How to display user pictures/avatar?

triddent222

Hi everyone,
What's the smarty tag to display an user avatar? In a related question, the Gravatar plugin doesn't seem to work in the Profile view. Is there any fix for that?

peregrine

Try scanning some my other questions - messages on the page relating to Smarty. Sometimes your answer is other user's questions . My attempt to change "user question myopia" where they focus only on questions they want answered.

johansonlocker

                  $HTTPS = GetValue('HTTPS', $_SERVER, '');
                  $Protocol =  (strlen($HTTPS) || GetValue('SERVER_PORT', $_SERVER) == 443) ? 'https://secure.' : 'http://www.';

                  $url = $Protocol.'gravatar.com/avatar.php?'           
                     .'gravatar_id='.md5(strtolower($Row->Email))
                     .'&d=monsterid'
                     .'&size='.C('Garden.Thumbnail.Width', 50);   

echo '<img src="'.$url.'" class="ProfilePhotoSmall"/>';

triddent222

Hi @johansonlocker. Thanks for the quick response. I'm completely new to Vanilla, and honestly, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with your code.

I'm modifying the default.master.tpl view, and as far as I've been able to deduce, I can't use PHP code in there.

What I'm trying to do is to have a small banner in my forum saying "Welcome [User Name]", displaying their Profile pic (preferably Gravatar), and links to their profile, inbox, etc.
I have found ways to display user name {$User.Name}, I know how to print out the profile links, but I can't seem to find how to display the User's profile pic.

Any help would be appreciated.

johansonlocker

Hi, @triddent222

really I don't remember any banners with welcome text for user in forum. maybe because i use login integration with site? hm..

At first try to find the file in \forum\ directory where You see these strings or a place where variable with the text is coded in php.

triddent222

Oh I see. What site are you integrating with? I tried to embed my forum in Wordpress, but I got so many issues I thought it wasn't worth it. Do you know of any guides that could help me with embedding the forum? I think that would make what I'm trying to do much easier.

Thanks!

johansonlocker

hand-made site, i use deprecated plugin http://vanillaforums.org/addon/proxyconnect-plugin

peregrine

triddent222 said:
Oh I see. What site are you integrating with? I tried to embed my forum in Wordpress, but I got so many issues I thought it wasn't worth it. Do you know of any guides that could help me with embedding the forum? I think that would make what I'm trying to do much easier.>

Thanks!>

If you don't need to embed - I would avoid it - you will be much happier.

triddent222

johansonlocker said:
hand-made site, i use deprecated plugin http://vanillaforums.org/addon/proxyconnect-plugin

Yes, I tried both JsConnect and Proxyconnect with Wordpress, and Proxyconnect works 'better'.

peregrine said:

If you don't need to embed - I would avoid it - you will be much happier.

That was my same conclusion .

Anyway, is there a Smarty tag to display profile pics? Or can I create a new {asset} to include some PHP into my template?

peregrine

Try scanning some my other questions - messages on the page relating to Smarty. Sometimes your answer is other user's questions . My attempt to change "user question myopia" where they focus only on questions they want answered.