Avatar in Private Message View

Submitted by aleclaughlin on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 05:30
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I've got a social networking site going. Using Advance Profile Kit (APK) and Privatemsg (Private Message) modules. Instead of using the standard picture feature in user profiles, I set up a field (so as to be able to utilize image cache) in Content Types: User Profile. The field name is: field_avatar.

I want to get this avatar to appear in the Private Messages views when someone is reading their messages. This is the code snippet I am tinkering with:

<?php print $author_picture; ?>

I changed the variable: author_picture to: field_avatar thinking that might do the trick. I also tried field_avatar_fid, which I see in the source code of pages that display the avatar.

No luck so far. Am I totally off track?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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1. You have to load the correct

Submitted by dorien on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 11:28.

You have to load the correct profile node first with nodeprofile_load and only after that, use:

<?php print $node->author_picture; ?>

2. Thanks for the reply. I'm not

Submitted by aleclaughlin on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 01:12.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not following. nodeprofile is a drupal 5.x module (I think), but I am using 6.x. I think I am misunderstanding what you are suggesting here.

3. Sorry, I see you are using

Submitted by dorien on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 08:19.

Sorry, I see you are using APK, I actually meant to say content_profile_load. But since I am not familiar with APK, I can't help you with this.

4. two options

Submitted by vegardjo on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 13:06.

Don't know if you found the answer here, but I'm doing the same now, so here is what I've found:

1. privatemsg uses theme_user_picture, which in reality is template_preprocess_user_picture (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--user--user.module/function/tem...) - you could override that function in your theme to get the picture from content profile (which is used by APK), or.

2. your apporach to replace $author_picture: you would need code like:


<?php
$partcipant = content_profile_load('profile', $message['author']->uid);
print $partcipant->field_profilepicture['0']['filepath'];
?>

'profile' is the name of my content profile, and 'field_profilepicture' is my variant of your 'field_avatar'.

This code would only print the URL to the picture, but you could use that in an img tag, or imagecache preset.