Adding avatar on comments

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:07 pm

I am trying to display the posters avatar on the comments for the news module....

Does anyone have an idea of how to do this?

I've been goofing around with the comments.php in the news module with very little success... Thanks for any help...

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:25 pm

The avatar data is stored in one of the forums tables, possibly nukebb_users so if you have a look at one of the existing files like modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/viewtopic_body.php that might give you some idea of the sql call you would have to make to retrive that data.

Worker Joined: Sep 28, 2006 Posts: 241

I have seen many users try to make a sers avatar pop up in the PM, last topic posted, etc etc. Please back up first because you never know what it will do to your theme layout.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:21 pm

OK... I have it showing the avatar but it only shows the avatar of the person logged in on all the posts weather it's their post or not...
Heres the code I'm using:

Code:

/* Avatar call*/


    if ($userinfo['user_avatar_type'] == 1) {


        $userinfo['user_avatar'] = $board_config['avatar_path'].'./modules/Forums/images/avatars/'.$userinfo['user_avatar'];


    } elseif ($userinfo['user_avatar_type'] == 2) {


        $userinfo['user_avatar'] = $userinfo['user_avatar'];


    } else {


        $userinfo['user_avatar'] = $board_config['avatar_gallery_path'].'./modules/Forums/images/avatars/'.$userinfo['user_avatar'];


    }


    


        echo '<div class="content" >';


        echo '<img src="'.$userinfo['user_avatar'].'" alt="" />'."\n";

Does anyone know how to make it show the poster of the comment in comments.php? Or am I on the wrong track in what I'm doing?

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:29 pm

Well, your gonna have to get the username or user_id of the person who made the comment. Then do some SQL calls to get their avatar type and avatar data from the user table. You can see an example of how I do that in the Member_Map module (see my sig).

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:12 am

I believe I have it working now...
Thank you for your help....

In case anyone wants it... Here's the code to add avatar to news comments.

In modules/news/comments.php on line 645
find:

Code:

/* If you are admin you can see the Poster IP address */


         /* with this you can see who is flaming you...*/

Under add:

Code:

      


echo "<br />";





   if (($c_name != $anonymous)&&($c_name !=$anonymousname)) {





       $sql2 = "SELECT user_id,user_avatar FROM ".$prefix."_users WHERE username='$c_name'";





       $result2 = $db->sql_query($sql2);





       $row2 = $db->sql_fetchrow($result2);





      $avatar=$row2['user_avatar'];





      $user_id=intval($row2['user_id']);





      if ($avatar=="") {





echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"profile-.html$user_id\"><img alt src=\"modules/Forums/images/avatars/noimage.gif\" border =\"0\" width=\"35\" height=\"35\"></a>";





}





else





if (eregi("http://", $avatar)) {





echo"&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"forums.html?amp;file=profile&amp;mode=viewprofile&amp;u=$user_id\"><img alt src=\"$avatar\" border =\"0\"></a>";





}





else{





echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"forums.html?amp;file=profile&amp;mode=viewprofile&amp;u=$user_id\"><img alt src=\"modules/Forums/images/avatars/$avatar\"></a>";





}      


   }