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Topic: Avatar Selector

Posted By: mwebber
Subject: Avatar Selector
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 1:31pm

It looks like all the default avatars are hard coded into the forum via the select_avatar.asp file.

Would it not make sence to display whats in the avatar folder. so if you want to custom you avatars without changing the code its as easy as just putting new ones in or deleting unwanted ones.

      <%   
dim fs,fo,x
set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set fo=fs.GetFolder(Server.MapPath("./")& "/avatars/")
for each x in fo.files
 if not x.Name = "Thumbs.db" then 
 %>
 
  <option value="avatars/<%=x.Name%>"> <%=x.Name%> </option>
  <%
  end if
next
set fo=nothing
set fs=nothing
%>

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:18pm

This was considered, however quite a few web hosts disable the FSO object for security reasons and without FSO you can't read files/images from a folder.

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