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Oct 18, 2006, 3:33 PM

SandraR

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Oct 18, 2006, 3:33 PM

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Adding an Avatar

I added the column Avatar under USER – so people can select an avatar to represent the user when adding a link.

I tagged it <%if Avatar%><%Avatar%><%endif%>
The avatar will only show up in Dynamic mode and only when you’re logged in.

Can someone tell me what I missed?Thanks ;)

Sandra Roussel
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Oct 18, 2006, 4:19 PM

aus_dave

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Oct 18, 2006, 4:19 PM

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You will need a global to set this up - at the moment you are only looking up the avatar of the logged in user.

Assuming your avatars are stored in /images/avatars/, and you store the filename in a column called 'Avatar', you will need a tag in your template similar to this:

Code:
<img src="/images/avatars/<%avatar($LinkOwner)%>"/>

The you need a global called 'avatar' like so:

Code:
sub { 
  my $in = $_[0]; 
  my $user = $DB->table('Users')->select( ['Avatar'], {Username => $in } )->fetchrow; 
}

I adapted this from another global on one of my sites so hopefully it works for you Wink

Oct 18, 2006, 4:25 PM

fuzzy logic

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Oct 18, 2006, 4:25 PM

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User details aren't provided with the link record, IIRC. You'll need to use a global using the link's LinkOwner column as the foreign key to the Users table, then you can return the Avatar column.

How about having a global that does this:

Code:
sub { 
  my $user = shift; 
  my $valid = $DB->table("Users")->get($user); 

  return { LinkOwnerAvatar => $valid->{Avatar} }; 
}

<%getUserAvatar($LinkOwner)%>

I use LinkOwnerAvatar in the example above to differentiate the avatar of the logged in user from that of the link owner.

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