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An avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character.

In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character. It may take either a three-dimensional form, as in games or virtual worlds, or a two-dimensional form as an icon in Internet forums and other online communities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(computing)

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PHP User Avatars

Possible Duplicate: Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay? I am building a system in which the users can upload their own avatars. I found that there are 2 ways of doing that - storing the image into the database or storing actual path to the image…
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Use gamer's avatar in Xbox game

I have been reading a lot about Xbox game development. Back in 2010-12, XNA technology was available so that a game could use the gamer's avatar. When developing a game today, how can I use a gamer's avatar in the game ? I am aware that gamertag…
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I want to filter my Author avatar list by by User role

Here is my code. I only want to display The authors and exclude the rest of the user roles. Please help, I only have a few strands of hair left!!!! function contributors() { global $wpdb; $authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, user_nicename from…
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Avatar contact Image how to dynamically display user profile image and the last name with random color UWP?

I'm writing Avatar for the contact list. The design is like this, if I can get the contact's image then I display the image. If not I need to show capital letter of the last name with random color. I know how to display round image
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Openfire server pep based avatars , Android client

I have setup openfire server and my android clients works well with it except that I am unable to publish avatars , the problem is that the server simply ignores the publish avatar iq packet , no errors , nothing in the log files. I am using…
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Error.. trying to include the User Avatar with a posted comment

I'm using CarrierWave for my Avatar Uploading. The uploading and deletion of the avatar works in the user edit view and displays in otherviews. But when trying to include an Avatar with a comment I run into an error. TypeError in…
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Using avatar images for users in Rails

I'm looking to create some avatars for my users in a Rails app. Basically I'll have a few images as radio buttons in the User sign up form that will show the various images that the user can then select as their own. I was wondering from people's…
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HTML - Image is not displaying in full

http://revive-blue-introblogger.blogspot.com/2010/07/demonstrating-all-theme-styles.html#comment-form I was trying to install this theme on my blog and I noticed a little problem - the avatars in the comment section are not displaying in full,…
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is there a library to fetch user avatars?

Let's suppose we are adding users to a platform using the email address. Until the invited users don't upload an avatar or a profile picture, the best we can display is either a generic "user icon" or a identicon (or similar). I assume that given…
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BuddyPress / Wordpress Get dynamic user ID

I'm trying to make a function that overrides the current users avatar URL with a custom URL that is saved in their user meta. So far the function works except that I'm stumped trying to figure out how to have the function grab the user ID of the…
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Having Trouble Changing Avatar Location on my Wordpress site

So I am using a script made by someone else. Wordpress site. I want to change the default upload location: mysite.com/wp-content/themes/theme_name/images/avatar/avatarnamehere20.jpg To: mysite.com/images/avatar/avatarnamehere20.jpg Anyways, this…
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PHPBB 3.0.10 and avatar from different server

I'm dealing with the avatar problem. Because my forum is joined with another one. I want to specify the common avatar path. I thought, that when I specify the full path: http://www.example.com/images/avatars/gallery, and…
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should user avatars be saved in a private directory?

I am building a community site and i'm currently writing a script that generates thumbnails and stores them on our filesystem. Should I be storing the avatars in a private directory? or is it OK for that type of file to be in a public assets…
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Storing multiple avatars

I want to make bigger application that stores multiple avatars for each registered user (different sizes of the same image). Should I store original images and resized avatars in the same directory (small_avatar and big_avatar stored in the same…
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