Image style is not rendering

Question

My field_image is not rendering on user-profile.tpl. I have the following code (two different ways to render for testing):

    $image = field_get_items('user', $user, 'field_image');
    $output = field_view_value('user', $user, 'field_image', $image[0], array(
      'type' => 'image',
      'settings' => array(
        'image_style' => 'header_image_160x160',
      ),
    ));
    print render($output);

This produces the following in html:

<img src="https://coinme.io/sites/default/files/styles/header_image_160x160/public?itok=f31sbmSd" width="160" height="160" alt="">

I get the dead image logo. It is missing the final part of the file structure. And this is how I normally render:

$to_render = field_view_field('user', $user, 'field_image', array('settings' => array('image_style' => 'header_image_160x160'))); print render($to_render);

This is showing the default image, even though the image does exist:

https://coinme.io/sites/default/files/styles/header_image_160x160/public/images/profile/profile-large.png?itok=rb-2qFOw

I have the same field in a content type which is rendering correctly (only difference being the $user user -> $node node.

<?php $to_render = field_view_field('node', $node, 'field_image', array('settings' => array('image_style' => 'header_image_160x160'))); print render($to_render);?>

So it appears that when using user-profile specifically is the issue. I have also tried adding a new field type and same effect. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Paul.

Answer 1

The answer was simple: $user is the logged-in user; since the logged-in user didn't have a profile image, I got the default image.

Elsewhere on the page, I wasn't using $user, but all the variables whose ID started with $field_, so it looked like I was using the right variable. This fixed it.

$account = $elements['#account'];

Then, I updated $user to $account.

$to_render = field_view_field('user', $account, 'field_image', array('settings' => array('image_style' => 'header_image_160x160'))); print render($to_render);