Gravatar

[bonehead]

I think it would be awesome to implement Gravatar on the forums here. I am sure there is a vBulletin plugin for it.

It is basically a site where you can store avatars and connect them to your email address and on any site you use that supports the service, you can automatically have the same avatar at each and it will update all of them at once if you change it at the Gravatar site.

[chunusi]

sounds cool

[kjman]

Sounds like a really great idea bonehead! The would be neat to add on to the forums!

[elusivesora]

...can't they just provide you with a gdlib link to a dynamic image and they can update that? hell i can probably write you something like that if you want to be so lazy lol.

[bonehead]

Well, you have lost me, but yes I do want to be lazy.

[elusivesora]

Well, you have lost me, but yes I do want to be lazy.

A gdlib image is a dynamic image generated by PHP code. In the forum, when you link to your avatar, you would link to a .php file instead of a standard image file and when other servers try to access it they are served an image. The image they are served could be changed by you at any time. I have never used gravatar but from your description I have to believe they offer something like this. I'll go investigate for you.

[elusivesora]

Ok I got this figured out for you, make this your avatar url: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=*****

and replace the series of *s with the md5 hash of the email address you use to log in. Use this site if you don't know how to do md5 encryption, http://md5.gromweb.com/. type your email address in the top box, click ok, copy the data from the bottom box and paste over the series of *s. I will make a converter for this shortly and upload to our site.

[elusivesora]

http://nobilitygaming.com/gravatarconvert.php

lazy ass.