Idea Re: Jomsocial and Kunena questions

I inspected a couple of pages at the user's website but I did not see evidence of the avatar image problem; I was probably looking in the wrong places. We also need to remember that the site under discussion does not using the standard Kunena default_ex template. Although the template being used at Lord Zedd's website looks OK (from the few pages that I saw) is it really fully-compatible with K 1.5.11?

This is one of the major pitfalls of Kunena and one of the main reasons why I don't make too many changes to Kunena. Because Kunena has changed so many times in the past 12 months (there have been something like 15 releases!) by the time you've tested the latest version in a test environment, worked your way through the hundreds of so-called "problems" that people report (most of these aren't bug reports, they're mainly problems caused by issues outside Kunena), satisfied yourself that the latest version is safe to use, customised it to your own personal taste and installed it ... the next version has already been released! In other words, you're continually playing a game of catching up! :ohmy:

For various reasons I simply don't have the time any more to make changes to Kunena because, for every change I make, I have to keep records what and how to do it all over again when the next version comes out.

This may be the case for this problem. When I wrote that the avatar image problem was known in K 1.5.9, I was referring to what I wrote in 1.5.9 - Known issues . In K 1.5.9 we received numerous questions about wrongly-sized avatar images if users integrated Kunena with Community Builder. I don't recall any problems with JomSocial.

So, while I don't know anything about JomSocial, I'm looking only one aspect of the problem: the avatar image size issue. Cerberus wrote earlier that this is a JomSocial matter and that Lord Zedd should take his question up with them. That's a good idea. Has the question been asked? What was the answer?

But, by the same token, whenever you "customise" software to suit your own personal tastes you jeopardise its integrity.

So, in conclusion, let me ask this one important question: does the avatar image size problem occur when you use the standard, unmodified Kunena default_ex template on the website? If there is no problem then we know where the cause is, don't we?

Until we get an answer to this question, anything else we write is just guesswork on our part.

Sorry. I thought I had done that. It is now enabled.

sozzled wrote:
I inspected a couple of pages at the user's website but I did not see evidence of the avatar image problem; I was probably looking in the wrong places. We also need to remember that the site under discussion does not using the standard Kunena default_ex template. Although the template being used at Lord Zedd's website looks OK (from the few pages that I saw) is it really fully-compatible with K 1.5.11?

This is one of the major pitfalls of Kunena and one of the main reasons why I don't make too many changes to Kunena. Because Kunena has changed so many times in the past 12 months (there have been something like 15 releases!) by the time you've tested the latest version in a test environment, worked your way through the hundreds of so-called "problems" that people report (most of these aren't bug reports, they're mainly problems caused by issues outside Kunena), satisfied yourself that the latest version is safe to use, customised it to your own personal taste and installed it ... the next version has already been released! In other words, you're continually playing a game of catching up! :ohmy:

For various reasons I simply don't have the time any more to make changes to Kunena because, for every change I make, I have to keep records what and how to do it all over again when the next version comes out.

This may be the case for this problem. When I wrote that the avatar image problem was known in K 1.5.9, I was referring to what I wrote in 1.5.9 - Known issues . In K 1.5.9 we received numerous questions about wrongly-sized avatar images if users integrated Kunena with Community Builder. I don't recall any problems with JomSocial.

Yes, I have the same feeling that I am trying to catch up every time.

So, in conclusion, let me ask this one important question: does the avatar image size problem occur when you use the standard, unmodified Kunena default_ex template on the website? If there is no problem then we know where the cause is, don't we?

Until we get an answer to this question, anything else we write is just guesswork on our part.

Yes, the avatars remain the same when I installed the standard template. My template is customized but not a lot.

I have changed only colors in css, another image for the background and that is it. In the administrator backend in Kunena I set everything correctly. The avatars do show up but at a size of 64px at 64px.

Lord Zedd wrote:

Yes, the avatars remain the same when I installed the standard template. My template is customized but not a lot.

I have changed only colors in css, another image for the background and that is it. In the administrator backend in Kunena I set everything correctly. The avatars do show up but at a size of 64px at 64px.

Your template has been customised, not only the colour scheme and some images, but in the the arrangement that displays the user details on the left as opposed to the right. You may have based your customisations for your site on the Kunena default_ex template, but which version of the default_ex template was that?

What's wrong with 64 px x 64 px? Everything looks good to me. Perhaps this is just a JomSocial thing?

Hi Lord Zedd,

quick and the only solution for avatar is:

file view.php

components / com_kunena / template / default_ex /

line ~576 change this

$jsuser->getThumbAvatar()

to this

$jsuser->getAvatar()

Regards

Hi all,

Ive posted a reply here:
www.jomsocial.com/forum/index.php?f=13&t...b_v=viewtopic#p98168

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Lord Zedd wrote: 1. I would like to have a bigger avatar on the Kunena forums. When I go to the Kunena administrator backend in Joomla, I go to Kunena configuration > Integration > Avatars. I select JomSocial.

For profile settings and Pms I also select Jomsocial. When I go to Kunena confiruation > Avatars you can change the size. I did that but the avatar size remains the same. My avatar sizes are 64px x 64px. How can I solve this?

There are few ways. You could either modify core JomSocial file, or modify Kunena view/template files.
First option
Modify core JS file to produce thumbs at large size. Im not able to provide any help with this as it may adversely affect JS in the future due to irregular thumb sizes.

Second
Modify Kunena CSS file to resize the width to a large portion.

Code:

http://www.stargateonline.be/components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/kunena.forum.css

Line 741:

Code:

#Kunena span.fb_avatar img { border:1px solid #BFC3C6; margin:5px; max-height:150px; max-width:100px; padding:1px; }

change to

Code:

#Kunena span.fb_avatar img { border:1px solid #BFC3C6; margin:5px; max-height:150px; max-width:100px; padding:1px; width:100px; }

Third
Modify Kunena code to retrieve actual avatar instead of thumb. Refer user @quila's reply here:
www.kunena.com/forum/11-jomsocial/48320-...ns?limit=10&start=10

Lord Zedd wrote: 3. I have a weird problem that I can not seem to solve. I do not understand it. It is regarding login in and out of Kunena and Jomsocial. Perhaps it is an error of Jomsocial and not Kunena. I do not really know.

I am visiting my own forum under my account. I select logout. I am directed to the Jomsocial frontpage. I am not logged out. When I select "Log out" on the right side in Jomsocial frontpage, I am effectively logged out. I than get a weird message that I need to login.

I am visiting my own forum as a normal guest. I select on the forum login. I am directed to the Jomsocial frontpage where it says become a member and an option to login. I enter my username and password. I select login. Than I get the same weird message that I need to login.

I really do not understand it myself. I am using the Hello me module on the website aswell but I do not think the problem lays there. It is confusing, I know but if you could take a look at it please, it would be really appreciated!

I have created a test account for you guys so you can try out what goes wrong in question number 3. The username is test and password is also test.

This is a common itemID issue in Joomla. Do you have any com_user / com_community&view=profile menu that is set as 'Registered' ?

@quila wrote:

Hi Lord Zedd,

quick and the only solution for avatar is:

file view.php

components / com_kunena / template / defaulr_ex /

line ~576 change this

$jsuser->getThumbAvatar()

to this

$jsuser->getAvatar()

Regards

Ow yes, that really did it.

I have also asked around at Jomsocial at the following thread.
www.jomsocial.com/forum/index.php?f=13&t=17984&rb_v=viewtopic

So if other users experience the same problem, they can also look there.

This is weird, I have the same problem but my view.php doesn't feature this code at all

Hi Jack, double check if you are looking in the right file from right template

components / com_kunena / template / default_ex / view.php

I've just checked in our trunk, code is still there

Regards

Thanks - turns out my Dreamweaver 'find' was simply not working. Sorry and thank-you for your help.