Avatar on homepage

This is what we use on the main page of this forum.
So many people liked it and asked for it, I posted it on at least 5 threads already, but someone wanted a proper release so here it is.

Anyway, in index.php add this:

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {
  $avatarurl=getavatarurl($bbuserinfo[userid]);
  if ($avatarurl=='') {
    $avatarurl='{imagesfolder}/noavatar.gif';
  }
  $avatarimage='<img src="'.$avatarurl.'">';
} else {
  $avatarimage='<a href="register.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=signup"><img src="{imagesfolder}/guestavatar.gif"></a>';
}

right after this:

$permissions=getpermissions();
if (!$permissions['canview']) {
	show_nopermission();
}

Now in any of your forumhome_xxx templates, you can use this:

$avatarimage

to display the user's avatar.

It will display the user's avatar if he has selected one, if he hasn't selected one it will show noavatar.gif (you'll need to upload that to your images folder), and if it's a guest, it will show guestavatar.gif, and link the image to register.php.

[Crinos]

LOL, I wish it was that easy - the whole process of putting it together is scattered althroughout several templates:

forumhome
forumhome_unregmessage
forumhome_welcometext
forumhome_logincode
forumhome_logoutcode
forumhome_pmloggedin

I'm afraid giving you just the forumhome template is not gonna be useful

Took me about 3-4 hours of trial and error just trying to put it together ... what I did was set up a "mock-up" page with the layout as I want it to be ... then I just insert the relevant code and then chop it up by the <tr>'s and insert each one in the templates I mentioned

[Jakeman]

oic. ok then... i'll manage

[trilOByte]

Hey man, I think I just posted what you are looking for. I installed it all together, then wrote a walkthrough of most of it for a friend, thought someone might find it usefull, so uploaded the zip here...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=32702

See my sig for a working example.

Even if it's not exactly what you are looking for, it should give you the *bones* to play with!

[trilOByte]

Thinking about it, I prolly should have posted it here - not sure about the protocol for such things

Anyway, I *think* I included all the edits

[Jakeman]

thanks

[Jakeman]

cool... check out my www link

[fiona]

Originally posted by JTMON
For some reason that code didn't work for me firefly. I just get a red x if I don't have an avatar selected, but no noavatar.gif. I have reuploaded the gif file twice too. Otherwise it works great.

have you checked the path to the image matches with what you have in index.php
ie mine is images/noavatar.gif

but in the code given by Firefly its

<img src="vbimages/noavatar.gif">

i had the same problem

[Gamingforce]

Really nice hack Firefly. I would install it but the default avatar size for our message board is 105x150 making the avatar take up too much board real estate. Awesome job though Firefly!

[JTMON]

Originally posted by fiona


i had the same problem

Well it's been images for me this whole time. I never saw vbimages. I changed the coding so if they don't have an avatar it gives them the no avatar but it's also linked to the edit avatar page

[westi]

Hi,

Originally posted by Matt
Is there anyway to encorporate this into a non-vb page?

include the follow global.php to your page...

PHP Code:

<?
// global.php
// Diese Datei ist f?r Webseiten die auf Funktionen eines vBulletin zugreifen
// wollen.
// Autor: westi (westi@ftpworld.org)
// Stand: v1.0 / 2001-12-02

$boardpath="/path/to/the/board";

unset($dbservertype);
//load config
require("$boardpath/admin/config.php");
require("$boardpath/admin/functions.php");

// init db **********************
// load db class
$dbservertype = strtolower($dbservertype);
$dbclassname="$boardpath/admin/db_$dbservertype.php";
require($dbclassname);

$DB_site=new DB_Sql_vb;
$DB_site->appname="vBulletin Control Panel";
$DB_site->appshortname="vBulletin (cp)";
$DB_site->database=$dbname;
$DB_site->server=$servername;
$DB_site->user=$dbusername;
$DB_site->password=$dbpassword;
$DB_site->connect();

$dbpassword="";
$DB_site->password="";
// end init db

// load options
$optionstemp=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT template FROM template WHERE title='options'");
eval($optionstemp[template]);
// ################ END INIT #################

if ($bbuserid!="") {
  $user=getuserinfo($bbuserid);
  $username=$user[username];
  $lastday=vbdate($dateformat,$user[lastvisit]+3600);
  $lasttime=vbdate($timeformat,$user[lastvisit]+3600);
  $templatesetid=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT templatesetid AS templatesetid FROM style WHERE styleid=$user[styleid]");
  $templatesetid=$templatesetid[templatesetid];

  $avatarurl=getavatarurl($user[userid]);
  if ($avatarurl=='') {
    $avatarurl='images/noavatar.gif';
  }
  $avatarimage='<a href="'.$bburl.'/member.php3?action=editavatar"><img src="'.$bburl.'/'.$avatarurl.'" border="0"></a>';
} else {
  $avatarimage='<a href="'.$bburl.'/register.php?action=signup"><img src="'.$bburl.'/images/guestavatar.gif" border="0"></a>';
}

}

?>

greets,
westi