Avatar Hack v0.8 released

Hi all

OK, at long last, I think this is ready for everyone else to poke at

To make things easier, I've put the instructions up on my site, using a program someone gave me a long time ago that's designed specifically for posting hacks with. At one point I thought about doing a PHP version of it, I guess I have motivation now

This release is still not completely clean. There are a few things not yet coded that I want to get in before it makes it to 1.0. the to-do list is:

• Allow Private Avatars
• Allow usergroup-wide Avatars (like the custom usertitles)
• Clean up the template work for when Avatar images isn't running. Right now, if $avatarshow is off, the templates will display the start of the selector, just with no images. This is mostly because the way the table row formatting gets tweaked adding in the selector, it's easier to just put the blank there.

As always, use at your own risk. It's recommended you back up your vB PHP files before implementing this hack. The database modifications won't affect anything if you back the hack out.

Anyway, you can find the instructions for applying the hack at http://www.moonwolf.net/cgi-bin/vb_m...structions.cgi

To see it in operation, I have a version of it running at http://www.underlight.com/VBB

Enjoy!

Kath

[Edited by Moonwolf on 06-06-2000 at 12:04 PM]

Kath,

i've just implemented your hack - works great (only on the registration page there are no images shown - on the modify profile they are all shown correctly. I've checked your install docs and my templates more than once ... hmmm ...) !

A suggestion: I'm using a simple cgi-script for image-uploads what works fine - the perfect thing would be:

The user could choose an avatar in his profile like in your hack but additionally: If the user chooses "none" he could optionally enter an url to his avatar in an additional field ... if he chooses a "predefined" one - the entry in the URL-Field would be ignored ...

Possible?

TB2:

I'll check the register thing out in the morning. I'm in the middle of doing the private avatar with user uploads version, and trying to fix the dHTML in Netscape problem, so I'll add it to the list.

As far as allowing users to enter avatars held off site, I think most site operators would be hesitant, because of image dimension and load times concerns.

Kath

Great going sofar
[high]* will wait patiently till the final version, and avoind messing up his vB, again [/high]