[Tip/Trick] Making a "real" default avatar (Eg: without editing templates)

[N3RVE]

Perhaps, you should try the mod instead?

-[n3rve]

[C4G-TK]

The .png should go into: Themes/"your theme"/images/   and not just Themes/"your theme" as in the first post.  At least, that's where I placed it in order for it to appear correctly.

[Nier]

I did exacly what was said in first post: The file load, searched and replaced it. Saved it. Upload a default_avatar.png to my theme map. Nothing happend if i dont select a avatar..

[curlin]

     Hello

  This works in the posts but it is not showing in my "newest member" simple portal block. Could you tell me what to add below? Thanks!.

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global $context, $memberContext, $modSettings, $color_profile;

   $latest_member_id = $context['common_stats']['latest_member']['id'];
   loadMemberData($latest_member_id);
   loadMemberContext($latest_member_id);

   echo '
   <div style="text-align: center;">';

   if (!empty($memberContext[$latest_member_id]['avatar']['href']))
      echo '
      <img src="'.$memberContext[$latest_member_id]['avatar']['href'].'" alt="" width="60" /><br />';

   echo '
      ', $memberContext[$latest_member_id]['link'], '
   </div>';

[Veliki Brat]

Hi

In my case only admin see default_avatar no one else? How come?

[flapjack]

I just came up with an idea: use default_avatar.png as a background for where avatar is being displayed. one small css change. however it's not 100% foolproof, when user's avatar will not be standard size, it will not look pretty

[sona67]

Hi

In my case only admin see default_avatar no one else? How come?

same problem. This edit doesn't work. I'm using 1.1.13

[pearpandas]

This is awesome!  I'm gonna use it in my website right now!

[Xarcell]

How come this doesn't work in the index.template.php, it works everywhere else?

[Antechinus]

Not sure. It should. Have you got any weird code there?

[Xarcell]

I think it's because member is not defined for some reason. I will attempt to debug...

[Xarcell]

I have attempted to debug, but the default avatar just doesn't load in the header of the index.template.php file. Error log says:

Undefined index: image
in whatever template file is being viewed

Using:

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', $context['user']['avatar']['image'], '

[Arantor]

Probably because it's not declared there, and that you need to modify the separate loading of the avatar for the current user, IIRC that's in Load.php instead.

[drewactual]

this is a nice little trick to use!!!!

however, and I don't know if it's something that has changed in the decade since it was first posted, this needs to be altered from:

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if (empty($memberContext[$user]['avatar']['image']))
$memberContext[$user]['avatar']['image'] = '<img src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/default_avatar.png" alt="Default Avatar" title="Default Avatar" width="' . $avatar_width . '" height="' . $avatar_height . '" />';



to:

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if (empty($memberContext[$user]['avatar']['image']))
$memberContext[$user]['avatar']['image'] = '<img src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/default_avatar.png" alt="Default Avatar" title="Default Avatar" ' . $avatar_width . ' ' . $avatar_height . ' />';

/


as the admin section settings already appends the

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width="{whatever pixel you set}" height="[whatever pixel you set}"


and will render:

....... width=" width="{whatever pixel you set}""  height=" height="{whatever pixel you set}""

just a PSA!!!  thanks for the tip whomever wrote the original!!!

[Arantor]

It's also implemented in 2.1 in a slightly different way.