avatars getting deleted

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Posts: 2

I upgraded from 6.0 with phpBB installed to 6.6 using the Nuke Cops' nukeSQL.

Now, when a user tries to change his avatar, the change does not get effect and the old avatar gets deleted from the server!

How can I fix this problem?

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

I'm having the same problem. Ever since I upgraded, a number of avatars have been deleted and their path name is just www.mywebsite.com
Is there a way to fix this?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:10 am

I am having a similar issue but it is only with the default avatar which ive tried putting in three places a directory out sdie the main in avatars and in avatars/gallery and they show up as broken images and i cant seem to figure out a look at the database says they point to "gallery/blank.gif" without the quotes. Remote and uploaded avs work fine though Sad

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:29 am

ok i did some tweaking and now i have one person whos images are resolving "modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/blank.gif" and anothers who is just resolving to "gallery/blank.gif"

The crazy thing if you look at the dbase with phpmyadmin they both say gallery/blank.gif in the user_avatar field any ideas ?

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

It seems weird because people that already had avatars are losing them, while the path is clearly wrong.
Which file did you edit?

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:56 am

I personally didnt edit a single file. they were working before i upgraded to 6.7

the uploaded avatars work and the remote link ones work as well

the crazy thing is that this is just the blank.gif new users fail to load properly as well Sad

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 9:20 am

Save a backup copy of usercp_avatar.php and then edit one of the copies:
find:

Code:

function user_avatar_delete($avatar_type, $avatar_file)
{
global $board_config, $userdata;

if ( $avatar_type == USER_AVATAR_UPLOAD && $avatar_file != '' )

change to:

Code:

function user_avatar_delete($avatar_type, $avatar_file)
{
global $board_config, $userdata;

if ( $avatar_type == USER_AVATAR_UPLOAD && ($avatar_file != '' and $avatar_file != 'blank.gif') )

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 9:42 am

actually i think i have the problem fixed, it seems a couple of the users had "gallery/blank.gif" but not user_avatar_type as 3 (one was 2 another was 0) Changing those to 3 seems to have ammended the problem. Thank God I figured it out I will watch it over the next few days before i try your tweak chatserv thanks anyways Smile

edit

actually that sounds like a tweak i want so i went ahead and used it Smile

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I only allow remote linking, and for some people that were linking before the upgrade, their avatars are missing with the path of my site.
In addition, new members are having the same problem too-they are getting the broken image with the path of the site.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 10:19 am

hrm.... make sure its enabled in youf forum configuration?

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

Feret wrote:

hrm.... make sure its enabled in youf forum configuration?

Yes, of course it is. Smile

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 3:00 pm

this is most odd but maybe your host doesnt support such linking? dunno

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

Feret wrote:

this is most odd but maybe your host doesnt support such linking? dunno

It worked perfectly before the upgrade.

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

Ok, for some reason it looks like its been fixed....after looking into every file, it seems that the viewtopic.php file was the problem.
In that file the code is:

Code:

// Default Avatar MOD - Begin
//
if ( empty($poster_avatar) && $poster_id != ANONYMOUS)
{
$poster_avatar = '<img src="'. $images['default_avatar'] .'" alt="" border="0" />';
}
if ( $poster_id == ANONYMOUS )
{
$poster_avatar = '<img src="'. $images['guest_avatar'] .'" alt="" border="0" />';
}
//
// Default Avatar MOD - End

I'm not sure what that code is there for, but it seems to be giving an incorrect path for users with no avatar.

Private Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Posts: 46

so what should we be changing the code to?