Changing the default meta image for sharing purposes
By Brent Williams on Thursday, 11 June 2015
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I realize that this might not be covered in the forums, but I was hoping you might help.... In EasyBlog, if there is no image in the blog, I was hoping to use the user's avatar as the default image for og:image. I tried altering the classes/facebook.php with this:

$source = $this->fetch( 'blog.avatar.php' , array( 'row' => $row ) );


That didn't seem to work. Is there a way to call the avatar for that particular blog?

Thanks!
Hello Brent,

Try the following code instead and see how it goes. 
// Default image using author avatar

$authorId = $blog->author->id;

$author = EasyBlogHelper::getTable( 'Profile' );

$author->load($authorId);

$avatarImage = $author->getAvatar();

$source = $avatarImage;
Ezrul Fazwan
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Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:18
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That's awesome! Thanks!

For anyone else who is interested in this solution, I am currently using JomSocial (although moving to EasySocial in the future), and I wanted to show the full avatar, not the thumb, so I slightly modified Ezrul's code:

		$authorId = $blog->author->id;

		$author = EasyBlogHelper::getTable( 'Profile' );

		$author->load($authorId);

		$avatarImage = $author->getAvatar();	

		$source = str_replace("thumb_","",$avatarImage);
Brent Williams
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Thursday, 11 June 2015 22:27
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Hello Brent,

Thanks for sharing. Glad that your issue has been resolved now.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Friday, 12 June 2015 11:07
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