Avatars not showing up ?

New Member Joined: May 15, 2005 Posts: 10

Okay, I'm having some problems with the avatars not showing up anywhere on the forums. when I right click on the dead pictures and look at the url path it shows up like http://thegamingline.com/modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/gallery/002.gif the avatars are in the directory http://thegamingline.com/modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/002.gif

I'm having this problem with all the avatar catagories. How do I go about fixing this? I've searched the forums but nothing came up that would help me.

Crazzyt9 Twisted Evil

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have you checked these settings in forum admin..

Avatar Storage Path
Path under your phpBB root dir, e.g. images/avatars

Avatar Gallery Path
Path under your phpBB root dir for pre-loaded images, e.g. images/avatars/gallery

Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:21 pm

I left that default which is set to /images/avatars so I can have several galleries.

I've also noticed that I'm having problems with the user profiles not showing up. To see what I mean go to http://thegamingline.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=viewprofile&u=2

To top it of my Members list is not displaying members either!
http://thegamingline.com/modules.php?name=Members_List

Crazzyt9 Twisted Evil

New Member Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 13

do you have a blank index.html file...not sure but I believe this is nessasary for any sub folders to show up

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:08 am

Seems your mysql server is down at the moment.
You can NOT have more than one Gallery BUT you can have several folders UNDER that as the code searches for all folders under the gallery path set in the forum configuration.

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:33 am

Guardian2003 wrote:

You can NOT have more than one Gallery BUT you can have several folders UNDER that as the code searches for all folders under the gallery path set in the forum configuration.

This is what I met, but it seems that the guy I'm working for decided to work on mods at the same time as me, so we lost half the info on the forums as far as scripting ... lol This would be much funnier if i wasn't the one working on it Rolling Eyes

any ways so these aren't problems on the distro's part but on our part( or rather his ...) Any ways thanks for helping me though!

Crazzyt9 Twisted Evil

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:21 am

No problem.

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:50 am

I'm having a problem with some avatars not showing up in the the forums too.

Default phpbb configuration

Avatar storage path: modules/Forums/images/avatars
Avatar gallery path: modules/Forums/images/avatars

I have avatar paths that look like this:
modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery
modules/Forums/images/avatars/1_general
modules/Forums/images/avatars/2_animations
modules/Forums/images/avatars/3_art
modules/Forums/images/avatars/4_something
etc...

Avatars which live in the gallery and some of those other folders are working... but avatars living in other folders, like this one...
modules/Forums/images/avatars/7_PersonalPics are not working.

Very odd. So I just transferred one avatar from a not working gallery to a working gallery (changed the nuke_users record and ftp'd the pic) and it still didn't work. Then I went to my phpbb admin and turned on Enable remote and uploading ... and now they all work again.

Any thoughts?

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:14 am

Have you by any chance upgrade the forum version from that which is included with this distribution? I think this may be an issue with the 2.0.21 forum update.

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:22 am

I haven't upgraded anything... it's stock rn2.02 ... And I won't mod anything until after the next rn is released and I've upgraded to that.
However, this is an upgrade from 6.9 where I built a fresh rn and then fit the old user table into the new user table. Might there be something on or off, rather than off or on, in that table where there are a few avatar settings... ?

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:01 am

modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery
After looking at my installations, This is the correct place for The gallery, Now if you wou like to make Groups, Try this:

modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/Group1 or anything. If you dont put it in the gallery folder, the forums will be looking for uploaded images up there and thats why the other folders wont work. Basically, the forums are looking for the entire Gallery in the modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery folder, so anything you want to be in the gallery must be placed within that folder. It will go above that folder to upload images to that you allowed to be uploaded, That way the uploaded images wont get added to the Gallery.

To fix your issue cody, take all the folders That you have for extra gallery pictures and place them inside the Gallery folder.

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:12 am

It is possible.
Unfortunately I dont have a nuke 6.9 table schema to compare it against so I'm not sure how helpful I can be locating the problem.

I have checked my installation and have the same settings as the ones you posted.

The only thing I can think of (and its just a guess) is the gallery name you mentioned (7_Personal_Pics) has a combination of upper and lower case. You could try renaming the folder to use lower case only and see if that works - there may be something in the code that is 'assuming' the folder would only use lower case.

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:01 pm

I put a test gallery inside the gallery folder, but couldn't find a way to access it either from YA or Profile. And Gallery is mixed case without a problem.
The problem isn't finding the galleries where they should be, they are all visible as are the images inside them.
The problem is that the avatar becomes invisible when called from a forum post and turning on uploading and url pointing made them visible.

It's just odd. Thanks for your help.