Forum Display Enhancements - If User Hasn't Got An Avatar Show Default Avatar With Link To Set One

I think that when most of your users have custom avatars set it makes your forum look alot better as your user has shown some sort of commitment to it. Using this small template hack it will encourage your users to set an avatar and if they haven't give a nice alternative.

Also, its worth noting that the link to set a new avatar will only be shown to the user, not everyone using the forum.

Firstly, I will show you the one with the default avatar included. Then another version without it.

Ok, so open up the style manager and open the postbit for what ever style you are using. Then where you want your avatar to display paste this code:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[showavatars]">
<img src="DefaultAvatarURL" alt="" border="0" />
<br />
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid'] == $post[userid]">
<a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editavatar">Set Avatar</a>
</if>

Remember to change this src="DefaultAvatarURL" to whatever your image URL is.

So, this will show the default avatar and a link below it to set their own custom avatar.

This version will not show the default avatar, just the link to set one. Do the same as the first step just paste in this code instead.

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[showavatars]">
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid'] == $post[userid]">
<a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editavatar">Set Avatar</a>
</if>

[1Unreal]

Sorry, I updated it. Try the code again.

[macc]

hello!

used this code and get image (defaul avatar) to work ... what to do now to get your text - select avatar - to work ?

PHP Code:

<!-- user info -->
  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellpadding]" border="0" width="100%">
  <tr>
   <if condition="$show['avatar']">
 <td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td>
<else />
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[showavatars]">
 <td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/blue.gif" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td>
</if>
</if> 


you can see here - http://libar-libar.com/libar/vb/show...=3377#post3377

regards

macc

edit: fixed - now works fine!

maccc

[TriAxis]

Your code listed at the top of this tread did not work for me.

I finally got it to work by using the code that was in one of the reply boxes.

I had to do a bit of editing because it kept showing 2 avatars for all the users that had already picked their avatar. And I was confused in all the extra code about where to put the default image, but I figured it out. As well as making sure clicking the avatar took you to the change avatar area and not to their profile default area.

The bottom line is I did get it to work and I marked installed.