after that, inserted the code:

PHP Code:


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

$avatar_url = fetch_avatar_url($vsacb_msg_box['userid']);



$avatar = $avatar_url[0];



if (!$avatar)

{

    $avatar = './images/misc/unknown.gif';

}



$user_avatar = '<img src="'.$avatar.'" border="0" width="48" style="vertical-align: middle" />';



vB_Template::preRegister('vsa_chatbox_bit',array('user_avatar' => $user_avatar));

Save the plugin, and then in the template "vsa_chatbox_bit" you may use "{vb:raw user_avatar}" to display the user avatars. :cool:

[S]Hello all,

I am using vBulletin 4.2.1 on my local server as my dev site, and once done, I will go live with this on the forum I help administrate which runs vBulletin 4.2.2 patch level 2.

I am doing some custom hacks to Valter's great chatbox, and I am stumped on how to display user avatars. We use the file system to store our avatars, so I cannot use the image.php?u=userid method.

So, I have written a plugin, hook location is parse_templates, with the plugin PHP code:

PHP Code:


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

$avatar_url = fetch_avatar_url($vbulletin->userinfo[$vsacb_msg_box.userid]);



$avatar = $avatar_url[0];

$user_avatar = '<img src="'.$avatar.'" border="0" width="40" style="vertical-align: middle" />';



vB_Template::preRegister('vsa_chatbox_bit',array('user_avatar' => $user_avatar));

Now, what I get is my avatar in every posted message, instead of the avatars of the users who actually posted the various messages. Can anyone tell me what I am missing? [/S]

I found the solution to my problem! :D

Instead of creating a new plugin, I hacked an existing one. I opened the plugin titled "VSa - ChatBox - MN" and located the line:

PHP Code:


		
			
$vsacb_msg_box_parsed = str_replace('\'', ''', $vsacb_bbparser->do_parse($vsacb_msg_box_styled,1,$vsacb_smilies_onoff,1,1,1));

And after that, inserted the code:

PHP Code:


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

$avatar_url = fetch_avatar_url($vsacb_msg_box['userid']);



$avatar = $avatar_url[0];



if (!$avatar)

{

    $avatar = './images/misc/unknown.gif';

}



$user_avatar = '<img src="'.$avatar.'" border="0" width="48" style="vertical-align: middle" />';



vB_Template::preRegister('vsa_chatbox_bit',array('user_avatar' => $user_avatar));

Save the plugin, and then in the template "vsa_chatbox_bit" you may use "{vb:raw user_avatar}" to display the user avatars. :cool:

Thank you for posting the solution to your problem. Hopefully it will help someone else who has the same issue.

Thank you for this! I was also trying to code this.

thanks, great addon!

Moved to articles :cool:. Also made second post the first post then pasted old first post code into second with strike-through - for reference only ;).

This is an awesome article, thank you!

In the img tag I set height="20" width="20" and it looks great with 14px text height

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/05/26.png

And if anyone was wondering where to place {vb:raw user_avatar} inside the vsa_chatbox_bit template, find:

PHP Code:


		
			
{vb:raw vsacb_msg_box.musername}

And replace with:

PHP Code:


		
			
{vb:raw user_avatar} {vb:raw vsacb_msg_box.musername}

I kind of went wild when I was learning javascript and made quite a few changes to the chat:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1462727590

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkFL (Post 2570358)

I kind of went wild

Yes you did! Site looks great BTW

Quote:

Originally Posted by GHRake (Post 2570386)

Yes you did! Site looks great BTW

Thank you! The style was done by a hired designer, and we have added a lot of bells and whistles. :D

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