By unxposed on

I know this has come up before but I don't seem to be able to find a relevent answer. I want to replace the default list of names in the 'New users' block with images of my users avatars (or default avatar if no avatar has been uploaded). I have copied the user_list function from user.module and placed it in my template.php file. replacing 'user_picture' instead of 'username'

function phptemplate_user_list($users, $title = NULL) {
  if (!empty($users)) {
    foreach ($users as $user) {
      $items[] = theme('user_picture', $user);
    }
  }
  return theme('item_list', $items, $title);
}

However, I am only getting the sites default avatar as every image, even though all users have custom avatars uplaoded. Why is this? I'm obviously using the wrong variable (user_picture) - but what should I be using. I can't find a list of user variables.

Also what should I name the 'new users' block tpl.php file, as I'd like to change the header also?

Thanks

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unxposed commented

Did the confusing title put people off? Or is it just that nobody knows!?

Any help would be really appreciated!

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amandawolfe commented

I ran into the same problem. Based on my super-basic knowledge, I think you *may* be looking for the account variable. But I came up with a significantly easier and more elegant solution: A custom Views block. If you're trying to do anything customized on your site at all, at some point you're probably going to decide to go ahead and install it--if not to solve this, then down the road. So I'd say go with Views, learn the UI which--once you understand what it does is simple enough and extremely powerful--and then make yourself a custom block in 10 minutes. :)

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unxposed commented

Thanks for the response! This is perfect, I installed views 2 last night and can't believe how powerful it is. Really great. I love how I can create a users view which will give me a page with a list of users & details, and also a block of the users showing only images - what I percieved as 2 birds, with one very designer friendly stone. I just need to find a way of using imagecache to define avatars and I'm sorted... but that's another issue. : )

Thanks again.

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amandawolfe commented

Oh I've got your fix on that too, actually! (I love feeling helpful!) I wanted my user images to be cropped exactly square for a number of design reasons. This is the module you need: http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_profiles

Unfortunately as you will see, there's no D6 version yet. If you follow this thread, (http://drupal.org/node/225816) you'll see that some lovely people have ported it and rolled a patch against that port. So I currently have it installed (even though it's not technically a released module) and had to do the patch against it to get some functionality to work (which I'd never done before but was easier than I thought--I'm a designer-type too, not a developer!) and it's working super-smooth for me so far. It's a little scary to be using basically a custom module, but it's working for me now and it solves all my problems, so I'm sticking to it!

Anyhow, if you're interested in that somewhat-sticky solution, just follow all the comments in that post and that should get you there.

HTH!

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unxposed commented

Awesome thanks.

Yeah I read that but was very put off by the whole patch thing... I still can't get my head around it, as much as I read the relevent pages, but I'll give it a proper go later and probably crack it.

Thanks again for your help!