Is there an easy way to switch from using text "levels", the user category based on number of posts, to a graphic?

I'd like to use stars, I know it's not original but wanted to give it a shot.

You could use the existing titles and do something like the following on your templates:
Quick and dirty! But it should work.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Thanks Ivan, I'll tinker with it.

-Scott

Second option: you could probably also just introduce userlevels as follows:

1 => onestar.gif
5 => twostars.gif
50 => threestars.gif
1000 => fourstars.gif
1000000000 => manystars.gif

and then user something like <img src="<%user_level%>">.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Or just make an image that is called the same as the title, and then put:

<img src="/images/titles/<%user_title%>.gif">

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Gee, so many choices, thanks everybody

Is "include_post_display" the only template that would have to be so modified?

...off to make tiny little graphics.

Replying to my own post. If you do decide to go with graphical user levels, don't forget to create an "administrator.gif" graphic. Also, if you've manually added user titles to specific user profiles, you'll need likewise named graphics.

I gave it a whirl on my web site and I think I'm going to switch back to text based user levels. The effect wasn't bad, but I made the mistake of making "fancy" graphic for the admin...and the users didn't like their little stars in comparison

Thanks for all your suggestions on graphical user levels. What I'm going to do now is see about getting the Avatars up and running. If I recall a recent thread, all that was lacking was a user upload feature?

-Scott

Replying again to my own post.

If somebody out there does decide to go with graphical user levels. You will want to consider naming the graphics used to something you'd want to see in the User Profile - as the user level (and thus the graphic file name) will be repeated there.