Identicon Avatars

[Euan T]

Looks like a nice idea Paul. I definitely agree with the idea of caching though.

[Maj]

1. avatars (it seems they have transparency) looks bad on dark backgrounds:



I suppose white color must be fully transparent. But now there some "noisy holes" there)

2. identicons don't displays in profiles, memberlist, etc...

[crazy4cs]

This user has been denied support.

^Paul, have you added the hooks in memprofile and all as well so they show up there? If not, you might wanna add it for next versions.

[Maj]

3. Registered users with same IP adress have same avatar. It's also not good. I think each registered user must have unique avatar. You can modify hash based on user's ID.

[Paul H.]

I will be making some massive changes in the next version. This really was just a beta release.

[Paul H.]

I'm testing my cache system out with my avatar here on MyBB. It should work.

[Maj]

It's works.



Btw... is there any settings to control complexity of images? Now it uses 3x3 matrix to produce images. What about 5x5? )

[Paul H.]

You would have to edit the ./identicon.php file. It's not my script, though, so I don't know how to do it off the top of my head.

[Maj]

No problems! That's not necessary.

[Maj]

I made my avatars based on user's ID. It solves 2 problems:

1. Now each registered user have it's own unique avatar.
2. No more security risk of exposing user IP addresses.

To do it, open identicon_avatar.php, find:

if($post['uid']) {$ip = $post['regip'];} else {$ip = $post['ipaddress'];}

and change it to:

if($post['uid']) {$ip = $post['uid'];} else {$ip = $post['ipaddress'];}