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UKBL ~ Auto Rotating Avatars
Developer Last Online: Feb 2012 
UKBL ~ Auto Rotating Avatars     Heres a nice hack which will let you, your moderators, and perhaps as a treat for your members, the ability to rotate their avatars on every frefresh. Imagine having an avatar directory and a nice collection of avatars, which will automatically refresh every time you open a new page or refresh your screen. You can use this just for yourself, your staff and perhaps offer it as a paid item to your members. Interested ? Lets get going............ Step 1 First step is to create a .htaccess file,add the following line to it
What this does is, it makes the PHP file parse as a graphic file readable by VBulletin, If you just added the rotate.php as a url in your upload avatar box it would simply come back as invaild file. The Apache Web server provides a feature called .htaccess file, which provides commands to control a Web site. This file is simply a text file containing Apache directives. Those directives apply to the documents in the directory where the file is located, and to all subdirectories under it as well. Other .htaccess files in subdirectories may change or nullify the effects of those in parent directories. You can use any text editor to create or make changes to .htaccess files. Keep in mind that commands in these files should be placed on one line only, so if your text editor uses word-wrap, make sure it's disabled. Be sure .htaccess file is uploaded in ASCII mode, not BINARY, or it won't work. Your text editor or operating system may probably not allow to save file as .htaccess. The solution is to save the file as htaccess.txt and upload it to your server. After doing that, you should use your FTP client and rename the file to it's proper name. Referance: .htaccess file - short tutorial and the most notable and useful htaccess examples. http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/advanc...ess-file.shtml Ok guys, thats part one done Now Lets get the coding done.. Step 2 Open Notebook or a similar text editor on your PC and copy the following .PHP code
Save the file as rotate.gif. Once thats done, Just make a new directory on your server, called "avatar" and upload all your Avatar graphics to this directory using your FTP package or even Cpanel, whatever your comfortable with. I have made this for Gif files only, you need to make sure the avatar files are all in gif format, any others will not load, if you want to use a diffent graphics format, you need to edit the .htaccess code as well as changing the gif referance in the php code. Now we need to upload our rotate.gif file (the one with the php code in) Our graphics and our .htaccess file all to the avatar directory. Then all we need to do is go to our UserCP and enter our Avatar directory url, pointing to our rotate.gif file, something like this..
Just add your url to your box shown below.  Remember you also need to keep within the avatar rules of the site, if the rules state 70 x 70 px avatars, it won't work if you upload 80 x 80 or even a larger file file than is permissable. Thats its, I've no screenshots, but if you would like your site to be listed as a demo site please PM me, First 3 requests only please  As always please click install and i'll support you 100% Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Screenshots
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12 Aug 2009, 19:56
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Congratulations on the release of this, and a thumbs up for getting this in 4 versions
 Definitely will use this soon. Thanks for the effort. No members have liked this post.
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12 Aug 2009, 20:04
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Originally Posted by vB Tree
Thanks VB Tree, Its pretty bog standard should work on any version really, Never forget the 3.5 guys 
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Last edited by UKBusinessLive; 12 Aug 2009 at 20:25.
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13 Aug 2009, 00:30
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Very good .. Congratulations!
But I want something different, I would turn this option only for users who have no avatar. It would be possible to include this option? No members have liked this post.
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13 Aug 2009, 00:38
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very good.i will try.thanks.
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13 Aug 2009, 00:47
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Originally Posted by Manoel Júnior
That would be cool
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13 Aug 2009, 06:47
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The only way i could think of anything like that would be if you used it with that hack that adds an avatar for members that don't have one??
i guess that would be cool
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13 Aug 2009, 06:57
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Originally Posted by Manoel Júnior
Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive
Well, I have something else is mind for getting this to work. I might work on this tomorrow if I have time.
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13 Aug 2009, 15:12
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Couple questions
1 - How can we have both gif and jpg images allowable? 2 - Can avatars be uploaded using the "Browse" button? Thanks No members have liked this post.
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13 Aug 2009, 15:20
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Gerry this is a great hack. I was rotating avatars through a simple plugin on April 1-st last year. Everyone liked it.
But your version is much better and there is still room for more improvement. No members have liked this post.
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13 Aug 2009, 18:22
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Originally Posted by valdet
Hi Val,
Great to see your still about buddy and that fatherhood has not kept you from your friends here This was just a quick get together, using a .htaccess file so that the PHP file could be read as a gif file. I have been looking at another way of making this work, but by using it for Signatures, Its slightly different in the code and you don't need an .htaccess file, so i guess you could use either code for the same purpose, i'll list it later and peeps can decide which to go for. By all means use this code for any improvements, you can do, afterall we're all for helping each other Hope that lovely Daughter of yours is letting you sleep 
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13 Aug 2009, 18:25
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Originally Posted by Saint_I_Am
Hi Buddy,
You can pic and mix your graphics in this one, but the hack i'm uploading tonight which does auto rotating signatures, you'll be able to use that for your avatars, and upload whatever graphics allowed by the site admin Avatars are held in the "Avatar" directory and the filename which you need to add in your Avatar Url box is the one called rotate.gif - which really is the .php code
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13 Aug 2009, 18:26
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Originally Posted by Redlinemotorsports
Be my guest
I'm all for improvement 
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13 Aug 2009, 18:30
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Verry nice ,
Thanks , installed Thank you ... رمضان مبارك للجميع
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13 Aug 2009, 18:34
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Originally Posted by 4nawadir.com
Your Welcomed Abdallah,
Wait till you see my Rotating "Clickable" Signature hack  here goes http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=220807Have fun
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Last edited by UKBusinessLive; 13 Aug 2009 at 19:23.
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