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Posted by Maximilian on July 10, 2008 at 9:25am
Project:Shoutbox
Version:master
Component:User interface
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:disterics
Status:active

Issue Summary

Showing the avatar picture next to nickname would be a nice and useful feature. It’s Easier to recognize a user. Thanks beforehand!

Shoutbox is cool!

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#1

Posted by disterics on July 10, 2008 at 10:05am
Version:6.x-1.x-dev» master

#2

Posted by disterics on February 25, 2009 at 7:39am
Assigned to:Anonymous» disterics

Sounds like a cool feature to include in the next release

#3

Posted by sdk on July 11, 2009 at 9:55pm

subscribing

#4

Posted by kakajoe on November 23, 2009 at 6:55am

+1

#5

Posted by vmed on March 21, 2011 at 7:49pm

... would be very nice !

#6

Posted by mikestefff on April 1, 2011 at 1:24pm
Status:active» closed (fixed)

This can be done inside the theme by overriding the shoutbox theme functions in template.php. Grab a copy of Drupal Commons and see how it's done there. It's very simple.

#7

Posted by vmed on April 1, 2011 at 3:41pm

... could you specify in more details how to configure the theme, and how to override the theme functions with the part of drupal commons ?

please..

thanks

johan

#8

Posted by mikestefff on April 1, 2011 at 6:30pm

Well, this is just a normal part of Drupal..

If you look inside a module, well, modules that are written correctly, just about all functions that actually output themed data should be declared like theme_shoutbox_post_whatever($shout, $user) (for examples...)..

That means that inside your theme, in the template.php file, you can:

my_theme_shoutbox_post_whatever($shout, $user) {
  // Do whatever you want to the output
}

If you look inside the shoutbox module, you'll see plenty of theme functions that you can override. If you download Drupal Commons and look inside the acquia_commons theme, inside the template.php file, there's an example of how to add the user avatars to the shouts. (it helps having imagecache installed so the images can all be set to the same size).

Get it?

#9

Posted by vmed on April 2, 2011 at 11:43am

thanks for your good reply,

i changed some code in my template.php file with belongs to my danland theme, cleared cache !, but no changes to my shoutbox !

..anything more maybe ?

thanks

johan

#10

Posted by kap316 on August 17, 2011 at 2:21am
Status:closed (fixed)» active

@mikestefff I appreciate the info, but to us newbies to coding, is it possible to give us the exact code to add avatars next to the username ? I have searched everywhere. I checked out drupal commons.. still confused!

This would be a great addition to the already awesome module! Thanks in advance!

#11

Posted by BeaPower on September 7, 2011 at 8:15pm

same here, what is the code?

#12

Posted by BeatleMike on January 2, 2012 at 7:35am

I downloaded drupal commons and found no mention of shoutbox in any of it. The acquia_commons theme was not included in it either, so probably why. Would love some help on this.