Integrating Gravatars into PunBB forums

PunBB already has it’s own Avatar system however I wanted to use the Gravatar site which is a central place to store avatar images.

To add gravatar functionality to PunBB you need to edit your viewtopic.php and look for the following line.

else
    $user_avatar = '';

And replace it with..

else
{
    $user_avatar = '<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=';
    $user_avatar .= md5($cur_post['email']);
    $user_avatar .= '&size=40" width="40" height="40" alt="" />';
}

This will automatically slect the graviatar based on the users email address.