Making a variable work everywhere

[BigJohnny]

I have a default avatar plugin installed, which allows me to put $avatarnavbits to display a noavatar.gif where I put it.

It seems to work everywhere until just recently when I installed CMPS, it still shows everywhere, except when on the CMPS index. I can put it in if I hard code the url, but I would prefer to just use the variable already created.

the plugin is set to global_start as it's the only hook where it seems to work.

Any ideas how to make it work on CMPS?

[Hell Bomb]

We need more details, like CMPS and vBulletin number and Link to the mod

[BigJohnny]

whoops, my bad, I'm running vB 3.8.3, and CMPS 3.2.2

The mod I have no idea about, it's an old one, default avatar, it's just 2 plugins.

One for default avatar, and one for avatar in navbar.

Default Avatar - postbit_display_complete

if (!$this->post['avatarurl'])
{
$this->post['avatarurl'] = "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/noavatar.gif";
}
if ($this->registry->userinfo['showavatars']) 
{
$show['avatar'] = true;
}

Avatar In Navbar - global_start

// Avatar In NavBar
if ($vbulletin->userinfo['avatarid']) 
{ 
	// using a predefined avatar 
	$avatar = $db->query_first("SELECT avatarpath FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "avatar WHERE avatarid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo[avatarid] . ""); 
	$avatarid = $avatar['avatarid']; 
	$navbaravatar = "<img src=\"" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . "/$avatar[avatarpath]\" alt=\"Your Avatar\" border=\"0\" />"; 
} 
else 
{ 
	// not using a predefined avatar, check for custom 
	if ($avatar = $db->query_first("SELECT dateline, userid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "customavatar WHERE userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] . "")) 
	{ 
		// using a custom avatar 
		$navbaravatarurl = ($vbulletin->options['usefileavatar']) ? "" . $vbulletin->options[avatarurl] . "/avatar$avatar[userid]_" . $vbulletin->userinfo[avatarrevision] . ".gif" : "" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . "/image.php?u=" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . "&amp;dateline=" . $avatar['dateline'] . "";
		$navbaravatar = "<img src=\"$navbaravatarurl\" alt=\"Your Avatar\" border=\"0\" />";
	} 
	else
	{ 
		// no avatar specified 
		$nouseavatarchecked = HTML_CHECKED; 
		$avatarchecked[0] = ''; 
		$navbaravatar = "<img src=\"$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/noavatar.gif\" alt=\"Your Avatar\" border=\"0\" />"; // "<span class=\"smallfont\">No Avatar<br/ >Specified</span>";
	} 
} 
// Avatar In NavBar

[BigJohnny]

anyone?? this can't be that hard.

[kh99]

You could try going to vBa CMPS -> Default Settings -> Main Options -> Portal Output Global Variables and entering the variable name there.

[BigJohnny]

buddy, that's awesome, I had no idea you could do that. it seems to be working fine now. and that's definitely something I should know.

Thanks man