Please, add avatar support for Elgg! Elgg is support avatars by default, look at its demo: http://community.elgg.org/pg/dashboard/ - this is an elgg 1.7 version on official site, there are all users with AVATARS! Current version of Elgg is 1.8.5! Like example, here is a code from commercial script arrowchat, to return url of the avatar in ELGG 1.8.5: /** * This function returns the URL of the avatar of the specified user ID. * * @param userid the user ID of the user * @param image if the image includes more than just a user ID, this param is passed * in from the avatar row in the buddylist and get user details functions. * @return the link of the user ID's profile */ function get_avatar($image, $user_id) { global $base_url; return $base_url . "../mod/profile/icondirect.php?joindate=" . $image . "&guid=" . $user_id . "&size=medium"; }