Resizing avatars

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Resizing avatars

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I'm currently redesigning our forum template but I've found that there's no way to resize avatars. There's a variable that calls avatars but won't let me resize them.

Within my theme I have a special design for the first post in order to have more space for it. Currently the first topic doesn't have any avatars because they were a bit too big. I still want to have them but there's no way to call avatars without touching phpBB code outside themes.

So I'm wondering if this is something you would consider if a RFC is made?
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This is a great idea for an extension. Dunno about a core feature... A core feature like this is not that bad, actually. I Just don't know if it is good enough.

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Quite a good suggestion. I think it would be good to do it the way it is done by Gravatar.

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http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460b479e2e5b48aec07710c08d50?s=200
The parameter s to denote the size of the avatar. Something like that would be good right?

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Wow, that works really great. Tried a lot of sizes and and still works, very

Now, the thing is most phpBB forums do not force users to have simmetrical avatars (100x100px, 150x150px etc). I'm not sure if this can be done without hug changes. Maybe using something like this?

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<!-- DEFINE $AVATAR_HEIGH = 100 --> 
<!-- DEFINE $AVATAR_WIDTH = 100 -->
Although, just getting the avatar route would be enough for me. I just need to resize them, and I could do it just with the file route.


Edit: That gravatar implementation sounds great for uploaded images too.
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You can do it via css. Add class to avatar container, like class="avatar", then in css add

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.avatar img { max-width: 100px; max-height: 100px; }

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Quick and simple :D Way to go Arty :)

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AliasM2K wrote:Quick and simple :D Way to go Arty :)
But that only solves the showing part. If it is a 1000x1000 image, the users will still download that huge image.

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Arty wrote:You can do it via css. Add class to avatar container, like class="avatar", then in css add

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.avatar img { max-width: 100px; max-height: 100px; }
Just tried that, doesn't work. It should but there's a problem, {postrow.POSTER_AVATAR} returns something like this:

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Since the avatar sizes are inline I can't really alter it via CSS. Same happens with {postrow.POST_AUTHOR_FULL} styling.
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ecwpa wrote:Just tried that, doesn't work. It should but there's a problem, {postrow.POSTER_AVATAR} returns something like this:
Did you add a class in CSS and declared it in HTML?
ecwpa wrote:Since the avatar sizes are inline I can't really alter it via CSS. Same happens with {postrow.POST_AUTHOR_FULL} styling.
I tested and it works perfectly. :geek:

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Yes, there was a class called. avatar already declared so I just added what artsy suggested. I'll check again if I did something wrong.
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