By Kimeros on

Hi there,

I suspect there might be an easy answer to this but I'm having trouble getting my head around it :)

I have inherited a Drupal 7 site that uses a custom variable $field_my_pic to display the users picture on all the user info pages.

I'd also like to use that same picture ($field_my_pic) anywhere that Drupal/modules use $user_picture. Is there somehow/somewhere I can set $user_picture to equal $field_my_pic wherever it is called and by whatever module?

The current issue I have is that the forum module displays $user_picture (on this install a blank avatar instead of all the lovely pics we have under the $filed_my_pic variable).

I appreciate any help/hints about the best way to proceed. I've considered a few hacks but I'd rather do this properly :D

Cheers,
Kim.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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nevets commented

You can implement hook_preprocess_user_picture(), see: < href="http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!user!user.module/function/template_preprocess_user_picture/7">template_preprocess_user_picture() and reset the variable user_picture. This will handle any case where theme('user_picture', ...) is used to display the user picture which ideally would be all such cases.

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Kimeros commented

Hi,

Thanks very much for this. I've read up on implementing hooks and have so far:

1. created a custom module to house my hook in
2. created a function to call the hook.

I know it is being accessed as I've printed out large amounts of variables but I am having trouble accessing the variables I want directly and re-setting them. I've ended up trying to change everyone's user picture to mine (logged in user) and then setting every user image to the person I was then testing on! (Yay for test sites).

If anyone could point me in the right direction/hints/code or docs that would be great.

And partly to show the limit of my understanding this is what I have so far:

function mine_preprocess_user_picture(&$variables) {
  global $user;

  $account = $variables['account']; 
  $user = user_load(array('uid' => $account->uid));
   print_r($user);
   $picture = $user->picture; 
   echo "<p>This is the image info using the default profile info</p>";
   echo "<p>Filename: " . $picture->filename;
   echo " Uri: " . $picture->uri . "</p>";
   
   echo "<p>This is the image info using the custom field</p>";
   echo "<p>Filename: " .  $user->field_my_pic[und][0][filename];
   echo " Uri: " . $user->field_my_pic[und][0][uri] . "</p>" ;
   
   //This is where I need to set the user image for all users to their custom pic (field_my_pic). 

 }
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nevets commented

It would help if you expanded on the problems you are having.

I do see some possible issues, $account is passed in so should be not reason to reload it. And setting the global $user is likely to cause problems

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Kimeros commented

Hi Nevets,

Thanks for your comments about $account and $users. I'll try to do it without reloading them.

I'm trying to replace all the standard drupal user pictures with another image that is stored in a variable called my_user_pic.

At the moment I'm trying to do this at the hook_preprocess_user_picture stage.

I don't know the best way/a way to set the default drupal user picture to another picture everywhere it occurs. I tried using variable_set but I ended up setting all the images to the same person's one.

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nevets commented

I wonder if >User Picture Field already does what you want.

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Kimeros commented

Thanks Nevets,

I tried that module but it seems to be for setting up a new field in the registration form which captures images to use for the user picture rather than using fields that are already created.

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nevets commented

Should work with an existing image field you just need to follow steps 2 and 3 on the project page