Question Jomsocial "guest male avatar" points to the wrong directory path (but femaie avatar path is correct)

I'm using Kunena 4.0.10 with JomSocial 4.1.7 under Joomla 3.5.1.

I have a problem in displaying JomSocial's default male guest avatar within the Kunena forums.

The default female guest avatar displays fine by pointing to:
/components/com_community/assets/user-Female.png

The default male guest avatar does not display because its PATH is WRONG pointing to:
/home/www/html/subs/travel/components/com_community/assets/user-Male.png
(that path doesn't exist)

I don't know why the paths can be different. As mentioned, the "female" path is correct. But shouldn't the PATH should be the same for both avatars?

Does anyone know where the "male" path is stored? If it in a database table or template, I can easy change that. But I haven't had any luck finding it so far.

Any ideas?

Thanks. -- Rik

PS: The configuration report link is generating an error message.

plugins/kunena/kunena_community/avatar.php line +- 67


whats the error on the report

810 wrote: plugins/kunena/kunena_community/avatar.php line +- 67

Thanks for the lead. I checked out the avatar.php file but I don't see anything that differentiates between male and female avatars. Those must be passed parameters specific to the user that are set before applying those parameters to the avatar.php file.

Would you know where the directory paths are set for each gender?

whats the error on the report

Sorry, the error I mentioned refers to the Kunena.org configuration report link at the top of this page which, when clicked on, generates an error message on the Kunena.org site indicating: "Woops. Looks like this page doesn’t exist."

Thanks. -- Rik

I guess that this deserves a bump after 6 months. Anyone know?

I edited the plugins/kunena/community/avatar.php file indicated above by "810" as follows:

WAS: $avatar = str_replace(JUri::root(true), '', COMMUNITY_PATH_ASSETS) . "user-Male.png";
NOW: $avatar = "http://www.[domain].com/en/components/com_community/assets/user-Male.png";

The above works. But does anyone know how to fix this other than editing the avatar.php as I did above.

Thanks. -- Rik

PS: The report function is working now ....

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the male user, is only for guest users. not to show the female/male gender.

You see the avatar from jomsocial. If no account on jomsocial, like guest post. Then a user avatar is showed. It isn't be invented to how it as gender avatar.

@810 - Thank you for your reply.

810 wrote: the male user, is only for guest users. not to show the female/male gender.

You see the avatar from jomsocial. If no account on jomsocial, like guest post. Then a user avatar is showed. It isn't be invented to how it as gender avatar.

I understand that and have no problem with what gender the avatar is.

My problem is that the path to the guest avatar is not valid and therefore the male avatar is not displaying at all.

Therefore, I had to hard code the url into the avatar.php file. Essentially, it is trying to use the absolute server path instead of the relative server path to create the correct url:

avatar.php absolute path: /home/www/html/subs/travel/en/plugins/kunena/community/
relative path -> (Joomla home)/plugins/kunena/community/

Any idea where to fix that (i.e. correct the server path to a relative server path) outside of editing the avatar.php file?

Thanks again. -- Rik

no, you need to edit that file. We don't have any subscription to jomsocial, so we couldn't check the plugin anymore, I have tried to contact the team, about getting a version from them, but I haven't got any reply on it.

Understood. I'll take it over to JomSocial.com and see if they can get to work on this.
Thanks again. -- Rik

Line 67 in plugins/kunena/community/avatar.php needs to be
$avatar = str_replace(JPATH_SITE, '', COMMUNITY_PATH_ASSETS) . "user-Male.png";
For some reason, JUri::base(true) and JUri::root(true) fail to come back with the document root in that code. I didn't look too closely at it since I could tell what it was *trying* to do. Evidently COMMUNITY_PATH_ASSETS (which is the Jomsocial constant) sometimes includes the document root which doesn't do any good when trying to generate an URL. That str_replace was simply failing to nuke the docroot from the path.
I don't know if JPATH_SITE is deprecated by now but that works in Joomla 3.6.5. I didn't try it in 3.7.x.
Just documenting this in case someone bumps into this specific error. I see that this is pretty old but I just had to fix this now.
Thanks
K
PS - I'm hoping that Jomsocial sent the Kunena team a valid subscription by now...