I would like this as well.

The messages in your thread further prove ChrisChristian's last post.

Thanks for the effort Hex_legend! :up:


But the template edit/profile field don?t work properly. We need a real solution (hack) for this. :up:

Just thinking this would probably be fairly easy.

At first thought there are 5123023 pages that mention username, but they all reference it by $username or $musername (from memory).

If you write a hook that changes these variables just after they get written, then you wouldn't really need to alter any pages at all.

This is a much needed feature. We need a real hack for this. IPB has this feature for years and it´s VERY usefull.

Whats the advantage of it?

For a forum where you want a real name to be shown, or a character name (for those boards for RPG's etc), it allows for the login name or username) to be hidden and ONLY the Display Name to be used.

If the username happens to be the Display name, all well and good, then the display name box remain empty.

From experience, people on vbulletin boards seldom link the username box to a real name at teh registration process, even when you ask them to do so.

Other boards like SMF, IPB, and all of those have this field by default and have done so for years and others have them as modification add-ons.

It is a MUCH NEEDED item as either a default item on the board (along with username) - preferable, or a mod that can be installed that does the same thing (although the downfall is each time VB releases updates the mod has to be fixed so the scripting all works).

To me there seems a very high demand for this which all other boards already have by default...

I have been looking and looking and looking for this function for my own board and have found absolutely none that do what they should AND work properly.

I also need something to implement display names. Currently I've got a custom profile field and replaced the username in postbit with $post[field6], but that doesn't affect anything but postbit. A real hack for this would either need to add the custom field into the thread/post table, or perform lots of additional lookups for each thread/post.

I have opened a thread on the official website.
Please put some pressure on the cattle there.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=281835

Ron