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I use the “since last visit” plugin and was wondering if there was a way to show a member’s avatar, next to their name, when logged in?  I have the name part working just fine, but the avatar only seems to work inside a comments tag.

TIA.

Hi!

I use a different plugin for this… check it out!

Who’s online.

That’s not quite what I want to do, but thank you for the suggestion.

Well, if you have the member name, what’s keeping from getting the avatar from the db directly?

What I’m trying to accomplish (and I saw this on another EE blog, but the site owner won’t tell me how he did it) is:

1. Use the “since last visit” code to show the posts and comments since the member last logged in..with “Hi { screen_name } manually added to make it more personal.

2. Have the member’s avatar appear in this code block.  So far, nothing I’ve tried has worked. It simply doesn’t show up. The { avatar _url } doesn’t work outside of the comments tag, apparently.

I want it to look like this..

{ avatar }
Hi { screen_name }
Posts since..
Comments since..
Last visit at..

I’m sure there’s a simple solution to this, but I’m not seeing it.

So..that’s what I’m trying to do.

Help.

Check out wiki:// Avatar of Current User.

Followed all of the directions, ended up with a broken image, even after trying different paths.

Think I’m going to give up on it, as it has me so frustrated. Thank you for trying to help.

Well I just got it to work on my site:

<?php 
global $SESS; 
$member_id = $SESS->userdata['member_id']; 
?> 

{exp:query sql="SELECT avatar_filename, avatar_width, avatar_height FROM exp_members WHERE member_id = <?php echo $member_id; ?>"} 
{if avatar_filename !=""} 
<a href="http://{path=forums/member/profile}">http://www.lisajill.net/images/avatars/{avatar_filename}</a> 
{/if} 

{if avatar_filename ==""} 
<a href="http://{path=forums/member/profile}">http://www.lisajill.net/images/avatars/forum_themes/default/images/icon_profile.gif</a>
<span>No Avatar Selected</span>
 
{/if} 
{/exp:query}

Exact cut and paste from the working setup -all is default except my domain. If you don’t run the forums you will want to point to something like member/profile rather than forums/member/profile, etc.

I still think the additional plugin (Who’s Online) along with Since last visit would work… maybe something like this?

The code would need to be tidied up, but I believe it would get the data you want…

Actually, I got it working…I had messed up the image path, before.

Thanks so much for your help, Daniel.  Much appreciated.  😊