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Jolten

06-04-2005 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corriewf

I was thinking this hack is cool for a second until I thought about the confusion it would cause with my members. Someone without an avatar could start posting under an alias and my less computer friendly members wouldnt think to check their profile to see who they are.....

What would make this hack much better would be to have the user name in quotes underneath the nickname chosen.

That's exactly the "confusion" I was referring to.

Qwest

06-04-2005 01:37 PM

LoL how on earth does this help anything?

OK we've shown you the obvious reasons why ths would simply cause confusion....

So at least tell us what or how SPECIFICALLY this benefits members.

All this does it take away admin control. Before an admin had to change your username. Now users can change it at will? This helps how?

Im sorry but the "if you have no use for it on your board dont use it" argument is a thoughtless copout! Explain your hack so it makes sense instead of telling people to just not use it. Doesn't that sound more like the mature thing to do?

Mythotical

06-05-2005 11:37 PM

Ok so far my reason has been said, its to make it harder for hackers to login to an account if they don't know the username thats why I always make it so guests can't view profiles but instead have to register then if they register, ip's are logged making it easier to find out who they are and which account they logged into. So a security feature is a good way of saying this is used for but I like other suggestions I got so me and my friend will get that taken care of. We will put either the username in quotes below the displayed name or make it so the username is not viewed in the profile but instead the profile.

BTW, this in no way allows the person to change their username, it only displays a different name instead of the username. Therefore admins would still have to change usernames.

I run RPG's so having a displayed name allows them to use the name to login that they use on every site without thinking of a new login then they just put in their character name in the displayed name field and no worries in that area.

Any other suggestions? I enjoy the suggestions thus far, if you have a special request for something like this then let me know, me and my friend will find away to make the hack then provide you with the hack.

Myth

King Kovifor

06-06-2005 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corriewf

Use this substitution:

Code:

<if condition="$show['profile']">

<if condition="$post['field5']">

<a class ="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[field5]</a>

</if><br />

"$post[musername]"

$post[onlinestatus]

<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script>

<else />

<if condition="$post['field5']">

$post[field5]

</if>

</if>

I don't have any screenshots of that though... But It works... This will be in an updated version being released soon.

Again Change [Field5] to your field #.

Corriewf

06-06-2005 05:49 PM

Looks awesome! Thanks for the update. Would be cool to be able to have a turn on turn off in admin control panel for those to use the original version and those to use this update.

Mythotical

06-06-2005 06:01 PM

Good idea Corrie, we will get on that right away.

Now what King Kovifor just posted is an alternative to what I had done. That will put it right below the Displayed Name but my code will put it above the title for that member. You can do either/or.

Myth

Corriewf

06-06-2005 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mythotical

So the options in the admin control panel could be:

Turn alias off
Turn alias on
Turn alias w/usernames on

Could be added to the vbulletin options section instead of creating its own section to conserve space.

I think this is a cool idea! :D

Mythotical

06-06-2005 11:31 PM

Ok I will get started on that. Just don't expect a new release anytime soon, gotta get it going then do extensive testing to make sure there are no bugs in the hack. Thanks again for the great suggestion.

King Kovifor

06-06-2005 11:51 PM

That's a great idea! That's something that Mythotical would have to edit... Mine would show up like this:

Public Name
"Registered Username"

OK You guys know how to add profile fields to the postbit right? Well if you go into the template add this and it should work as a postbit modification:

Option One:

Code:

First Name: $post[musername]

That should come out (as in the picture):

Original Username: Eternia

This is option two:

Code:

First Name: <a class ="smallusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>

It'll be the same outcome but it'll turn out with the orginal username as a link to the profile like it originally would.

Screens Provided

King Kovifor

06-06-2005 11:58 PM

Download the attatched file for newest release (also in first post this was at vbtemplates.com)

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