Resizing Avatar in Postbits

[alextgilbert]

Is it possible to make your avatar size larger when you post something?

[Wayne Luke]

You can do this in CSS. However, you'll be resizing a smaller image so there can be some artifacting. Browsers aren't the best at resizing images.

Visit your site. Turn on Edit Site. Click Style in the Site Builder Menu. Then select the CSS Editor tab. Enter in the code below, adjust as needed.

.b-userinfo .b-avatar, .b-userinfo .b-avatar img {
      max-height: 128px;
    max-width: 128px !important;
    width: 128px;
    height: 128px;
}

[TheologyWeb]

Question: I resized the avatar size in the postbit using similar code as above, I also set the max avatar size in each user group to that size (175 x 175 px) and I edited /core/includes/class_core.php to change the lines to:

define('FIXED_SIZE_AVATAR_WIDTH', 175);
define('FIXED_SIZE_AVATAR_HEIGHT', 175);

I then rebuilt all of the avatar thumbnails and everything looked great.

But when anyone uploads a new avatar, instead of resizing it to 175 x 175, the upload script resizes the avatar thumbnail to 100 x 100 and they then appear blurry. Until I rebuild the avatar thumbnails in the admincp maintenance again. Then they become sharp and are 175 x 175.

What am I missing? How do I tell the upload page to resize to 175 x 175 when uploading? Even if I upload an image that is already 175 x 175, it still gets resized to 100 x 100.

[Wayne Luke]

The thumbnail size is written in the customavatar table of the database. I don't actually know where it picks up the value though. It isn't related to anything in the AdminCP as far as I can see. Even the max height and width for Avatar size in the Usergroup permissions doesn't change it. And the default thumbnail size for image attachments is 121 X 121 (why? I don't know)...

[TheologyWeb]

The thumbnail size is written in the customavatar table of the database. I don't actually know where it picks up the value though. It isn't related to anything in the AdminCP as far as I can see. Even the max height and width for Avatar size in the Usergroup permissions doesn't change it. And the default thumbnail size for image attachments is 121 X 121 (why? I don't know)...

Except when I run the Rebuild Avatar Thumbnails, it changes the thumbnail sizes to be what I set them to (175 x 175). It's only when uploading a new one that it gets set down to the smaller size. So some routine somewhere must be resizing them to the 100 x 100 size and then storing that in the database.

separate question, Is there a way to create a scheduled task to rebuild the Avatar Thumbnails on a regular basis? I could just run it every few days to redo any new avatars.

PS thanks for all of your help here.

[TheologyWeb]

Found the answer in another thread:

Sorted.

Incase anyone is wanting to do this, I edited image.php in the core directory, if you find $table = 'customavatar';, then replace the $filedata_thumb to just say $filedata as I have here, it's not elegant, and I think someone can probably do this better! But it's doing what I wanted now.

 else
{
$table = 'customavatar';
if ($vbulletin->GPC['type'] == 'thumb' OR !empty($vbulletin->GPC['thumb']))
{
//$filedata = 'filedata_thumb';
$filedata = 'filedata';
}
}