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#1 2007-07-17 12:07:04

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Best way to produce avatars to TXPhorum?

I’m using/developing the TXPhorum-forumplugin to be more operational. That’s for one Finnish upcoming webmagazine-site. I thought TXPhorum would be good workaround and forumsolution for that a mid-sized site. I have already implented the TXPhorum with many functions, like full-optional quoting, and other.

So next step would be avatars, but it shows to be a little complex. So, what would be a good base to make avatar-uploader and so-on? Some plugin or a another?

Last edited by Gocom (2007-07-17 16:13:59)

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#2 2007-07-17 18:34:57

benbruce
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Registered: 2006-01-13
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Re: Best way to produce avatars to TXPhorum?

Gocom,

I played around a little bit with Gravatars, which took care of all the uploading images and everything. Then I just inserted the code for the Gravatars into TXPhorum as a custom field or something1.

Second part — Are you going to release your changes to the world? If you can put together a package, I’ll put it up on the site so others can benefit from your work.

Third, can this move over to the support thread?

  • Ben

1 For profiles, my thinking was that when someone signs up for an account, a TXP article is created in section, “profiles” or whatever. Then they can update their profile on a special page, and that gives you room for whatever custom info you want, plus an article_image field, etc.

Last edited by benbruce (2007-07-17 19:25:42)

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#3 2007-07-17 21:51:19

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Re: Best way to produce avatars to TXPhorum?

Yep, I continue this to the support threard if I come up with something new to ask or something other. But now, when I started writing this reply… I shall continue with couple words:

Yes, I think I can put together a package that others can use – in upcoming months. Now I’m little busy and all work with TXPhorum is quite incomplete. All what I have done is really basic changes: Couple codestrings and ideas from BBCode, MiniBB (and other forumsoftwares) – and so-on.

Using Gravatars for a avatar-system sounds simple. I’m coing to look into it, thx :-)

Last edited by Gocom (2007-07-17 21:52:53)

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