About Avatars in a PHP website

Hello everybody

I am working on a communiy type site , now I need to include avatars in it... Can anyone help me out that how can i include avatars in my site like yahoo.
when new users some to register thier they can give thier PHOTO or can make an avatart for thier self.

Ragards
sohail

 

You would need a file upload script, so that users can upload their images.

Or link them, save it to a database, then display it later.

 

I can do Upto 2mb File uploading on fingure tips

My problem is I want to provide the facility like yahoo avatars, moving , custom avatars , every one decide his own. I want users to provide thier pics and then thier avatar will be generated automatically, Or if it is not possible then I would like the users to choose from a collections of existing avatars on my site.

Is there any way to do it . I really need it.

Regards
sohail

 

if you're moderately good php coder. what i'd do is make an upload script, you can even find the code for free, just google. make sure your hosting has php upload enabled in the php.ini file.

then just let your users upload. and what happens is that the upload form will rename the file to a unique id and then link it to the user's account, using a database field. so that way, to display, you just have to create a recordset filtered by the logged in user's account name, then display the image file by grabbing the file name from the database field.

not too hard actually.

 

What you need it very hard to do with PHP I think a better solution is to use Java applets or Flash for this

 

Hard? On the contrary, something like this is very straight forward and simple.

 

I worked alot on file upload script , but this is not my problem

I want avatars like yahoo avatrs(moving), user can make his custom avatars , the java applet or Flash pklug in would be needed i thnk. its most probably the flash plug in, but i cant make a plugin like that , i know flash but of that level. I need such plug in that i put in my page and let the users choose thier custom avatar.

i need avatars like http://www.avatars.yahoo.com

plz if some one can help

kind regards
sohail

 

Hmm..maybe you can create 3 (three) extra fields or more in your users table in the database.
Let's say,
head, body, and foot.
each columns will store the path to the image of the user's selected head, body, or foot.
then combine them together to form a complete avatar.



kinda like that..zzz

 

well all of you give me wonderfull solution and ideas specially you "djzmo". your solution is wonderfull as well. thank you so much

Now i found the solution to my problem, and i am here to share with you.

look at this article

http://www.partdigital.com/tutorials/custom-avatar

This is article is exactly what i was looking for. this creates the image throug GD library on runtime by combining several images like head, hands, hairs, shirt etc ect. Hope you will find this handy too

thanks alot

Best Regards
sohail