UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Finished-[6.2-6.3] Forum Avatar's Version 1.3

Mod Name / Version: Forum Avatar's Version 1.3

Description: Allows your user's to select from a list of Avatar's set up by you. All Avatars are added or removed by you through the admin panel.

Working Under: UBB.Threads 6.2-6.3

Mod Status: Finished

Any pre-requisites: A licensed copy of UBBThreads 6.2 or 6.3

Author(s): Omegatron

Date: 06/22/03

Credits: Steve Stout (Aglavalin) for the original version in 6.0-6.1 , Scream for the page break feature.

Files Altered: editbasic.tmpl and admin/menu.php

New Files: avatars.php, useavatar.php, addavatar.php, removeavatar.php, doaddavatar.php, doremoveavatar.php

Database Altered: No

Info/Instructions:

Disclaimer: Please backup every file that you intend to modify.
If the modification modifies the database, it's a good idea to backup your database before doing so.

Note: If you modify your UBB.Threads code, you may be giving up your right for "official" support from Infopop.If you need official support, you'll need to restore unmodified files.

Thanks Chuck. I missed that one!!

Yeah Someone asked if It had been updated for 6.3 in the 6.2 version I did so about time I got it released here.

Yeah! Thank you!

Any chance we could get it to break into multiple pages? I have 300 avatars to choose from, and the page takes forever to load.



-peter

Yeah I will look into it.

Thank you!

Its posible to deleta all user av from Mysql ? becouse I whant instal this

You could but why would you want to?

Simply install this and upload what avatar's you want and then create a topic on your board that you have installed this. This places a link inside editbasic when they edit their profile to the avatar page. If you really want to delete all avatar's this should work.

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Picture = 'NULL'

Very nice Omegatron! Good work

Zip has been updated to break Avatar's into pages of 36 images for user's with extensive large avatar directories. All credit to Scream for this one. Asked for idea's on this one and he was gratious to just write it out.

Thank you sooooo much!!

-peter

I ran into an old problem where my avatar is displaying as 13 x 11..... The real graphic is much larger than that.

I tried going into my profile and then submitting again. Didn't fix it. But, it seems like it's fine for everyone else. I tested a couple older users out, and then registered a new account.

Any places I should look?

-peter

The avatar is set to 80x80 in this hack if it is larger. Your avatar sounds like it has hard coded numbers that will not change in the database. This has nothing to do with this hack. You can manually set your picture height and width with the following commands and see if that helps

UPDATE w3t_Users WHERE U_Username ='YOURNAME' SET U_PicHeight = 'yourpicheight'

UPDATE w3t_Users WHERE U_Username ='YOURNAME' SET U_PicWidth = 'yourpicwidth'

Sounds like your specific avatar has a few glitches

So, I'm getting this error when running the first thing

"Unable to do_query: UPDATE w3t_Users WHERE U_Username ='Allusivekudos' SET U_PicHeight = '60'
You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'WHERE U_Username ='Allusivekudos' SET U_PicHeight = '60' ' at line 2 row(s) affected by your query. "

Sorry for being difficult

You have the syntax of the command wrong. First is the SET statement and then the WHERE. So the query should be:

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_PicHeight = '60' WHERE U_Username = 'Allusivekudos';

If you want to do everything in one go you can use this command:

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_PicHeight = '60', U_PicWidth = '80' WHERE U_Username = 'Allusivekudos';

(provided that the height is 60 and the width is 80 - just made those numbers up)

You're a peach! Gracias Senor!

-peter

LOL Yeah OOPS yeah I had it backwards. Off to get some coffee.

No problem Peter.

He he Chuck. I already had a full cup that's why I caught that one

Yeah well I need another couple cups. I drink it all day long. My Problem was I was trying to answer his post before running out the door to take my daughter to Soccer Camp.

I don't know if he's a "peach". (We don't have one).

But he's an apple.

ROTFL!!!!

Thats about as close to a peach we have the good ole orange.

Someone needs to hunt down a peach graphic then dammit!



Yeah, well thanks to all of you guys. This community absolultely rocks. Seriously, I'm just amazed at how well it works and the spirit in which things get done around here.

We pretty much help each other and work togther pretty well. Each of us have our various skills and we pretty much help where we can and sometimes overlap. I usually get a kick out of the posts where each of us will answer a question on an issue and post a response and there are two answers of the same thing when each did not realized the other was posting a response. I get a chuckle out of that. Thats for the kudos.

I really don't like graemlins, but this one is so practical... =]

I was thinking, why not have the New post/reply/preview pages list the names of other people replying to the same thing? I don't like having to do unnecessary things, and I'm not about to check the Who's online every time I write a post. But if I'm starting to write an answer and see that Josh started writing a reply 3 minutes ago (well, that's usually the case =P) I'll just have another sip of coffee instead and wait for his reply. =]

You guys are a riot!

So, now I have an obnoxious question... Any chance we can get alt text for the avatars. One of my users spent some time putting together a set of avatars - famous people, and wants their name to be shown when people hover over the avatar, at least in the avatar gallery. Any possibility?

-peter

Okay yeah Josh is usually the first to answer. Zip file has been updated. The file name will now be shown if you mouse over it

The way this script works is to read the avatars folder for all the files and then display them accordingly. What you can do is use the file name as the ALT text stripping the extension. I cannot see any other way of doing this unless the filenames and descriptions are stored in a table in the database like the graemlins do.

Doh!

Chuck assumed Josh's role now!!

I did not quite strip the extention now Nikos I just placed $file in the alt tag.

There you go: You can use this function to grab the filename:

// Fet the file name
function Get_FileName($strFileName) {
$lngFileNameLength = strlen($strFileName) - 4;
$strReturn = substr($strFileName, 0, $lngFileNameLength);
return $strReturn;
}

See! You guys ROCK!

Thanks again!

I think I'm being made fun of in this thread. But I'm not sure.

Thanks for this

I just tried the mod and it works really well except the image name is missing when I view my http://www.neoitems.net/neohelp/editbasic.php?Cat= page All I see there is the path to the avatar directory (which does have all the right permissions). I am using UBB.threads™ 6.2.1.

Help?

Edit: I figured it out
Just added:

// -------------
// Get the input
$MyAvatar = get_input("MyAvatar","get");

in useavatar.php

Hola again!

This one is soooooooo great, though I've found a little buglet. If a user wishes to not have an avatar, I'm unsure how they can change it off. Is there a way? Or is this a bug?

-peter

Not sure if I've used this anywhere or not.... but if it rads the avatars from a directory.... try uploading a blank.gif (1x1 transparent gif)

not the most elegant... but probably a quick fix for you.

Yep, just did that.. Thanks!

Is this avatar setup included in 6.4 ? If so, probably should have a cleaner way of working things...

Also, one thing I just did that's pretty nifty is to wrap the avatar displayed on the my home with a link to the avatar.php page. Pretty simple, especially for newbies just joining to quickly get an avatar selected.

-peter

Peter sometimes in Threads we miss the obvious. All the Avatar script does is throw a picture into the person's picture field. While Josh's selection works the simpler more direct approach would be to edit your basic profile and clear the picture line and update your profile.

Totally!

I wasn't complaining really! I just thought this may be in 6.4.... And, I've just seen a lot of broken avatars lately and am not sure how that's happening... Then I noticed this and thought I should say something...


I still appreciate the hack muchly