[Tigga]

Ok, here's a quick & easy way to add the news avatars. I wouldn't recommend adding it if you have a couple of dozen news posts, but otherwise it won't really have an effect on performance.

In your myvbindex.php find:

// News Comments

Right above that add:

PHP Code:

$newsavatar='';
$newsavatarurl=getavatarurl($news[userid]);
  if ($newsavatarurl=='') {
    $newsavatarurl='images/clear.gif';
  } else {
  $newsavatarurl=''.$newsavatarurl.'';
  }
  eval("\$newsavatar = \"".gettemplate('index_news_avatar')."\";"); 


Then create a new template called index_news_avatar with the following content:

PHP Code:

<img src="$bburl/$newsavatarurl" border="0"> 


(Of course you can edit that if you would like it to link to the news posters profile or something like that)

Then in your index_newsbits template add $newsavatar wherever you'd like the avatar to appear.
That's it.


I should have a little more time to work on the hack and release the next version by next week. After that I probably won't be releasing any future versions for a while as I'm going to be concentrating on a much bigger project that will combine myvbindex with a bunch of other options. Assuming everything goes well I'll be looking for beta testers in a few weeks, so I'll post more info about it then.