Main Index Avatars / Member IP displaying?

-Om- · July 24th, 2008, 07:46 PM

Main Index - My Photo Gallery

Could use a little help, please.

1) On my Main Index, I can't figure out why Category Avatars are showing for some categories, but not others. I have the Index Options for that function set to "yes" ... and don't see that there's an option to show them or not within each category in the Category Editor ... so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

2) Also can't find how to edit the way users profiles are appearing in the Photo Details module for their posted pics. It's currently displaying the user's IP and not avatar or sig. Only admin panel access I've been able to find with any control over these functions is the Show Photo Options menu, where I have Show Avatars? set to "yes."

Something obvious I'm missing in both cases?

Chuck S · July 24th, 2008, 07:56 PM

Categories that do not contain actual images can not have a category avatar

There is also a show signature setting in admin options as well. As far as avatar I need to see an example of one that is not displaying.

-Om- · July 24th, 2008, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Categories that do not contain actual images can not have a category avatar

Well ... yeah.

I also have categories that contain images where the avatar isn't displaying.

Quote:

There is also a show signature setting in admin options as well. As far as avatar I need to see an example of one that is not displaying.

None of them are showing, Chuck. All are displaying like this:

Yellowstone - My Photo Gallery

As to sigs, thanks, saw that. I've just opted to not show those.

-Om- · July 25th, 2008, 07:21 AM

Just realized the "IP address displaying" thing is just my own stupidity. I was viewing while logged in as an admin. When viewing as guest or member IP numbers are not visible. Dumb.

Still no idea about the other 2 issues though.

- Some categories with photos posted display category avatars and others do not. Cannot find anywhere that I have set different settings for certain categories.

- still no user avatars diplaying. Sometimes get the dreaded red X, other times simply no display at all. Of the 2 would prefer the latter ... first preference obviously would be so see the avatar displayed. Understand from poking around here this is an issue that led to a hack being written? Is there a version I can grab to apply the fix on my own?

Chuck S · July 25th, 2008, 11:31 AM

You can try making sure your get_profiledata function in vb3.php is this??

Code:

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Chuck S · July 25th, 2008, 11:33 AM

Try uploading a photo to a category that does not have an avatar

-Om- · July 26th, 2008, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can try making sure your get_profiledata function in vb3.php is this??

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Thanks, will work on that once I'm brave enough.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Try uploading a photo to a category that does not have an avatar

As to this one, I had done that previously, and uploaded additional pics since. As you can see, still no dice on several categories with pics. Still can't find any difference in how I've set them up or in the kinds of pics being uploaded.

Main Index - TN Photo Gallery

Chuck S · July 26th, 2008, 04:51 PM

Well looking at the code there has to be a result saved in the categories table as the thumbnail perhaps a photo you deleted?

If you run this query in phpmyadmin what is the result

SELECT thumbnail FROM pp_categories WHERE id=535

-Om- · July 27th, 2008, 08:23 PM

You may be right about deleted pics. I definitely cut a few while setting things up. Had no idea it would affect the thumbnails for that category in perpetuity though. Pretty harsh learning curve.

Also afraid you're giving me too much tech credit. Not even sure where phpmyadmin is, much less how to query it. Tempted to shortcut this by simply recreating the affected categories from scratch.

Chuck S · July 28th, 2008, 09:09 AM

Okay in that category try viewing a photo in that category and hit MAKE INDEX THUMB does it update the cat variable.

-Om- · July 28th, 2008, 10:04 AM

Please tell me you just added that button while I wasn't looking.

Swear to [insert Deity-of-Choice here] I looked at every conceivable link there was before coming on here.

Sigh.

Thank you sir. Again.

Chuck S · July 28th, 2008, 10:33 AM

LOL No I cant add anything to your site it was always there when your an admin

-Om- · July 28th, 2008, 01:52 PM

I was afraid of that.

To add to my humlility level even more ... could you kindly direct me toward where to access my "get_profiledata function in vb3.php"? I looked in the various places I thought it oughta be. Promise.

Chuck S · July 28th, 2008, 02:10 PM

it is right in the vb3.php file in the forums subdirectory of our product. It is like the 4th function down in that file.

-Om- · July 28th, 2008, 10:14 PM

Unfortunately, that wasn't it. Replaced the existing [function get_profiledata( $cuserid ) ....] block with the one you provided above into vb3.php, but no change. Still no user avatars appearing.

Not a big concern really ... just something I'd like to resolve eventually.

Chuck S · July 28th, 2008, 11:45 PM

yeah I would need more about your site url ftp login etc to say more about this.