custom fields & forum wrappers / or member avatar url

[{ breezes }]

an inquiry: can custom fields be placed in the forum wrapper? specifically, i'm trying to make a custom field image show up in the banner area. interestingly, it shows up when i click on the profile tab, but anywhere else, it's a blank. i'm assuming this is because the custom field command variable only works for the profile layouts, but is there any way to work around this?

alternatively, if there's a way to call for the current member's avatar url that would work as well. i haven't found one, so using a custom field was kind of the alternative.

edit: when you've been working on this damn code for so long that you forget pb posts use bbcode not html adfghjkl

[Scott]

Jan 25, 2019 21:34:11 GMT -8 { breezes } said:

alternatively, if there's a way to call for the current member's avatar url that would work as well. i haven't found one, so using a custom field was kind of the alternative.

You can use this variable in the forum wrapper layout template:

$[current_user.avatar]

[{ breezes }]

Jan 26, 2019 11:24:12 GMT -8 Scott said:

You can use this variable in the forum wrapper layout template:

$[current_user.avatar]

This wouldn't work since I specifically need the avatar URL. $[current_user.avatar] calls on the avatar-wrapper etc. etc. etc. piece of code. I need it without that.

[Brian]

There's unfortunately no variable for just the avatar URL, but it shouldn't be too hard to restyle the avatar wrapper using CSS so that it behaves like it's just the image by itself.

If you need the URL so that you can use the image in CSS or somewhere else where only the URL is applicable the only way around that is to include $[current_user.avatar] on the page and obtain the URL from the element using Javascript after the page loads.

[{ breezes }]

alright, thanks for the help.