Including an Avatar to the Prime Nav Bar

I’m making an attempt so as to add an avatar picture to the highest nav menu. I’m presently utilizing this operate, which takes a customized hyperlink and replaces it with the presently logged in consumer’s title. That a part of the operate works wonderful.

My makes an attempt to switch the operate have not gotten me throughout the end line but. Sure, there’s a query on right here that’s type of similiar, Inserting PHP earlier than a menu aspect, whereas utilizing the inbuilt menu operate wp_nav_menu(), and I’ve learn it, however there is not actually sufficient clarification on it to assist me with my setup.

Here is the modified operate from my features.php file:

operate my_custom_menu_item($gadgets) {
$remove_childs_of = array();

if($item->title == "##currentuser##") {
    if(is_user_logged_in()) {
        $consumer=wp_get_current_user();
        $dimension = 'thumbnail';
        $imgURL='';

        if (function_exists('get_wpupa_url'))  
            $imgURL = get_wpupa_url($user->id, ['size' => $size]);

        echo "<img class='avatar-menu' src='" . $imgURL ."'>";  

        $title=$user->display_name; // or user_login , user_firstname, user_lastname
        $gadgets[$index]->title = $title;
    }
    else {
        array_push($remove_childs_of, $item->ID);
        unset($gadgets[$index]);
    }
}
if(!empty($remove_childs_of) && in_array($item->menu_item_parent, $remove_childs_of)) {
    array_push($remove_childs_of, $item->ID);
    unset($gadgets[$index]);
}

return $gadgets;
}
?>

Whereas this does technically work, since I am not really inserting the picture into the array of the operate $gadgets[$index] , that is maybe the place I am going improper?

Thanks for any solutions you nice of us may need. 🙂