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User Pictures Above Navigation Block
Posted by GorillaSushi on January 22, 2007 at 5:42pm

I am looking to display the logged in user's picture above their name in the navigation block.

I'm using a theme based on box-gray. Currently the logged in user's name appears above the main navigation block. I would like the user's avatar to appear directly above it. User's who are not logged in would see the anonymous avatar.

I tried creating a block using...

but that didn't work. Would I need to find the PHP that already displays the name and and a snippet above it?

Thanks in advance
Jason - www.gorillasushi.com
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could you use Views to make
Posted by nickmaynard on January 22, 2007 at 6:03pm

could you use Views to make a block and have the filter be the current users picture? and make it only viewable to authenticated users?

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might need $user variable?
Posted by krisvannest on January 22, 2007 at 7:06pm

Well i don't know too much about accessing $picture, but it might be that it refers to the picture of the node author, so since there is no node author per-se of navigation block you might have to actually get at it by pulling from the $user variable...

For example, here's some code to display the logged in user's name anywhere in a template:

Perhaps there's a $user->picture type variable you can try/lookup?

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yes, try $user->picture
Posted by krisvannest on January 22, 2007 at 7:11pm

Just tested my above code and looks like it works; thanks for posting the question, too, because now after jotting the code it might be something I use myself. Here's an update of the above, but w/ additional code to display the currently logged in user's pic:

BTW, don't forget you need to escape any quotes you want to print via a PHP command by putting the \ just before them, as I did here.

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Perfect! Thanks!
Posted by GorillaSushi on January 24, 2007 at 6:41pm

That's exactly what I needed!
My version ended up slightly different...

Mine shows only the picture using "br"s to center vertically. Users not logged in see the default avatar (noavatar.jpg) that links to the registration page.