[support] [SOLVED] getting rid of "soandso's picture" text

[Neil Coghlan]

Ah OK, that's where I was going (slowly!) with my "is it FF or IE?" 
question. :-)

same thing happened to me a year back.

Neil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher M. Jones" <cjones at partialflow.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [support] [SOLVED] getting rid of "soandso's picture" text


> Thanks, all. I forgot that I had set a default picture, which no longer
> exists in the original location. Where I was getting the "username's
> picture' it was because of an empty <img> tag. FF just displayed the
> link, but I finally saw in IE the broken img icon. So I was right the
> first time: I test on $picture, and it works when there -really- isn't a
> picture.
>
> Sorry to waste your time.
>
> Dale McGladdery wrote:
>> Take a look at theme_user_picture
>> (http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_user_picture/5).
>>
>> Overriding it may be your answer. Changing it will change the way the
>> user picture is output everywhere on your site, it may not be exactly
>> what you need.
>>
>> Another potential strategy is doing something like as follows
>> (warning, I haven't thought this completely through and I haven't used
>> Zen):
>> In the Zen template preprocessor function, put in something like this:
>>   global $user:
>>   if ($user->picture) {
>>     $vars['width-css-class'] = 'has-picture';
>>   }
>>   else {
>>     $vars['width-css-class'] = 'no-picture';
>>     $vars['picture'] = '';  // This is example and might not be the
>> correct value for the picture
>>   }
>>
>> The in your template.php you can do something like:
>> <?php if ($picture): ?>
>>   <div class="picture"><?php print $picture ?></div>
>> <?php endif; ?>
>> <div class="<?php print $width-css-class ?>">
>>    The content stuff
>> </div>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Christopher M. Jones
>> <cjones at partialflow.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks, yes. I assumed that step. To clarify: I have pictures enabled
>>> and they show in my templates.  But where no picture exists, because the
>>> user has not uploaded one, I have a link that reads "username's
>>> picture". I not only want to remove that link but I want to adjust the
>>> layout to compensate for the lack of a picture.
>>>
>>> Dale McGladdery wrote:
>>>> You didn't mention turning on Picture Support in user settings. To do
>>>> so go to Adminster | User management | User settings
>>>> (/admin/user/settings) and scroll down to the "Picture support"
>>>> section. This is where you select you default picture, as well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Christopher M. Jones
>>>> <cjones at partialflow.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'm using Drupal five, building a theme off of Zen. I want to 
>>>>> optionally
>>>>> display a user's picture in posts, so that if the user has uploaded a
>>>>> picture then it is displayed, and if not then the teaser view shifts
>>>>> left to occupy that space.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I turned on pictures in the theme configuration. But now, where 
>>>>> there
>>>>> is no picture available, I have a "soandso's picture" link.
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically: I want if( $picture ){...} in the .tpl.php file to
>>>>> evaluate to FALSE if there is no picture, TRUE if there is one. How 
>>>>> can
>>>>> I get this behavior? Is there a theme override that I'm missing?
>>>>>
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