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Sounds like a cool feature to include in the next release

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... would be very nice !

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.

... 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

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?

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

@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!

same here, what is the code?

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.