Placing some vb elements into non-bv pages

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Chris11987

I'm trying to make this page outside of my forums directory.

You need to chdir to the forums directory:

PHP Code:

chdir ('/path/to/your/forums'); 
require_once('./global.php'); 


[Chris11987]

I did that and the page is coming up without error now, but nothing from vb works when I place it on the page, like avatars for example. I tried this code for an avatar:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="margin-top:5px;">
<tr>
<td><a href="$vbpoptions[bbdir]/profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editavatar"><img src="$vbpoptions[bbdir]/image.php?u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" alt="Your avatar" border="0" /></a>
</td>

[Lynne]

I don't believe that is the code to get you to the avatar. You are calling a script (image.php) not an image. You need to call an actual image in order to have an image displayed. Where did you get that code from?

[Chris11987]

From the article. What would be the proper code to display an avatar for a member if they were logged in?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Chris11987

From the article.

Hmmm, I tried to look but couldn't find it in there. Perhaps they were using an older version of vbulletin or something.

I'm not really sure what to use for the avatar. I looked in the postbit template and this is what is in there:

<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>

I'm not sure that the post variable is available to you. You may have to replace that with $user and see if that works.

[Dismounted]

Avatars can be accessed using image.php - but only if avatars are stored in the database. You can access avatars stored in the file system using fetch_avatar_url().

[Chris11987]

Mine are stored as files, so I'd need to use fetch. Can you give me the exact code (using an example file path) I would need for an avatar to appear?

[Lynne]

Take a look in member.php around line 395:

PHP Code:

// AVATAR
$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($userinfo['userid']);

if ($avatarurl == '' OR !$vbulletin->options['avatarenabled'] OR ($avatarurl['hascustom'] AND !($userinfo['permissions']['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['canuseavatar']) AND !$userinfo['adminavatar']))
{
    $show['avatar'] = false;
}
else
{
    $show['avatar'] = true;
    $userinfo['avatarsize'] = $avatarurl[1];
    $userinfo['avatarurl'] = $avatarurl[0];
} 


Does that help?

[Chris11987]

I then get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_avatar_url() in ********************** on line 16


I'm using this code in the header:

PHP Code:

<?php
    chdir ('./forums'); 
    require_once('./global.php'); 
?>

[Dismounted]

You need to include the user functions to be able to use it:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');