At the moment you can not actually influence either of those through the templates which is a bit remiss of us. They are both valid requests and I will open a ticket on these to get them done.

Thank you for replying and thank you again for this wonderful plugin.

You’re welcome.

Rather than creating another post for the last poster column, is there a way to display the last poster’s avatar?  I’ve used the useravatar tag, but it doesn’t display the correct avatar.  Instead it was showing the guest avatar on the sections which had no posts and no avatar is displayed where there is last poster info.

how are you doing that?

I’ll try to explain it as best as I can:

If I used the following code:

I get this:

which is incorrect as the blank last post section should not display an avatar. The two users should have their own avatars displays.

Even if I change the context to current, it will display the same avatar instead of guest avatar.
Basically I would like something similar to how the recentposts widget displays the avatar.

I know some people do not want to display the avatar in groupview or forum view, so an option to turn it on or off will be great.

if you set context=user, you have to pass a second argument telling us what user… ie

sp_UserAvatar('tagClass=spImg spLeft&size=30&context=user', $userid);

current would not be right as thats the current user viewing the page…  so

$spThisTopic->first_user_id

or

$spThisTopic->last_user_id

in place of the $userid in my code above…

The code above works fantastic in Forum View, however does not seem to work with Group View. I’m sure i’m missing something to allow it to work in Group View.

It’s quite a bit more complicated in spGroupView as it depends on whether you are showing the last post from the main forum or if it can include the last post from a subforum.

if the main forum you would use $spThisForum->user_id

if from a sub forum you would use $spThisForum->user_id_sub

The problem is that there is no current way of determining in the template which might be used. That is something we could consider trying to make more exposed I guess.

That’s fantastic, the first code worked as I don’t have any sub forums at the moment. I may do in the future.

Thank you so much. The support here has been fantastic!!!!

edit: just need to work out how to get rid of the guest icons where there are no topics/posts in the forum.

Well in that case the user ID would be set to zero.

This is going to sound dumb but where do i set the user ID to zero? Also I cannot seem to find this parameter, assuming it is a parameter within sp_UserAvatar.

Sorry – I simply meant that for  a guest then $spThisForum->user_id will equal zero.

Ok, i’m probably missing something here.

I have the following code:

which displays the avatars of the last poster but with the guest icon:

If I add the =0 after user_id, it changes all the avatars to the guest icon.

If a forum has no topics/posts, then technically it shouldn’t display anything at all.