I'm pretty sure that this ISN'T the right way to do it, but that's never stopped you before right? ;)

	function Render( & $params )
	{
		if( ! parent::Render( $params ) )
		{ // We cannot render the required format
			return false;
		}

		global $Item;
		
		//print_r($Item);

Hope you got to fly in the snow ;)

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Thanks. I'll give it a go and it'll probably get the job done, but I'll keep poking around for a quality answer to the issue. The creative commons people say you should customimze the text a bit instead of the generic text they provide with their licenses, so I'm thinking "This post is the creative work of (link to all posts by author)preferred_name(/link) and is released under a (link to license) creative commons license(/link)" seems kinda cool.

No flying in snow yet, but I'm just south of Phoenix (the city - not the zip) so snow is kinda hard to come by :( On the brighter side, no one sells snow shovels here :D

AFAIK there's no clean way yet.

Probably we should pass the Item as param to the render() method.

blueyed wrote:

AFAIK there's no clean way yet.

Probably we should pass the Item as param to the render() method.

Cool, does that make me the "quality answer" then? :p

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I am trying to write a basic avatars plugin for the latest CVS code I got today, has this situation changed at all?
[edit] After looking at the test plugin, I saw that $params['User'] was used, however, I get

Line : 	    $default_image_path = $params['User'] -> get_media_dir()."avatar.png";

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/www/roxxoran/therox/b2evolution/blogs/plugins/_avatar.plugin.php on line 52

[\edit]

2nd edit: It seems that $params['User'] doesn't exist in RenderToHTML() so I'll probably try capture it somewhere in another function, not sure what though

There are different $param arrays for each method/hook. And those objects/params get passed which make sense - or at least they should.. :)

I've just committed the change that "Item" gets added to the params for the Render* methods and through this you should get the item's author then.

If you want to have the current, logged in, user instead, use the $current_User global.

Thanks! I'll post the working plugin once I get the chance to do some coding :)

needs polish, but its there by pure brute force:

<?php
/**
 *
 * b2evolution - {@link http://b2evolution.net/}
 * Released under GNU GPL License - {@link http://b2evolution.net/about/license.html}
 * @copyright (c)2003-2005 by orta - {@link http://therox.org/}
 *
 * @package plugins
 */
if( !defined('EVO_MAIN_INIT') ) die( 'Please, do not access this page directly.' );


/**
 * @package plugins
 */
class avatar_plugin extends Plugin
{
	var $code = 'b2ava';
	var $name = 'Avatars';
	var $priority = 100;
	var $version = '0.1';
	var $author = 'orta';
	var $help_url = 'http://therox.org/';
	var $apply_rendering = 'opt-out';
	var $number_of_installs = 1;
	var $short_desc;
	var $long_desc;


	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	function avatar_plugin()
	{
		$this->short_desc = T_('Add avatars to posts');
		$this->long_desc = T_('Add avatars to each posts, they are assigned to the ');
	}


	/**
	 * Perform rendering
	 *
	 * @param array Associative array of parameters
	 * 							(Output format, see {@link format_to_output()})
	 * @return
	  boolean true if we can render something for the required output format
	 */
	function RenderItemAsHtml( & $params )
	{
	   $item = $params['Item'];
        $author = $item-> Author;
        $default_image_path = '../../media/users/';
        $default_image_path .= $author -> nickname . '/';
        $default_image_path .= $author -> nickname;
        $default_image_path .= '.png';
        
        $content = '<img src = "' . $default_image_path;
        $content .= '" class="rightmargin';
        $content .= '" />'; 
        $content .= "\n"; 
        $content .= $params['data'];
        $params['data'] = $content;

		return true;
	}
}

?>

I may be wrong, but I think that this :-

    function RenderItemAsHtml( & $params )
    {
       $item = $params['Item'];
        $author = $item-> Author;
        $default_image_path = '../../media/users/';
        $default_image_path .= $author -> nickname . '/';
        $default_image_path .= $author -> nickname;
        $default_image_path .= '.png';
        
        $content = '<img src = "' . $default_image_path;
        $content .= '" class="rightmargin';
        $content .= '" />'; 
        $content .= "\n"; 
        $content .= $params['data'];
        $params['data'] = $content;

        return true;
    }

Should read like this :-

    function RenderItemAsHtml( & $params )
    {
       global $media_url;

        $author = $params['Item']->Author->login;
        $default_image_path = $media_url.'users/'.$author.'/'.$author.'.png';
        
        $content = '<img src = "' . $default_image_path;
        $content .= '" class="rightmargin';
        $content .= '" />'; 
        $content .= "\n"; 
        $content .= $params['data'];
        $params['data'] = $content;

        return true;
    }

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I like that, I've still got a lot to learn with respect to PHP :)