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.

[Hwulex]

Screenshot:

[ULTIMATESSJ]

heh nice, i might install this sometime

[Velocd]

Cool idea, it beats what vB3 is currently trying to do by showing avatars within the memberlist page, which simply makes it look too cramped and a bit tacky. This works good though

[high]* Velocd clicks install
[/high]

My only suggestion is to add the "memberlist" bar on the avatars page for searching through users by the first letter in their username.

[JulianD]

Very nice! thanks!

[Hwulex]

Thanks for comments guys

Velocd: I did think about having that as well, but wasn't appropriate for the size of the forums that I run. I may add it if people would like, a good idea for larger forums I suppose
Nice forums there mate btw. I see you've also got my forum rules update installed too, cheers

[WitchyT]

Looks great. Going to install it soon.

ETA: Looks perfect! *clicks install*

[Dean C]

Wow that's very nice looking buddy !

Good job

Regards

- miSt

[WitchyT]

I get this message when I try to click on a member's profile through the gallery.

This user has not registered and therefore does not have a profile to view.

Clicking mods profile works okay for me. Any idea what's wrong?

[Hwulex]

Well spotted, cheers WitchyT.

After looking at my own, what seems to be happening is it doesn't have the $userid set on the end of the link. I'll take a look now why not.
Clicking anyone that has an avatar works, but those that don't, doesn't. Strange.