Hey Raven: How do you change the users avatar?

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:19 am

On my site some users avatar is blank and i would like to change it. How is this done?

Some links say this:

http://www.porcupinepc.com/forums/modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/blank.gif

Some links say this:

http://www.porcupinepc.com/forums/modules/Forums/images/avatars/

You can see the top 10 posters on my site:

www.porcupinepc.com/forums

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

First of all, make sure that you copy blank.gif to
modules/Forums/images
modules/Forums/images/avatars
modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery

Then, to change a user's avatar, go into Forum Admnistration and select UserAdmin/Management. Then put the name of the user in the Select User block. Scroll to the bottom and select his avatar for him Smile

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:00 pm

Quote:

Then, to change a user's avatar, go into Forum Admnistration and select UserAdmin/Management. Then put the name of the user in the Select User block. Scroll to the bottom and select his avatar for him

I did as you mentioned and there was nothing there to allow me to change the avatar. All there was was the follwing:

Avatar control panel

Here you can see and delete the user's current avatar.
Current Image

Delete Image

A check box. Thats it.

Puzzling

Joe

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:50 pm

Sorry. I was thinking admins could change the avatar on that screen. Too many late nights Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:41 pm

would you happen to know of any other way to accomplish this?

Joe

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:55 pm

Try this. Using phpMyAdmin, edit the nuke_users table and change the user_avatar field of one of your users that is now blank to blank.gif. Check in Forum Admin to verify that it now shows up. If so, then use phpMyAdmin, select the SQL window, and issue this query

Code:

UPDATE nuke_users 


set user_avatar = 'blank.gif'


where user_avatar ='';

Make sure that you have copied blank.gif to the folders as I wrote before.

Be sure to back up the table beforehand!!

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:13 pm

cool. the code has worked. However, i still can't change the users avatar in the Admin screen. This would be a great add on in future versions.

Joe

www.porcupinepc.com/forums

registered · Worker Joined: Oct 06, 2003 Posts: 108

If I may....

All I did was create my own version of blank.gif and uploaded it to the directories mention above and each user that doesn't choose an avatar automatically gets assigned mine.

In retrospect, the member then chooses one more suitable to their profile. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:54 am

Thanks Frogger!

I uploaded my company logo (Porcupine)Works fine.
However, if you ever find a program that allows admins to change a users avatar, let me know.

Joe

www.porcupinepc.com/forums

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:57 am

You know you can just edit the users table and change it there, right? Also, you can use my MySQL Utility to make it even easier Wink

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:27 am

thanks Raven: thats all i wanted to know was how to change the avatar.

Joe