Avatar "upload from file" integration outside of t

[Serge B-G]

Greetings,

I originally posted this topic under the MOD section of the phpBB official forums and I do not know if you all can help me out but here is what I am trying to achieve:

I would like to add the possibility to change the avatar from my main web site (not on the forum) through URL and uploaded image.

So far I was able to find code to get the avatar:

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include("./phpBB3/includes/functions_display.php");
$avatar_img = get_user_avatar($user->data['user_avatar'], $user->data['user_avatar_type'], $user->data['user_avatar_width'], $user->data['user_avatar_height']);
echo $avatar_img;

I was also able to get this working (for URL upload):

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$sql_ary= array
( 'user_avatar_type'=> AVATAR_REMOTE  // Not local, not chosen from gallery
, 'user_avatar'=> 'http://www.anysite.com/theavatar.jpg'  // Link to image
, 'user_avatar_width'=> 100  // Dimension in pixel...
, 'user_avatar_height'=> 100  // ...same
);

$sql= 'UPDATE '. USERS_TABLE. '
SET '. $db-> sql_build_array( 'UPDATE', $sql_ary ). '
WHERE user_id= '. $user_id;  // Member whom to assign new avatar
$db-> sql_query( $sql );

But I was unable to find a way to get the "Upload from your machine" option to actually work.

It is probably a lot similar to what I posted above regarding URL upload but I saw that the files I upload through the forum are renamed and I do not know how I could do that exactly as phpBB to make them working properly (the files uploaded seems to be renamed in ./phpBB3/includes/functions_upload.php).

I do know that:

0 = AVATAR_REMOTE
1 = AVATAR_UPLOAD
2 = AVATAR_GALLERY

So I would probably need to change 'user_avatar_type' to AVATAR_UPLOAD. Rename the file as phpBB would do, upload it to ./phpBB3/images/avatars/upload/ and get the image name after the upload process to be able to use it in my UPDATE statement.

Can anyone give me a hand with that please? I must admit that my PHP knowledge is at a medium level and I would mainly need help with the upload and get the file name back part. I wanted some tips before actually trying anything, as someone probably already did this or got a better idea as to how to do it.

The code would probably look like:

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include("./phpBB3/includes/functions_upload.php");
$source_file = '' //I would fill this with the path to the file I want to upload
$file_uploaded = function local_upload($source_file, $filedata = false); //I am unsure what the function actually returns. This would be done when I submit my form.

echo $file_uploaded->get('filename'); //I am unsure about this, the same reason as the line above.

$sql_ary= array
( 'user_avatar_type'=> AVATAR_UPLOAD
, 'user_avatar'=> $file_uploaded
, 'user_avatar_width'=> '' //I am unsure about this, probably a property of $file_uploaded>
, 'user_avatar_height'=> '' //I am unsure about this, probably a property of $file_uploaded>
);
$sql= 'UPDATE '. USERS_TABLE. '
SET '. $db-> sql_build_array( 'UPDATE', $sql_ary ). '
WHERE user_id= '. $user_id;

Thanks a lot for your time and help.

[Thoul]

The best way to handle the uploading would be to use phpBB's functions that deal with that. They are in the includes/functions_user.php file. Using avatar_upload() would be one way, but it might be better to use avatar_process_user() and let it handle both the upload and remote stuff for you.