[HOW TO] Add avatar to pages

[harmlessgoat22]

To show the avatar of the currently logged in user, follow these steps.

Open includes/functions.php

Find (around line 3880):

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    // Which timezone?
    $tz = ($user->data['user_id'] != ANONYMOUS) ? strval(doubleval($user->data['user_timezone'])) : strval(doubleval($config['board_timezone']));

After, add:

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    // Adding Avatar Variable
    
    $avatar_img = '';

    if ($user->data['user_avatar'])
        {
            switch ($user->data['user_avatar_type'])
            {
                case AVATAR_UPLOAD:
                $avatar_img = $phpbb_root_path . $config['avatar_path'] . '/';
                break;
        
                case AVATAR_GALLERY:
                $avatar_img = $phpbb_root_path . $config['avatar_gallery_path'] . '/';
                break;
            }
            $avatar_img .= $user->data['user_avatar'];
    
            $avatar_img = '<img src="' . $avatar_img . '" width="' . $user->data['user_avatar_width'] . '" height="' . $user->data['user_avatar_height'] . '" alt="" />';
    }


Next, find (should be pretty close to where you already are):

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'LAST_VISIT_DATE'                => sprintf($user->lang['YOU_LAST_VISIT'], $s_last_visit),

After it, add:

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'AVATAR'                        => $avatar_img,

It's that simple. And to add it to a template, just type in {AVATAR} and it will show up. However, it is suggested that you use

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<!-- IF S_USER_LOGGED_IN -->{AVATAR}<!-- ENDIF -->

because users not logged in will not have an avatar.

[Highway of Life]

I think this code should be a function... I found it was used 7 times in 8 files.
Bug submitted with DIFF file included.
We?ll see what they do... I?ve submitted this before.

[3Di Marco]

Should be updated this KB article, I guess. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's completely possible.

[jaunty_mellifluous]

I used that code on my site. It shows avatars that are linked off site but doesn't show any avatars that are uploaded onto my servers. Any ideas why?
http://forum.roadsout.com

[Highway of Life]

get_user_avatar() is the new function to use... the code shown on the first page is obsolete.

[jaunty_mellifluous]

Could you explain to me a little about how to use get_user_avatar()? All I have to do is place it to the place where I want the avatar to be displayed? I want to display it in the overallheader.html somewhere.

[harmlessgoat22]

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$template->assign_vars(array(
   'USER_AVATAR'            => get_user_avatar($user->data['user_avatar'], $user->data['user_avatar_type'], $user->data['user_avatar_width'], $user->data['user_avatar_height']),
));

That's the code for defining a template variable as the current logged in user's avatar.

[topdown]

I just noticed an issue with the function get_user_avatar
you can't use it in the header without including
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);
in the ucp.php otherwise it is undefined.

[Flick Stephen]

Okay I'm confused now, lol - it doesn't take much to do to be honest! lol
So the code in the first post no longer works, so what do I have to do to get this to work?

Edit: My appologise, I don't know what I was doing wrong. Just reinstalled the backup files and started again, and lo-and-behold its working. Great code, thank you very much!

[Flick Stephen]

Okay sorry for the double post, but this is sort of the old problem and not.
The code works perfectly everywhere but /blog.php (which will soon be the index page) I'm using this custom page to port my wordpress blog into phpbb3. The page works perfectly in phpbb3 before the user_avatar was added to my sidebar in phpbb3.

However now I get this error "Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_user_avatar() in /home/.dharma/breezeest/schola-draiochta.com/includes/functions.php on line 3753"

I've tried adding "include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);" into the wordpress functions.php but when I do I get the following error

Spoiler:

[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /wp-united/wp-functions.php on line 33: include(includes/functions_display.) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /wp-united/wp-functions.php on line 33: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/functions_display.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php')

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_user_avatar() in /home/.dharma/breezeest/schola-draiochta.com/includes/functions.php on line 3753

I'm assuming it's becuase I'm trying to use "$phpbb_root_path ." and haven't defined what that path is. I'm not sure how to define the phpbb3 path in wordpress. If it helps any my phpbb3 board is located in the root and wordpress is located in cms/wordpress but its also tied in with /wp-united/

Edit: I've just found that I' also get the following error when I goto the PM's section of the UCP.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare display_forums() (previously declared in /home/.dharma/breezeest/schola-draiochta.com/includes/functions_display.php:22) in /home/.dharma/breezeest/schola-draiochta.com/includes/functions_display.php on line 537