sharing avitar directory

each forum is installed at a different domain - am not sure how I would use ../ to make the path name relative?

But if the directory is the same for both forums, what would happen when ID5 from one forum tries to upload an avatar, overwriting ID5 from the other forum?

Is there a hack to get punBB to add a prefix to the avatar file name?

ie:
forum#1 writes files as a1.jpg, a2jpg, a3jpg
forum#2 writes files as b1.jpg, b2jpg, b3jpg

and then the previous soultion might work...

Thanks for your reply Connorhd,

But that would not suit my needs, as the two forums to share avitas - they are on sites with simmilar content (just different masthead and domain names - client request...) but sharing a forum database...

At the moment you can log in to either sites forum (with shareed db) as one user - and in the site that you registered with you can see your avitar, but on the site that you did not register with you can not see your avitar.

Thanks again Connorhd,

Both forums are now writing to the corect shared directory.

forum a writes to: img/avatars
forum b writes to: ../../../../site_a/www/www/forum/img/avatars

This has presented a new issue -

forum a reads from: http://domain_a/forum/img/avatars/3.jpg
forum b reads from: http://domain_b/site_a/www/www/forum/img/avatars (therefore broken img link)

How do I change forum b so that it reads from ../../../../site_a/www/www/forum/img/avatars ?

Thanks!

Thanks for that Smartys,

Sounds like something I would like to try.

What files do I need to change $pun_config['o_avatars_dir']
and what would I change it to?

Thanks.

Thankyou for your help Smartys,
I am new to php and am very stuck on this friday night... ('cause it dont work!)

Snippet from avitar section of profile.php code, with new path to shared avatar directory added:

                    <fieldset id="profileavatar">
                        <legend><?php echo $lang_profile['Avatar legend'] ?></legend>
                        <div class="infldset">
<?php if (isset($avatar_format)): ?>                    <img src="<?php echo $pun_config['http://www.shared-avatar-directory-domain.com/img/avatars'].'/'.$id.'.'.$avatar_format ?>" <?php echo $img_size[3] ?> alt="" />
<?php endif; ?>                    <p><?php echo $lang_profile['Avatar info'] ?></p>

Thanks mate!

Thankyou very much for your help! Will try it tomorrow and let you know as am now close to the bottom of a bottle of red wine.

bahhhha!
programming + red wine = parse errors

can some one please put me out of my misery!

what do I put in here?...

<img src="<?php echo $pun_config['o_avatars_dir'].'/'.$id.'.'.$avatar_format ?>"

beacuse

<img src="<?php echo http://www.shared-avatar-dir-domain.com/img/avatars.'/'.$id.'.'.$avatar_format ?>"

and all my other random drunken combinations dont work.

<strong>bugger.</strong>