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Okay, I searched all over for this and finally found something that works for 3.0.7 in a post, to help those who don't look outside the Mod Forums for answers I am going to post it here.

I did not code it or figure it out, all credit goes to Gellpak in this post. Gellpak, if you want to post this as your hack, PM me and I'll pull it.

Place this at the end of phpinclude_start:

require_once('./includes/init.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_user.php');
$bbuserinfo['user_avatar']=fetch_avatar_url($bbuserinfo['userid']);
if ($bbuserinfo['user_avatar']=='') ($bbuserinfo['user_avatar']='images/misc/noavatar.gif'); 
$bbuserinfo['user_avatar']="<img src='$vboptions[bburl]/{$bbuserinfo['user_avatar']}' border='0'>";
$bbuserinfo['user_avatar']="<a href='$vboptions[bburl]/profile.php?{$session['sessionurl']}&do=editavatar'>{$bbuserinfo['user_avatar']}</a>";
$welcome_avatar=$bbuserinfo['user_avatar'];

Then place the $welcome_avatar variable anywhere you want the avatar to show up.

I corrected his code a bit for people who do not have avatars.

Check the URL and file name for whatever image you use for those without an avatar.

Also, if you use vBadvanced and want this on the main page somewhere add welcome_avatar to the variable list in vBa CMPS Default Settings in the AdminCP.

[CustomizeVB]

I'm using vB 3.6.3, can anyone update this and tell me where I can find phpinclude_start?

Thanks.

[HunteRRosE]

This is a cool idea... BUT... it might be useful to me if I could output a users avatar next to their comments in Wordpress. I've already integrated WP/vBulletin Bridge and all of my comments are now linked to the forums as well as show below my articles.

Unfortunately I haven't found a way to script pulling the users vBulletin avatar to an external page. Any suggestions?