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Hi,

I’m having an issue with the Alternative Members Syntax for Global Member Variables (explained here: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/globals/single_variables.html#alternative_syntax)

It says: All of the member variables may be used with the addition of the prefix “logged_in_”.

But I’m struggling to get this tag working, while the other ones shown on the list in the user guide do work:

{logged_in_avatar_url}

Does somebody knows a solution?
Thanks!

Diederik

Hi, Doudi - Can you give us a bit of the surrounding context? Is this inside a channel entries tag? The custom profile data tag? Or just… floating in the template?

Thank you!

Hi Lisa,

It’s in a comment form, just beneath a dynamic entries tag.
If I use {avatar_url}, the avatar of the article author is shown. I just want to show the avatar of the logged in user in the comment form.

Hi Doudi,

I think that may just be an unclear bit of the documentation, the list of the available variables that use the logged_in syntax are listed there and logged_in_avatar_url is not one of them unfortunately. However, you could use the Query Module to do this:

{exp:query sql="SELECT avatar_url FROM exp_members WHERE member_id = '{logged_in_member_id}'"}
path/to/images/avatars/uploads/{avatar_url}
{/exp:query}

Does that help?

Cheers

Greg

Well, no. But it’s heading in the good direction. There’s only one problem left: {logged_in_member_id} doesn’t get parsed into the query tag

{exp:query sql="SELECT avatar_filename FROM exp_members WHERE member_id = '{logged_in_member_id}'"}{/exp:query}

But it does get parsed outside the tag. Is there a solution for that?

Thanks!

Is this inside a channel entries tag, Doudi?  If not, can you try {member_id} in there?  Alternatively, you may need to use the custom profile data tag.