allowing avatar to only display once per thread?

[michealo]

i did multiple searches here and couldnt find anything to do this

my forum has a "journal" section where people start thier own specific thread, and only THEY can respond in that thread, with new entries.

it works fabulous, but it looks kinda rediculous seeing the same persons avatar the entire length of the thread with every reply

i just need the member's avatatar so show up for the 1st post and not any additional reply

i only need this done inside a specific sub-forum

thanks in advance

[michealo]

*bump*

anyone? thanks

[Tim Wheatley]

I'd be interested in this too if it's done.

C'mon - join the march people!

[Riddel]

hmm maybe you can make a special template for that forum and take out the avatars from the postbits all together?

[[D]Vincent]

There is an allow sigs once per thread, maybe someone could edit the code to work with avatars also.

[michealo]

one last hope

thanks

[Logician]

edit admin/functions.php, find:

PHP Code:

        if ($avatarurl=="" or ($bbuserinfo[userid]>0 and !($bbuserinfo[showavatars]))) {
            $post[avatar]="";
        } else {
            eval("\$post[avatar] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_avatar")."\";");
        } 


Replace it AS:

PHP Code:

$log_arr_post_userid=$post[userid];
if ($shown_avatar) {$testavatar1=in_array($log_arr_post_userid,$shown_avatar);}
if ($avatarurl=="" or ($forum[forumid]==X AND $testavatar1) or ($bbuserinfo[userid]>0 and !($bbuserinfo[showavatars]))) {
$post[avatar]="";
} else {
eval("\$post[avatar] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_avatar")."\";");
$shown_avatar[]=$post[userid];
unset($testavatar1);
} 


Replace X with your forumid in which you dont want multi-avatars of the same user..

In functions.php find:

PHP Code:

global $bbuserinfo,$session,$ignore,$cookietimeout; 


Replace it as:

PHP Code:

global $bbuserinfo,$session,$ignore,$cookietimeout,$shown_avatar; 


Edit showthread.php, find

PHP Code:

if ($action=="showpost") { 


after that add:

PHP Code:

$shown_avatar=array(); 


That's all..

[michealo]

Parse error: parse error in /home/sites/home/web/forums/admin/functions.php on line 160

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getuserinfo() in /home/sites/home/web/forums/admin/sessions.php on line 323

[Logician]

try now

[michealo]

thanks for all the help so far, logician

i tried the updated code, no errors this time BUT

i made sure i changed the forum id to 31, and checked that forum, and the avatars still display like normal in every post

i even made a test post in my thread, and my avatar still displayed