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i'm using this plugin to display recent posts. i'm trying to modify it to display site avatars. looking at the plugin, it already has a function to display avatars
'if ( function_exists('show_author_thumb') ) :
$profilepic = show_author_thumb($thispost[0]->post_author , 32);
echo $profilepic;
endif;'

i was able to display my default avatar by cobbling in stuff from the avatar plugin, specifically:

'function author_image_tag($authorID, $tags = '', $display = true) {
$path = author_image_path($authorID, false, 'absolute');
$width = author_image_dimensions($path, 'width');
//$height = author_image_dimensions($path, 'height');//again not needed
$tag = '<img src="' . author_image_path($authorID, false, 'url') . '" width=' . $width . ' '. $tags . ' ' . ' id="authorpic" />';
if ($display) { echo $tag; } else { return $tag; }
}'

any ideas on to make this pull the appropriate avatar? my end goal would be to display latest posts with avatars. any ideas would be appreciated.

Ahhhhh.. I see what you did there... :D the author refers to the authors *on that blog*. gotta pull the *user's* ID that is attached to that particular post.

And you know the format is user_id.jpg in the avatar directory, right? :)

i dont have it yet, but i'm gonna crack a beer and stare at it for a few hours. thank you very much, lady.

Curt

demonicume, try this code on your site and let me know if it works or not. It's actually xiando's code so if it doesn't work I may not be able to help resolve the issue, but here goes:

<!-- begin Bloglist /-->
<li class="sidebox">
<?php
$blogs = get_last_updated(10);
if( is_array( $blogs ) ) {
        ?>
        <h2>Bloggers</h2>

<ul>
        <?php

        global $wpmuBaseTablePrefix, $wpdb;

        foreach( $blogs as $details ) {

        $blogownerid = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_author FROM " . $wpmuBaseTablePrefix . $details[ 'blog_id' ]. "_posts");

if ( function_exists('show_author_thumb') ) :
        $profilepic = show_author_thumb($blogownerid, 32);
endif;
        echo '
<li>' . $profilepic . '<a href="http://' . $details[ 'domain' ] . $details[ 'path' ]
        . '">' . get_blog_option( $details[ 'blog_id' ], 'blogname' ) . '</a></li>
';
        } ?>
        </ul>
<?php } ?>

</li>
<!-- end Bloglist /-->

remember too that you need to be using the latest version of the avatar plugin (as that one generates the different sized avatars)

Ack! Backticks, suleiman! the page is all messed up. :D

did the forum eat some of the code?

I think it's more the code had an unclosed div.

looks like something is missing though. right around he ' '. $profilepic' part. maybe its a linebreak.

thanks for the help Sul, it didn't work, but its given me some ideas

funny to see such bug

sorry for that folks, here is the code in backticks :)

[Removed to save the forum :) - Mark]