Showing an avatar in the CMS

[imnomarty]

Hello

I need to add an avatar to the articles of my site on request of the authors, but everything I have tried does not work.

I found something but I'm pretty sure it is outdated and does not work.

So please help me out.

[LifesGreatestGift]

Where exactly does the avatar need to show? Show us what you have tried, and what you found but is outdated.

[imnomarty]

http://thejestersgallery.com/index.php

if you take a look at the articles, I want the avatars to show above the publish information.

I have tried this link for vBulletin.com How-To: Add User Avatar to CMS Articles (i thought this was outdated)
This one shows a nice white box but no avatar image

ive also tired this code added to and img code, with no luck

PHP Code:

<img src="{vb:raw post.avatarurl}" 


[Lynne]

I got it to work by using this as the plugin code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');
if(self::VIEW_PAGE == $viewtype) {
$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($view->authorid, true);
if ($avatarurl[0]) $avatarurl = $avatarurl[0];

/* render template and register variables */
vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_content_article_page',array('avatarurl' => $avatarurl));
}

[Mr_Running]

I attempted this back in Sept 2011 and now today and the closest I get is just seeing the title Author Avatar and I have never seen the avatar image.

If anyone has a suggestion where to place the code...

<img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />

in the

vbcms_content_article_page

[imnomarty]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I got it to work by using this as the plugin code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');
if(self::VIEW_PAGE == $viewtype) {
$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($view->authorid, true);
if ($avatarurl[0]) $avatarurl = $avatarurl[0];

/* render template and register variables */
vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_content_article_page',array('avatarurl' => $avatarurl));
}

Would I change

vbcms_content_article_page

to

vbcms_content_article_preview

to use it were i want it?

[Lynne]

I just placed it where they spit out the authors name:

			<vb:if condition="$showuser">
<img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />
				<div class="article_username_container<vb:if condition="!$showrating">_full</vb:if>">
					{vb:rawphrase by_x_nolink, {vb:raw memberaction_dropdown}}
				</div>
			</vb:if>

However, it needs some styling, so you'll have to add some CSS to move things around. (Since I don't actually use this code, I never got that far.)

[imnomarty]

Hmm, its still not working. Do i have to enable something?

[lewisforlife]

Originally Posted by imnomarty

Hmm, its still not working. Do i have to enable something?

You do have to enable the plugin by going to Plugins & Products->Plugin Manager, scroll down to your plugin and enable it.


Lynne: This is working for me, now I also want to show the avatar on the CMS preview on the home page. What are the steps that I take to register the variable to work on: vbcms_content_article_preview?

Thanks.

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Nevermind, this worked:

vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_content_article_preview',array('avatarurl' => $avatarurl));

Now my question is, if the person has an avatar the avatar shows, if they don't have one, then text shows up that says: "Author Avatar". I do not want that text to show up, I would like to show a blank avatar picture if the user doesn't have one, sort of like what shows on the blog page if a user doesn't have an avatar. How would I accomplish this?

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I tried this:

<vb:if {vb:raw avatarurl}!="">


<br /><img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />&nbsp;<br />

<vb:else />

<img src="images/misc/unknown.gif" />

</vb:if>

but I get "an empty or invalid if condition was found. What is wrong with this, can you help me change this so that the unkown.gif shows if a user does not have an avatar? thanks.

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This worked, sorry I asked my question too soon:

<vb:if condition="$avatarurl != ''">


<br /><img src="{vb:raw avatarurl}" alt="Author Avatar" />&nbsp;<br />

<vb:else />

<br /><img src="images/misc/unknown.gif" />&nbsp;<br />

</vb:if>

[Lynne]

You could probably also just use this instead:

<vb:if condition="$avatarurl">

Thank you for posting your working code!