Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : Feature suggestion - Avatars https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:31:36 +0000 Thu, 18 May 2006 10:00:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=19906 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : PHP has functions built into it...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107227.html#107227 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 19906
Posted: 18 May 2006 at 10:00am

PHP has functions built into it for knowing the dimensions of an image when uploaded, in ASP you don't have this.

It is available in a few more expensive upload components, but not enough to include support for this.

For the moment, until max-width and max-height are available in IE, avatar will have to remain a fixed size.
]]> Thu, 18 May 2006 10:00:07 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107227.html#107227 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : PHPBB2 has avatar size controls....]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107213.html#107213 Author: RadioActiveLamb
Subject: 19906
Posted: 18 May 2006 at 2:53am

PHPBB2 has avatar size controls.  When a user updloads an avatar, the size of the image is validated against the max size.  If it's too big, the upload is denied.  It is the user's responsibility to provide an avatar within the max dimensions, so there's some server-side image validation going on. 
 
Screen shot of the avatar controls: http://mhvillages.net/files/avatarsettings.gif
]]> Thu, 18 May 2006 02:53:22 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107213.html#107213 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : -boRg- wrote:I believe in...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107208.html#107208 Author: SweetLou
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 10:43pm

Originally posted by -boRg- -boRg- wrote:

I believe in PhpBB there is nothing to stop a user from having an avatar of any size they like, even as big as 1000 pixles wide which would screw up your forum layout.
Not entirely true, in phpBB2 the admin can set the dimensions and the size of avatars, except it doesn't work for avatars that are linked from other sites, only to uploaded avatars. But, there are quite a few mods that will resize or not allow them.
I haven't looked at phpBB2's code closely, but I think instead of using css for the size, it reads the dimensions of the image and checks the value for the height and width in the database when first uploading it, if it is too large, it just rejects it. Of course, you will need a component to read these dimensions.
]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 22:43:22 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107208.html#107208 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : You can place the image inside...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107207.html#107207 Author: Imperator
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 9:47pm

You can place the image inside the div tag as shown above. The div tagwill "resize" depending on the size of the image, but will not stretchbeyond the set limit.

I don't know. (We might be talking about different things...)
]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 21:47:40 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107207.html#107207 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : Max-height does work in IE, but...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107199.html#107199 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 8:35pm

Max-height does work in IE, but just not on images.]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 20:35:19 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107199.html#107199 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : Max-width/max-height can be done...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107182.html#107182 Author: Imperator
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 4:57pm

Max-width/max-height can be done in IE, but involves a work-around. Forexample, this is the code I used in the previous version of the forumto limit signature height:

strAuthorSignature="<div style=""height:expression(this.scrollHeight> 125? '125px' : 'auto' ); width:600px; z-index:1; overflow: hidden;max-height:125px;"">"+strAuthorSignature+"</div>"

The above code limits the signature to 125 height. Something similar can probably be done to avatars.
]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 16:57:49 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107182.html#107182 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : I believe in PhpBB there is nothing...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107178.html#107178 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 4:19pm

I believe in PhpBB there is nothing to stop a user from having an avatar of any size they like, even as big as 1000 pixles wide which would screw up your forum layout.

Most forum admins don't like this and want a way to control this. The max-width property in CSS allows any size avatars upto a set size, which is ideal, however, this isn't supported in IE so again users can use avatars over the set size which screws up the page layout.

I did try to use the max-width CSS, but so many people complained that I had to go back to the set size.
]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 16:19:38 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107178.html#107178 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : Why not implement a max avatar...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107173.html#107173 Author: RadioActiveLamb
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 3:35pm

Why not implement a max avatar size as a server-side function, and not rely on the client to render it properly?  We're migrating from a PHPBB2 board which does it this way.  Only PHPBB2 doesn't have the size limiter that WWF has (nifty!)
 
Thanks for the heads-up on the CSS property.  I'll bump-up the size to 100x100 to make the natives happier.


Edited by RadioActiveLamb - 17 May 2006 at 3:36pm]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 15:35:23 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107173.html#107173 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : This can be changed by editing...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107156.html#107156 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 10:02am

This can be changed by editing the default_style.css file.

I had hoped to use the CSS max-width property for the avatar size which would had allowed greater flexibility just like you mention, but the only browser not yet to implement this is crappy IE, so I was forced to go back to fixed avatar sizing after allot of complaints from IE users.

At the moment it doesn't even look like this CSS property will be implement in IE 7 either Unhappy
]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 10:02:14 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107156.html#107156 <![CDATA[Feature suggestion - Avatars : I&#039;d like to restrict the...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107127.html#107127 Author: RadioActiveLamb
Subject: 19906
Posted: 17 May 2006 at 12:15am

I'd like to restrict the avatar size by dimensions, not just file size.  Currently, the 64x64 fixed avatar is too small in my opinion.  I'd like to give my users the flexibility to upload larger or different shapped avatars (100x200 max)]]> Wed, 17 May 2006 00:15:51 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/feature-suggestion-avatars_topic19906_post107127.html#107127