XF 2.0 Need to grab user avatar

[indepth]

I need to grab the user avatar for an external settings page. What is the correct way to do this?

It seems especially tricky since the default "avatar" is the letter in the users name and a random color.

If it helps I already have an instance of XF running on this external page load.

 

[S Thomas]

Do you need the avatar, completely parsed, or just the avatar url?
If you just need the url, you could do sth like

\XF::app()->visitor()->getAvatarUrl("l"); // swap "l" out for the size

You might want to check getAvatarType() first, in case it's an gravatar, so you can fetch the avatar with getGravatarUrl() instead.

 

[indepth]

Just the URL. So that should work.

One question, what will it return if the user has not yet set an avatar and just has the letter w/ the random color?

 

[S Thomas]

Check out src/XF/Entity/User. Actually, you don't even need to check for gravatar, that's done within the function.