PHP Code for displaying Username and Avatar

ES's modules don't quite display the username how I want it to display (but it does come incredibly close). I'm wanting to display my avatar next to my username very similarly to the ES drop down menu. In my case I want the avatar and the profile pic to link to the user's profile rather than a drop down menu. Another module sorta did this but didn't have as good of formatting and the profile pic did not link to the users profile.

From what I've gathered the stacked team is probably too busy to change some display settings to the module. Assuming that's true, what is the PHP code for displaying the avatar and the user profile? I'm not savvy at all with PHP, I made an attempt with the following codes:

<img src="/<?php echo $my->getAvatar( SOCIAL_AVATAR_MEDIUM );?>" alt="<?php echo $modules->html( 'string.escape' , $my->getName() );?>" />



<a href="/<?php echo $my->getPermalink();?>" class="user-name-link"><?php echo $my->getName();?></a>

Depending on how I went about it, the code either didn't work or would make the page go blank. Right now I'm in the process of re-doing some of my site's layout to make things as easy as possible for my users.