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User Display aims at providing a centralized configuration and extendable API to consistently display user names and pictures (avatars) across a site. By supporting User Display's API, third party modules give site owners complete control over how user names and pictures should be shown. For example, users in the "Who's online" block may be displayed with their picture only, while users in comments could be shown with their name, picture, and other elements.Another feature of User Display is the Action Links submodule, an AHAH driven, customizable context menu for user links, allowing users to execute various user related actions, for example write a private message or add a user to the buddy list.Please note this module is currently in alpha stage, and lacks a usable administrative UI. The core functionality, however, is already working, but needs to be "configured" by manipulating the $conf array in settings.php.BackgroundUsers are visually represented by display styles. A style can consist of various configurable elements that we call decorators, for example user name, picture, online status, role, etc. By leveraging User Display's API, third party modules are able to extend the available elements, for example add a country flag based on user profile data.Third party modules that wish to integrate User Display are required to append a (more or less) unique display class to user related theme calls, and make this list available to User Display. See "Developer info" below for more information.Integration * User Display has built-in support for ImageCache (for consistent user pictures across the site) and Views. * Support for Drupal core output (i.e. blocks, nodes, comments) requires a patch for phptemplate.engine. * Contrib modules that (will) support User Display: Guestbook, Buddylist, Privatemsg
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Comments, Display, Elements, Modules, Names, Party, Picture, Pictures, Related, Shown, Support, Users |
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