How to upload avatar programatically?

  • Resolved JP3

    (@jp3)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi!

    Wonderful plugin. It does an amazing job.

    On snag I’ve run into and I’m not sure the proper way to handle it because of the custom DB tables along with the user meta values.

    I just want to upload avatars for members programatically without using any frontend, and have Avatar Privacy process/handle it the way that it should.

    I have a directory of images to loop through and intended to do something like this per each image/user_id after adding the images to the library and getting IDs:
    update_user_meta($user_id, $wpdb->get_blog_prefix() . ‘user_avatar’, $attach_id);
    …but it’s now “avatar_privacy_user_avatar” as the meta key, it’s an array, and there’s a lot more custom DB stuff behind the scenes. So I’m confused how to do this with the plugin.

    I’m hoping to use a magic “avatar_privacy_upload_avatar()” function I can pass the user_id and either the file URI (not uploaded) or attach_id (uploaded), and Avatar Privacy do all the magic it has to.

    If there’s no straightforward way to do this, then I want to suggest this as a feature request.

    As an added bonus, having the ability to set these programatically:
    “Display a Gravatar image for my e-mail address.”
    &
    “Allow logged-out comments with my profile picture.”

    a magic function like
    avatar_privacy_update_user($user_id, $attach_id=NULL, $delete_old=TRUE, $display_gravatar=FALSE, $display_logged_out=FALSE)

    Thanks for your time.

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  • Plugin Author pepe

    (@pputzer)

    There is a way to update “user settings” programmatically, but not for uploading avatar images. I’ll add it as a feature request on GitHub.

    Here’s how to access Avatar Privacy’s API:

    $api = \Avatar_Privacy\Core::get_instance();

/**
 * Ensures that the comment author gravatar policy is updated.
 *
 * @param  string $email        The comment author's mail address.
 * @param  int    $comment_id   The comment ID.
 * @param  int    $use_gravatar 1 if Gravatar.com is enabled, 0 otherwise.
 */
$api->update_comment_author_gravatar_use( $email, $comment_id, $use_gravatar );

    For the user settings, you don’t need the actual API instance, this is just handled by the standard user meta API. However, the meta keys are available as constants in \Avatar_Privacy\Core:

    • \Avatar_Privacy\Core::EMAIL_HASH_META_KEY
    • \Avatar_Privacy\Core::GRAVATAR_USE_META_KEY
    • \Avatar_Privacy\Core::ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_META_KEY
    • \Avatar_Privacy\Core::USER_AVATAR_META_KEY

    But yes, having convenient function method to update all settings in one go is probably a good idea. I’ll have to think about a good way to do it, though. Maybe a fa?ade is best here instead of direct use of the Core API.

    Plugin Author pepe

    (@pputzer)

    Hi @jp3, I’ve no created two enhancement requests on GitHub to track this (#161, #162). If possible, we should continue the discussion there (unless you need more information on the current API).

    Thread Starter JP3

    (@jp3)

    Thanks for the quick and detailed responses!

    To be honest, I have an entire old VBulletin site I’m migrating over to WP, and I have so many other more important things to tackle, that I don’t have the time right now to mess with avatars.

    I WANT to use Avatar Privacy, but for now, I switched over to Simple User Avatar. It stores the avatar as the media file id in usermeta [‘mm_sua_attachment_id’].

    The idea is that I can move along on my site conversion and tackle the bigger fish, and when it’s quickly/easily a possibility, switch back to Avatar Privacy and move all current [‘mm_sua_attachment_id’] media ids over.

    Thanks again for the response and potentially adding this “add/update programmatically” feature in the future.

    Plugin Author pepe

    (@pputzer)

    Hi @jp3 I’m currently working on that API I promised. Since currently user avatars are not part of the media library, would prefer to have a file name or the actual image data when setting a user avatar? (It would be copied to the standard location in either case.)

    Plugin Author pepe

    (@pputzer)

    Hi @jp3, the requested API will land in Avatar Privacy 2.4.0. You can preview the methods here.

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