Question Avitar Upload Problem

Hi all,
Im basically a Joomla beginner and have installed version 1.5.1 and I have installed the Kunena forums latest version. When trying to upload a avitar picture, I can navigate to the upload field on the profile tab but when I click the "upload" button, Im re-directed to a garbled html looking page, solid white with only highlighted links for the profile. I uploaded the Kunena component via .zip file and maybe theres a problem with the original upload? Im clueless, can someone direct me to the proper documentation or maybe someone already knows the solution for this?
Thanks!

Are we discussing Joomla 1.5.1? I know nothing about that version, sorry.

Perhaps this discussion topic might be helpful: Avatar upload doesn't work

Can you please provide a screen shot or a copy of the broken page?

Does enabling debug mode in Joomla give red error page? If it does, can you provide the information to us?

Your version of PHP, if it's less than 5.2.1, does not support the function "sys_get_temp_dir".

What you can do as a fix if you don't want to compile 5.2.1 or higher and re-install, is you can put the following in about line 27 on the file

/components/com_kunena/template/default/plugin/myprofile/myprofile_avatar_upload.php

right after...

"require_once(KUNENA_PATH_LIB .DS. 'kunena.file.class.php');"

if ( !function_exists('sys_get_temp_dir')) {
function sys_get_temp_dir() {
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath($_ENV); }
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath( $_ENV); }
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath( $_ENV); }
$tempfile=tempnam(uniqid(rand(),TRUE),'');
if (file_exists($tempfile)) {
unlink($tempfile);
return realpath(dirname($tempfile));
}
}
}

That will fix the problem in the mean time.

Cheers m8,

Jimmy

In that require there's a call:

CKunenaPath::tmpdir() which can be used to get around of this bug.

This bug is fixed in K1.5.4, which will be released in few hours.

Here's a shot of what I receive after selecting a photo to upload for the avitar and then clicking upload.