Avatars

[SueG]

For those who don't feel like fiddling around too much looking around, how about EZ, step-by-step instructions for Dummies somewhere about putting those avatars in the left column and below your name in a post?

Thanks.

After logging in, click on the Profile above. Then down the page to Avatars.

Click on Show Galary, and pick a category, then click on one of your choosing.. then Submit.

If you want a picture somewhere else on the web, of yourself or whatever, just put in the link or url to it where prompted, then Submit...

Or... if you know which one you want, and can tell me, I'll set it up for you. TO get a filename of one of our Avatars, right click on the picture and left click on properties. I need to know the filename.

[bigdave]

Why don't you set it up so we can upload our own avatars - that is what most of the other bulletin boards allow.

If we enter an avatar from a URL, does it get copied to cavediver.net or does it always get downloaded from that site?

TIA,
BD

Why don't you set it up so we can upload our own avatars - that is what most of the other bulletin boards allow.

If we enter an avatar from a URL, does it get copied to cavediver.net or does it always get downloaded from that site?

TIA,
BD

The option to allow uploads of avatars is a standard option in this forum's software too. but too unsecure. See this note: http://cavediver.info/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=67

You can upload to this forum, using an FTP program or script as described on the note above... I sent you an email with the login information.

If you upload to the cavediver site, with an FTP program, put it in the pictures/avatars .

If you upload it with the script on the pictures page, the link or url to it will be:

http://www.cavediver.net/pictures/YOUR_PICTURE_NAME (this is not a real link)

Example: http://cavediver.net/pictures/british1.jpg

or just send it to Webmaster@cavediver.net and we will crop it, size it, if necessary, and put it where it belongs... just remember to tell us your handle....

[mcmacken]

My avatar lives at
http://cavediver.info/images/avatars/johnmcmacken.jpg

but does not seem to display. Help! Help!

[Moonfuzzy]

I can see it next to your post - are you saying that you can't see it there?

[mcmacken]

I can see it next to your post - are you saying that you can't see it there?

Nope, just a generic html graphic icon instead of my smiling mug. Maybe a permissions issue on the directory?

My avatar lives at
http://cavediver.info/images/avatars/johnmcmacken.jpg

but does not seem to display. Help! Help!

Try now, do a refresh... It was re-saved from MS Paint...

http://cavediver.info/images/avatars/johnmcmacken.jpg

http://cavediver.info/images/avatars/johnmcmacken.jpg

[Genesis]

Sounds like this forum doesn't know how to store the pictures internally inside its database, so it can't keep them "internally."

There are probably ways around this (by creating a new table and hacking the code to look it up, then dealing with the upload issue) but that TJ is doing is a LOT simpler, and if you already have a web page somewhere (with storage enough to stick it in there) that's easier.

It also keeps some load off the server's link, since those avatar pics then come from your web server instead of TJs.....

[mcmacken]

Try now, do a refresh... It was re-saved from MS Paint...

http://cavediver.info/images/avatars/johnmcmacken.jpg

http://cavediver.info/images/avatars/johnmcmacken.jpg
No good. If I try to open the link in another window, the browser just waits and waits and waits . . .
Tried both IE and Mozilla Fiirefox. Tried logging in and out. Tried refresh. Is anyone else's avatar from that directory working? It is the same JPEG that I use on The Deco Stop.

Sounds like this forum doesn't know how to store the pictures internally inside its database, so it can't keep them "internally."

There are probably ways around this (by creating a new table and hacking the code to look it up, then dealing with the upload issue) but that TJ is doing is a LOT simpler, and if you already have a web page somewhere (with storage enough to stick it in there) that's easier.

It also keeps some load off the server's link, since those avatar pics then come from your web server instead of TJs.....

Yep, having pics loaded elsewhere can't hurt performance... but we are considering a mod for a photo gallery... Things like 'reasonable' huge movie files, are okay too, if cave related. A few of them get so much attention, that they get moved to Dallas.

[mcmacken]

No good. If I try to open the link in another window, the browser just waits and waits and waits . . .
Tried both IE and Mozilla Fiirefox. Tried logging in and out. Tried refresh. Is anyone else's avatar from that directory working? It is the same JPEG that I use on The Deco Stop.
Works OK now. Maybe because I'm not at work? Firewall stuff?

[Anonymous]

Generally speaking, you don't want to have images stored in the database unless you absolutely have to. It is much faster and more efficient to store the path in the DB, and serve the file up from the file system.

Having large glops of binary image data in the database usually doesn't do much for performance.