Pretty urls for avatars.

[Dragosvr92]

The current phpbb format is like this:

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http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/download/file.php?avatar=95955_1312605181.jpg

Why?
If you will use the link to your avatar on a different phpbb forums, or wherever you would, the link to your avatar gets a new number and the link that you used on the x site becomes obselet. I think it would be a lot better if you would use the members username in the avatar url.

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http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/download/file.php?avatar=thekiller.jpg

[ecwpa]

Maybe using user's ID is a better idea than the username since some boards let users change ther name.

I'm guessing there's a practical reason for it includes the date it was uploaded. Maybe this way it let phpBB upload avatar and keep the previous one and then delete the older one.

[Dragosvr92]

Well, just the id would be good. I dont understand why do you have the date there. No one knows how to read a UNIX Time stamp anyways.

[imkingdavid]

Well, just the id would be good. I dont understand why do you have the date there. No one knows how to read a UNIX Time stamp anyways.

You're not supposed to be able to read the filename easily. IIRC the filename is garbled for security reasons, as well as to allow files with the same actual filename to be on the same server.

I don't see a problem with it as it is now.

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[Dragosvr92]

The problem i can see is that if i want to link my avatar to a separate forum, when i update my avatar, the link from the other forum would be obsellete and it will just dumb me a couple error logs.

[imkingdavid]

The problem i can see is that if i want to link my avatar to a separate forum, when i update my avatar, the link from the other forum would be obsellete and it will just dumb me a couple error logs.

You can upload the avatar on a free image host or your own server and then just link from there.

[Oleg]

Anything involving filenames of uploaded files requires a thorough security review due to msie helpfully interpreting files according to what content they have and not what their name is.