Custom avatars

[prathviraj080]

I've profile images for all the users and I'm storing it in Meteor.users collection. Is there any way I can display these URLs instead of default ones?

[matteodem]

Not sure why this is not implemented yet.

• Check if utilities:avatar pkg is still needed
• Add possibility to define custom avatar images

[delay]

The way I handled this since you can define a custom template for any part: I made a custom singleComment template. And altered the default template with this code.

{{> commentsBox id=post._id singleCommentTemplate="singleComment" }}

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Then I created a helper. `Template.singleComment.helpers({

getAvatar: function() { 
    var user = Meteor.users.findOne(this.userId);
    var imageAvatar = Comments.ui.config().defaultAvatar;
    var customAvatar = user && user.profile && user.profile.customAvatar; //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25758476/exception-in-template-helper-typeerror-cannot-read-property-profile-of-undef
    if (customAvatar === 1) {
        imageAvatar = "http://yourdomain.com/image/"+this.userId+".png";
    }
    return imageAvatar;
}

});`

There is probably a better way to do this but that's how I handled it.

Yeah for now that's a solution that works, it'd be cool though to have something that's easily configurable.

[prathviraj080]

+1 @delay

[matteodem]

This is possible now over the public API https://github.com/ARKHAM-Enterprises/meteor-comments-ui/blob/master/GUIDE.md#custom-avatars