Installation At the module installation, a picture storage directory will be created automatically (uploads/pictureurl). To use the smarty variable, you must modify the file header.php, at your website root. Yous must paste the following code just before the line // Weird, but need extra tags for 2.0.x themes , for example. // module pictureurl Philou include_once XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/modules/pictureurl/include/function.php'; $xoopsTpl->assign('xoops_pictureurl', xoops_getpictureurl()); $xoopsTpl->assign('xoops_pictureurlcss', xoops_getpictureurlcss()); // end pictureurl Philou Smarty variables integration in your theme or template Edit the file theme.html for example and insert <{$xoops_pictureurl}> or <{$xoops_pictureurlcss}> at the place where your picture must be displayed. Don't forget to answer yes in admin system, preferences, general parameters, Theme, files update by themes/ directory in order to validate your modification.