[kh99]

I always cheat on stuff like that because it's hard to figure out. So in this case I went to includes/class_postbit.php and stole the code (and changed $post to $vbulletin->userinfo):

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['avatarid'])
{
    $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarpath'];
}
else
{
    if ($vbulletin->userinfo['hascustomavatar'] AND $vbulletin->options['avatarenabled'])
    {
        if ($vbulletin->options['usefileavatar'])
        {
            $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'] = $vbulletin->options['avatarurl'] . '/avatar' . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . '_' . $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarrevision'] . '.gif';
        }
        else
        {
            $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'] = 'image.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'u=' . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . '&dateline=' . $vbulletin->userinfo['avatardateline'];
        }
    }
    else
    {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'] = '';
    }
} 


putting that in parse_templates seems to work. And you also need a plugin on init_startup with:

PHP Code:

define('AVATAR_ON_NAVBAR', 1); 


Strangely, the code already has checks for AVATAR_ON_NAVBAR, but it seems to do nothing except load the avatar data into $vbulletin->userinfo[] (but it turns out to be what's needed to make this work).

Anyway, then you should be able to use {vb:raw bbuserinfo.avatarurl} in a template.