Alternate account for specific forums

[retrofade]

On my board, we have some users playing a D&D game in a specific forum setup for that purpose. I was wondering if it might be possible to set the forum up in such a way so that when specified users posted in that forum, it would show them as a different "account" or alter-ego of their choosing with a different avatar than their standard one as well.

I know this can be done by just having them register with that username and set their access to only be able to post in that forum....but I don't really want to have to do that.

I hope I made some sense...if not, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.

[Dan]

On my board, we have some users playing a D&D game in a specific forum setup for that purpose. I was wondering if it might be possible to set the forum up in such a way so that when specified users posted in that forum, it would show them as a different "account" or alter-ego of their choosing with a different avatar than their standard one as well.

I know this can be done by just having them register with that username and set their access to only be able to post in that forum....but I don't really want to have to do that.

I hope I made some sense...if not, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.
It can be done with <if> statements and custom profile fields. I can show you but I cannot right now since I'm at work and don't have the resources on me to show you how.

[nexialys]

this can be done easily, yes... add a new field in the profile, so users enter their Alias, and in the forum settings, change to display that Alias when set... this can be done in 5 minutes...

[retrofade]

this can be done easily, yes... add a new field in the profile, so users enter their Alias, and in the forum settings, change to display that Alias when set... this can be done in 5 minutes...

where would you set it to display in the forum settings? I'm wanting this to replace their username and avatar in this specific forum.

[PIF]

Any chance of a step by step guide. If you have the time ? I would like to use it but have very limited programming knowledge.

[nexialys]

i'm always giving suggestions here (suggestions are free and helpful for other guys avail for jobs), but read my sig for details on job...

[retrofade]

anyone else have any ideas....or willing to help me out....unfortunately, I (and the rest of our admin team) don't really have a ton of extra cash laying around to put into our forum, so paying for a hack unfortunately isn't quite feasable at the moment.

[retrofade]

gonna bump this up and see if anyone else has ideas