If you allow guest posting in your Forums, then you may want to add this little hack in order for your Guest/Anonymous user to have an assigned default avatar.
To make this work do the following.
open
modules/Forums/viewtopic.php
Find this line
Code:
if ( $postrow[$i]['user_avatar_type'] && $poster_id != ANONYMOUS && $postrow[$i]['user_allowavatar'] )
change it to this
Code:
if ( $postrow[$i]['user_avatar_type'] && $postrow[$i]['user_allowavatar'] )
Now you need to assign an Avatar to the Anonymous user in the Database.
Go to your Database table
_users.
I recommend using
phpMyadmin
Browse the users and select the Anonymous. This is usually user_id number 1.
The
user_avatar field needs to be changed to whatever.gif (your guest avatar image name) Make sure you upload this Guest Avatar to both the
modules/Forums/images/avatars and
modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery folders just in case your pathing is screwy. :wink:
If it doesn't work up to this point then open
viewtopic.php and comment out or remove the following lines:
Code:
if ( $poster_id == ANONYMOUS )
{
$poster_avatar = '[img]'. $images['guest_avatar'] .'[/img]';
}
mikem
03-26-2012, 03:41 AM
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