Some users experience problems with avatars, if you set the max height and width and there isn't one associated with an avatar, it'll skew them from loading. If you don't set a max height and width it'll display them as a 1x dot in IE...

The only *real* fix for this, is to not specify a height and width when loading the avatars...

This should be rather quick to do, and only short script mods. I will be updating this thread periodically when I notice other pages it needs applied to; so check back!

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Gizzy is my hero!

Thank YOU!

And my community thanks you!

hehehe...

BTW, I looked at the showprofile and userlist sections where the avatars are loaded, but they don't seem to specify a size; so those pages should be exempt from any editing afaik.

Actually, they do use the size function.

FYI, this only stops the pages from specifying the size, but it doesn't really fix the problem. When you take this out the avatars can be ANY size, which isn't good.

The solution here would be to change the getimagesize function (when I find it) and alter it to work properly.

I have a mod that did this properly and I can probably port the code pretty easily if I can find how/where to make the changes.

Fred

I found the problem/solution. It is a simple typo in the changebasic.inc.php file (in /scripts).

I outlined the change here: UBBCentral

For everyone that doesn't want to click on the link (and have to scroll down)...

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Basically it is a typo, changing 'UPLOADED_AVATAR_URL to 'UPLOADED_AVATAR_PATH.

Change this 1 line, resave the file and your gold, no need to change or remove any of the size stuff anywhere else.

Edit: One last thing, this only fixes the future avatars, any that are currently uploaded by the users need to be reuploaded. This is because a size of 80x80 is already "set" in the user database because with the typo it couldn't "find" the file to check for file sizes so it put the max (80x80). Having the users reupload their avatars after you make this change will correct it.

A good comprimise would be to apply both mods and leave the max avitar height and width set so future avitars do not go above them.

viewmessage.inc.php is affected as well with $picsize being set.

just an fyi