profile picture ONLY on first post.

[ralphuk100]

I want to set up my news forum so that an avatar/profile picture ONLY appears on the first post - any post after this will be a user reply. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

[CarCdr]

Modify your postbit template(s). From Xenon's idea:

<if condition="$post['postid'] == $threadinfo['firstpostid']">
first post special handling code
<else />
other posts/normal code
</if>

[ralphuk100]

Thanks. I tried putting it at the top of postbit but it thinks even the first post is an additional post. See code I used below:

<if condition="$post['postid'] == $threadinfo['firstpostid']">
This is the first post with avatar and other stuff
<else />
this is where the replies will go.
</if>

[CarCdr]

Hmmm... I expect that "$threadinfo['firstpostid']" is not available to the template.

You could verify by simply including (outputting) the value in a test postbit page to see if it is set.

[ralphuk100]

Could I just not use if postcount==1 then .... else?

[CarCdr]

No. Those numbers are not guaranteed to reflect the actual position of a post in a thread.

It should easy to modify showthread.php to set something like "$show[firstpostinfo]", but I think it would be worthwhile to do the test I mentioned earlier.

[ralphuk100]

I put $threadinfo[firstpostid] in my postbit (I can do it on the one I am using as its a test db) and nothing was displayed....how do I get it into the thread? I thought firstpostid would be global??