How to display user avatar in Drupal 7?

Question

I'd like to know how to display a user avatar in Drupal 7. I want to display the avatar in full size and as the thumbnail.

Answer 1

You can use something like:

$user_item = user_load_by_name($username); // or user_load( $user->uid )
print theme('user_picture', array('account' =>$user_item));