// Close the avatar directory
		closedir( $av_dir );

		// If we found a locally uploaded avatar
		if ( isset( $avatar_url ) ) {

			// Return it wrapped in an <img> element
			if ( true === $html ) {
				return apply_filters( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar', '<img src="' . $avatar_url . '" alt="' . esc_attr( $alt ) . '" class="' . esc_attr( $class ) . '"' . $css_id . $html_width . $html_height . $title . ' />', $params, $item_id, $avatar_dir, $css_id, $html_width, $html_height, $avatar_folder_url, $avatar_folder_dir );

			// ...or only the URL
			} else {
				return apply_filters( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_url', $avatar_url );
			}
		}
	}

	// If no avatars could be found, try to display a gravatar

		$email    = apply_filters( 'bp_core_gravatar_email', $email, $item_id, $object );
		$gravatar = apply_filters( 'bp_gravatar_url', $host ) . md5( strtolower( $email ) ) . '?d=' . $default_grav . '&s=' . $grav_size;

	} else {
		// No avatar was found, and we've been told not to use a gravatar.
		$gravatar = apply_filters( "bp_core_default_avatar_$object", BP_PLUGIN_URL . '/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg', $params );
	}

	if ( true === $html )
		return apply_filters( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar', '<img src="' . $gravatar . '" alt="' . esc_attr( $alt ) . '" class="' . esc_attr( $class ) . '"' . $css_id . $html_width . $html_height . $title . ' />', $params, $item_id, $avatar_dir, $css_id, $html_width, $html_height, $avatar_folder_url, $avatar_folder_dir );
	else
		return apply_filters( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_url', $gravatar );
}

/**
 * Delete an existing avatar
 *
 * Accepted values for $args are:
 *  item_id - item id which relates to the object type.
 *  object - the objetc type user, group, blog, etc.