How to recreate the user_picture field?

Question

On Drupal 8 there is by default a user_picture field for the user's photo. When I started my site several months ago, I deleted this field because I did not use it.

Today I need this field, so I created an image type field.

MY PROBLEM : I installed some modules that use the user's photo, but it can not be found because the user_picture is the default

If I create a user_picture field it automatically adds field_ in front of the machine name.

Is it possible to restore the default field with the correct machine name ?

Answer 1

Instead of importing configuration as suggested previously, you could as an alternative, programmatically re-create the field. Here is some code that does that.

<?php

use Drupal\field\Entity\FieldConfig;
use Drupal\field\Entity\FieldStorageConfig;


// Create the user profile field and instance.
FieldStorageConfig::create([
  'entity_type' => 'user',
  'field_name' => 'user_picture',
  'type' => 'image',
  'translatable' => '0',
])->save();
FieldConfig::create([
  'label' => 'User Picture',
  'description' => '',
  'field_name' => 'user_picture',
  'entity_type' => 'user',
  'bundle' => 'user',
  'required' => 0,
])->save();

Assuming the code above is placed in a file called recreateUserPicture.php that is stored in your docroot, you can run the following Drush command:

drush scr recreateUserPicture.php

Best of luck!

N.B.: An alternative answer (since the importing of configuration from the standard profile has a problem with having the field being available in Views UI).

Answer 2

This can be handled using the install configuration that the standard profile holds. Easiest way would be using drupal's console, that would mean following these steps (from inside your docroot):

1. drupal config:import:single --file=core/profiles/standard/config/install/field.storage.user.user_picture.yml
2. drupal config:import:single --file=core/profiles/standard/config/install/field.field.user.user.user_picture.yml
3. drupal update:entities

In case you can't work on the terminal using drupal console, you can import these two configuration from the administrative interface. This can be found under the admin/config/development/configuration/single/import URL (relative to your host's name). From there, you need to import twice, one time the file storage configuration (contents of core/profiles/standard/config/install/field.storage.user.user_picture.yml) and the second would be the file configuration (contents of core/profiles/standard/config/install/field.field.user.user.user_picture.yml).

Hope this helps, good luck!