XF 1.1 custom avatar management

[ghiboz]

hi all!
I have this thing to do:
I wish that the avatar of my forum users was not availabe to modifying and point to a specific url like this:
http://myWebsite.com/avatars.php?uid=123 where uid is the user id from the forum..

how can I do this?
thanks in advance!

 

[Chris D]

Hi. Not sure I fully understand your requirements but this excellent add on allows you to display a users avatar by specifying their user id in the URL:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/avatar-php.634

It will allow you to get a users avatar with a URL like: http://mywebsite.com/avatars.php?uid=123

 

[ghiboz]

thanks Chris, but I need exactly the inverse thing: I wish that the user must not be able to select a personal avatar, 'cause is took by default from an url as shown above;
for simply the thing: suppose that you have a folder into a website with a .png file with the name equal to the id: for example in this forum: mine will be 3220.png, your 11388.png, and the avatar is exactly it

 

[Jake Bunce]

All avatars on the forum call on this function:

XenForo_Template_Helper_Core::helperAvatarHtml

You could modify that function to suit your needs.

edit - in this file:

library/XenForo/Template/Helper/Core.php

 

[ghiboz]

All avatars on the forum call on this function:

XenForo_Template_Helper_Core::helperAvatarHtml

You could modify that function to suit your needs.

edit - in this file:

library/XenForo/Template/Helper/Core.php

thanks Jake, so I need to modify brutally a file, no chance to build some plugin or similar

 

[Jake Bunce]

Yes you can put the code changes into a plugin. It still requires custom programming.

 

[ghiboz]

Yes you can put the code changes into a plugin. It still requires custom programming.

thanks, and where I can understand how to do this?

 

[Jake Bunce]

You need a programmer. That function takes in the user record and returns avatar html. You can modify it to check for and use the user_id to build the avatar html. If you are not a programmer then you can post a request:

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/custom-service-development-requests.69/

 

[ghiboz]

thanks... I'm a programmer, I know php, but the add-ons structure is dark for my mind

 

[feldon30]

Yeah I am trying to modify /library/XenForo/Template/Helper/Core.php to allow remotely-linked avatars. And before someone says "Why would you ever need remotely linked avatars?" I am dealing with a corporate client who does not want to allow uploads PERIOD.

I created a Custom User Profile Field named 'avatarurl'. That was the easy part.

So I tried to code the "right" way and use the helper function helperUserFieldValue() but after 1 hour of trying cannot get any variation on this to work:

$avatarurl = call_user_func(self::$helperCallbacks['userfieldvalue'], 'avatarurl', $user);​

So then I resorted to $user['customFields']['avatarurl']. This works great, except for those few places where $user['customFields'] is not set and the best you can hope for is $user['custom_fields'] which is serialized data. I'd rather not have to try to unpack and parse a serialized string if I can help it.

P.S. I wouldn't know where to begin writing this as a Plugin. I figure I'll be lucky just to get this working as a code hack.