Mini Mods - Integrating Living Avatars with vBulletin

For those of you who have installed the Living Avatars mod and have faced the problems I have this tutorial is for you. I have found that although LA works with vBulletin, v1.1x it makes no effort at all to use a point system other than its own (resolved in v2.x) or match the look and feel of your forums. This tutorial will will make the Living Avatars (v1.1x and 2.x) mod fit within the look and feel of your forums and in step 1, you will find how to make LA work with vbCredits.

This is not so much a modification or hack as it is a tutorial.

Requirements:
The Living Avatar mod (found at www.livingavatars.com) (Works with v1.1.x and 2.xx)
1 file edit
2 file uploads
1 template edit

Credits: The Living Avatars mod can be found at www.livingavatars.com and is free for all. I used the
instructions by Gary King entitled "How to create your own vBulletin-powered page!" alongside a
script at the Dynamic Drive site to make this work. Thanks goes to Digital Jedi for sending me the links for this.
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NOTES:
This document assumes that you have installed the "Living Avatars" mod. If you have not, please go to www.livingavatars.com, download it and get it running on your site. Once that is done, go to Step 1 in this document.

Note: If you are installing v2.x of Living Avatars, skip step 1 of these instructions

Demo - You will need an account to see it. If you don't want to register, just look at the screencap attached to this post.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1: Go to this post at www.living avatars.com and follow the instructions to merge LA with the vbCredits mod.

Step 2: Make a new template named "LivingAvatars" and put the contents of the
"LivingAvatars-template.txt" file in it.

Step 3: Edit the included "cpnav_livingavatars.xml" file to refer to your forum
directory. Currently, it is set to "/forums/".

Step 4: Upload the "LivingAvatars_vb.php" file to your forum root folder.

Step 5: Upload the "cpnav_livingavatars.xml" file to your "/forum root/includes/xml" folder.

Step 6: Modify the "modifyavatar" template
Look for 2 references to

living_avatars/index.php

and replace it with

LivingAvatars_vb.php

That's it

Note: The Living Avatars mod can be found at livingavatars.com or in this post at vbulletin.org. Thanks goes to Ideal Web Tech for pointing this out.

Note: This works with vBulletin 3.8 as well.

[tokenyank]

Nice release... I did this last year (with exception of integration with vBcredits) and never thought of putting it here either. Very nice indeed.

Originally Posted by iogames

First!

Hey! When did vB.org turn into perezhilton?

Originally Posted by Captain Tycoon

Installed and Marked! I think Ziad has stopped giving support for this mod and stopped the development

Sounds like LA is getting the same treatment as Subdreamer!

[Soliloquy]

The good news is that the Living Avatars forum is accepting registrations again, and has apparently been updated to vB 3.7.2, which means they still care about it.
Using this tutorial/mod, is there any way to restrict access to certain usergroups? I've been needing that option but couldn't get the conditional to work on the modifyavatar page.

[Digital Jedi]

Search the Gary King tutorial linked in the first post, and you'll find a couple of ways to make those pages usergroup permission based.

[Toupsx]

Nevermind, found the issue!

[TimberFloorAu]

In ModifyAvatar I cannot find the edits you say are needed.

Step 6: Modify the "modifyavatar" template
Look for 2 references to
Code:

living_avatars/index.php

and replace it with
Code:

LivingAvatars_vb.php

Have the files changed?

Added this the modifyavatar template

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function check_yes(objid)
{
	yes = fetch_object(objid);
	if (yes)
	{
		yes.checked = true;
	}
}

<if condition="$show['categories']">
function switch_avatar_category()
{
	selobj = fetch_object("avatar_category_select");
	window.location = "profile.php?$session[sessionurl_js]do=editavatar&categoryid=" + selobj.options[selobj.selectedIndex].value;
}
</if>
//-->
</script>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="profile.php?do=updateavatar" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="updateavatar" />

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat">$vbphrase[edit_avatar]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
	<div class="panel">
		<div style="width:$stylevar[formwidth_usercp]" align="$stylevar[left]">

			<fieldset class="fieldset">
				<legend>$vbphrase[your_current_avatar]</legend>
				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
				<tr valign="top">
					$currentavatar
					<td class="smallfont">
						<div style="margin-bottom:$stylevar[formspacer]px">$vbphrase[avatars_small_graphics_short]</div>
						<div style="margin-bottom:$stylevar[formspacer]px"><label for="rb_avatarid_no"><input type="radio" name="avatarid" value="-1" id="rb_avatarid_no" $nouseavatarchecked />$vbphrase[do_not_use_an_avatar]</label></div>
						<div>$vbphrase[note_have_custom_avatar_delete]</div>
					</td>
				</tr>
				</table>
			</fieldset>

			<if condition="$show['forumavatars']">
			<fieldset class="fieldset">
				<legend><phrase 1="$categoryname">$vbphrase[predefined_x]</phrase></legend>
				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0" width="100%">
				<tr>
					<td colspan="$cols">
						<if condition="$show['categories']">
						$vbphrase[avatar_category]:<br />
						<select name="categoryid" id="avatar_category_select" onchange="switch_avatar_category()">$categorybits</select>
						<input type="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" class="button" onclick="switch_avatar_category()" />
						</if>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td colspan="$cols">$vbphrase[may_select_predefined_as_avatar]</td>
				</tr>
				$avatarlist
				<if condition="$show['pagenav']">
				<tr valign="bottom">
					<td colspan="$cols">
						$pagenav
					</td>
				</tr>
				</if>
				</table>
			</fieldset>
			</if>

			<if condition="$show['customavatar']">
			<fieldset class="fieldset">
				<legend>$vbphrase[custom_avatar]</legend>

				<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
				<div class="fieldset">

				$vbphrase[have_custom_avatar_want_as_is]<br /><br />

				<label for="avatar_yes"><input type="radio" name="avatarid" value="0" id="avatar_yes" $avatarchecked[0] />$vbphrase[use_custom_avatar]</label><br /><br />

				$vbphrase[may_upload_custom_image_controls]<br /><br />

				<if condition="$show['customavatar_url']">
				$vbphrase[enter_url_to_image]

				<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					<input type="text" class="bginput" name="avatarurl" value="http://www." onchange="check_yes('avatar_yes')" size="45" dir="ltr" />
					<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="$inimaxattach" />
				</div>
				</if>

				<if condition="$show['customavatar_url']">$vbphrase[option_2_upload_image_from_computer]<else />$vbphrase[upload_image_from_computer]</if>
				<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					<input type="file" class="bginput" name="upload" onchange="check_yes('avatar_yes')" size="45" />
				</div>

				<if condition="$show['maxnote']">
					$maxnote
				</if>

				</div>
				</div>
			</fieldset>
			</if>

		</div>
	</div>

	<div style="margin-top:$stylevar[cellpadding]px">
		<input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[save_changes]" accesskey="s" />
		<input type="reset" class="button" value="$vbphrase[reset_fields]" accesskey="r" />
	</div>
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

</form>

[Digital Jedi]

That probably won't be in there until you activate the Integration link in your Living Avatar's Admin CP.

[TimberFloorAu]

Cheers DJ.

That did the trick.

Do you know where we can directly get rid of that Hideous turquoise blue?

STRIKE that found the CSS is Settings

[RvG2]

works perfectly with 3.7.2!

thank you so much guys.

[Saint_ago]

Didn't worked on Opera 9.52 (and in MSIE 6.0 also):

What can i do?

[ArchangelX]

Great work!