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Avatar for Amonymous [message #162336]

Tue, 27 April 2010 11:38

picklock

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Registered: April 2010

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Is there a simple way to display avatar for Guests?
Tried to assign it in Guest's profile with no luck Sad

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Re: Avatar for Amonymous [message #162337 is a reply to message #162336]

Tue, 27 April 2010 15:42

The Witcher

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Registered: May 2009
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Interesting question!

How did you access the "Guest profile"?

I had considered this once before but never finished looking into it.

The anonymous user is installed on setup and does not have an actual profile I can access from the members list; it does however have a field in the SQL database.

I thought that perhaps one could be installed through there by changing the
(avatar value )

and the (avatar_loc value)

The needed Avatar path would be something like

 <img src="http://Domain.Name/images/avatars/smiley03.jpg" alt="" width="64" height="64" />

depending on what avatar you wished to use, or if it was custom or uploaded.

I made one failed attempt at it and quit figuring it wasn't really worth my time and effort since I seldom allow anonymous posts (too much trouble). However just because I did not succeed does not mean it can't be done or would not work.

If I were to try it again I would go the same route and look into the rest of the permissions setup for the anonymous and registered user's masks for a conflict.

But I am not even sure if it would or could work even then without some sort of patch or modification to the PHP.

If you figure it out let us know.

"I'm a Witcher, I solve human problems; not always using a sword!"

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Re: Avatar for Amonymous [message #162338 is a reply to message #162337]

Tue, 27 April 2010 17:41

naudefj

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Anonymous posts are stored with poster_id=0, but the anonymous user is id=1.

To see avatars, execute: UPDATE fud30_msg SET poster_id=1 WHERE poster_id=0;

I'm not the original developer and don't know if this is intentional or a bug.

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Re: Avatar for Amonymous [message #162340 is a reply to message #162338]

Wed, 28 April 2010 00:18

The Witcher

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naudefj wrote on Tue, 27 April 2010 12:41

Anonymous posts are stored with poster_id=0, but the anonymous user is id=1.

To see avatars, execute: UPDATE fud30_msg SET poster_id=1 WHERE poster_id=0;

I'm not the original developer and don't know if this is intentional or a bug.

That would seem intentional. With the way the forum works "Global anonymous, Global Registered then First Forum".

So could changing those values have a detrimental effect?

"I'm a Witcher, I solve human problems; not always using a sword!"

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