[MarkFL]

Hello all,

I am using vBulletin 4.2.1 on my local server as my dev site, and once done, I will go live with this on the forum I help administrate which runs vBulletin 4.2.2 patch level 2.

I am doing some custom hacks to Valter's great chatbox, and I am stumped on how to display user avatars. We use the file system to store our avatars, so I cannot use the image.php?u=userid method.

So, I have written a plugin, hook location is parse_templates, with the plugin PHP code:

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Now, what I get is my avatar in every posted message, instead of the avatars of the users who actually posted the various messages. Can anyone tell me what I am missing?

I found the solution to my problem!

Instead of creating a new plugin, I hacked an existing one. I opened the plugin titled "VSa - ChatBox - MN" and located the line:

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And after that, inserted the code:

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Save the plugin, and then in the template "vsa_chatbox_bit" you may use "{vb:raw user_avatar}" to display the user avatars.

[Lynne]

Thank you for posting the solution to your problem. Hopefully it will help someone else who has the same issue.

[chikuru]

Thank you for this! I was also trying to code this.

[M.C.]

thanks, great addon!

[TheLastSuperman]

Moved to articles . Also made second post the first post then pasted old first post code into second with strike-through - for reference only .

[GHRake]

This is an awesome article, thank you!

In the img tag I set height="20" width="20" and it looks great with 14px text height



And if anyone was wondering where to place {vb:raw user_avatar} inside the vsa_chatbox_bit template, find:

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And replace with:

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[MarkFL]

I kind of went wild when I was learning javascript and made quite a few changes to the chat:

[GHRake]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I kind of went wild

Yes you did! Site looks great BTW

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by GHRake

Yes you did! Site looks great BTW

Thank you! The style was done by a hired designer, and we have added a lot of bells and whistles.

[BliNeR-KeY]

i use
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=268618

i cant set 20x20

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maybe you have code only for chatbox ?

[MarkFL]

This article is about adding avatars to "VSa - Chatbox" not to the forumdisplay or other areas.

[BliNeR-KeY]

pls check is so big 80x80
http://prntscr.com/b6ezvd
i just add

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[MarkFL]

Change this line:

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to suit your needs.

[BliNeR-KeY]

thank you so much fixed

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see

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