Avatar Gallery Hack

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Avatar Gallery Hack
Version 1.2.1
26/10/03

By Hwulex

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History
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One of the users on my board requested this earlier today, and rather than doing my uni work, thought I'd tuck into a bit of vBulletin.
Strange request, but it's interesting, and useful imo being able to browse through seeing who's using what.

All this hack does is display a list of your forum member's avatars.
Unlike v1.1, there is now only the one option; view only those with an avatar set.

This hack has not been tested on a large scale but worked perfectly on a local test installation of vB 2.3.2.


Working Example:
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At present, I do not have an online demo of version 1.2 of this hack working.
You can see version 1.1 of this hack working on my forums:
Xaprief Forum's Avatar Gallery.


Contents
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Contained in the .zip file are an example image, and instructions.txt (this file)
- instructions.txt -> Instructions for hack installation.
- example.gif -> Shows how the hack is used on the forum.


Use
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Tested on vBulletin 2.3.2

Files to modify:
- memberlist.php

Templates to modify:
- memberlist

Templates to add:
- memberavatarlist
- memberavatarlistbit

Estimated Install Time: 3 minutes.


Support:
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I am a full time university student reading computing so I'm not always available, but I will offer support as much as possible.


Contact:
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Email: vbhacks (at) hwulex (dot) com


Updates
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- 1.2.1: 2-per-page and if problem fixed.


Version History
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- 1.1 - Designed for vB 2.2.6, works up to 2.2.9.
- 1.2 - Fixed for 2.3.2, but two errors in code.
- 1.2.1 - Fixed errors from v1.2.


NB: If you do install this hack, please click on the INSTALL button. You will receive updates in your e-mail whenever I add new features to it. Also post a reply with your comments, they are appreciated.

[Alien]

Works perfectly fine on vB 2.3.0.

[gmarik]

Alien, than I give up.
Nothing at all worked on my 2.3
Even the profile was broken... (maybe my fault than or an older version of the hack)

[larryd]

Sweet, got it working..

You might want to change your directions to actually say add template at the bottom and not add replacement. That messed me up for a while.

Would it be possible to have it give you an option to remove the avatars from the gallery if your an admin? Like give it a yes/no toggle all set to yes for keep them but if you change it to no and submit it would set it to blank?

[larryd]

I think I can figure most of it out if someone can just tell me what the basic command is to turn a users avatar on or off.

[Hwulex]

05-15-03 at 01:03 AM Alien said this in Post #17
While playing with this, this hack when put into "show only users with avatars" mode will not work if you use general/non-custom avatars on your site.
*snip*
I hope this can be fixed, I won't be able to use this if it won't work with my 100 available avatars.

-Jason

I will try and rectify this problem when I have some time. Cheers for letting me know.

07-12-03 at 08:23 AM larryd said this in Post #23
Sweet, got it working..

You might want to change your directions to actually say add template at the bottom and not add replacement. That messed me up for a while.

Would it be possible to have it give you an option to remove the avatars from the gallery if your an admin? Like give it a yes/no toggle all set to yes for keep them but if you change it to no and submit it would set it to blank?

I don't understand about removing avatars as admin? Please elaborate and then I'll see what I can do.

I will also update the instructions to say 'template' instead of replacement, and will do some testing with 2.3.0, which so far I have had no time to do.

[Alien]

Thanks so much, I look forward to it.

-Jason

[Alien]

Any luck? I'm still interested in the fix when you're able.

[Hwulex]

Not as yet sorry, I've just moved house and am starting a new job on Monday.

Sorry.

[jdmuniverse]

Sweet!

Nice hack!

Thanks

[Alien]

Okay, thanks for the update. I look forward to when you have the time.