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One of my members at the Sonic Station recently reported that using an avatar rotator as an avatar URL doesn't work. It gives them an error about it not being a valid avatar URL. See below screenshot.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/63404079/rotavafail.JPG

This is the script I use to rotate my avatars

<?php
/*******************************************************************************
*    PHP AVATAR ROTATOR
*       VERSION 2
*******************************************************************************/

$path = "";    // Path to your avatar folder relative to the root directory of your site

/******************************************************************************
*       DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE!
******************************************************************************/

$dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$path;
$avatars = array();

// Open avatar directory and read its contents into an array
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            if (filetype($dir.$file) == "file" && getimagesize($dir.$file)) {
                array_push($avatars, $file);
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}

// Create random avatar
$img = $dir.$avatars[rand(0, count($avatars)-1)];
$info = getimagesize($img);

if ($info[2] == 2)
    header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');

elseif ($info[2] == 3)
    header('Content-Type: image/png');

else
    header('Content-Type: image/gif');

readfile($img);
?>

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I guess I should post on how to use

1. Turn script into a php file put in your root dir give it a name like rotator so you get rotator.php
2. fill in "$path = ""; // Path to your avatar folder relative to the root directory of your site" where avatars are located.
3. then http://www.yoursite.whatever.rotator.php for your avatar url