will this work with 2.21? I'd like to use it for users who never post.

I'm very interested in this option!!!
Could you tell me more how do you think to use to 'incentivate' posts ?
I have about one user by two with 0 posts and don't figure how to 'force' them to post something.
I wouldn't use too restrictions like attachment hack and so on...

Please, give some hint.
Thanks

Popular is great but I found out, over in the Lounge, that I was having someone's baby! I'm still trying to convince my wife that it's hers! :frus: :D

SUPER!!!!! :D

THX!

I have test this on 2.2.1
At the first post, this works great but then I have a Database error we pdatoon. I have repair any tables.
Bye

well.. fun is allowed at vB.org to.. right? ;)

{bbusername} is a silly bear!

If I weren't serious with my remark about PHP version I wouldn't post it, would I?

Could be that the $fullpm was removed in version 2.2.2, because we are still running version 2.2.1 and that's where I test my hacks as well.

one of the best ever
i love this hack
thx Chen :)

Is there a way of restricting the for admins only!!

My users start abusing this nice hack, I don't want to remove it

Its possible, but I?m really not sure. I upgraded my forums to 2.2.2 via PPN?s hack he posted here, but don?t remember if that was a step.

Goes to check

Nope, I don?t see it in his update file as a change. Oddness.

Well, I can only guess, but maybe it's part of a hack (if it exists) that adds a "Your inbox is full" popup to pages, like "You have a new message". Or maybe that's already a feature... god I can't remember. :p

It's possible to limit this hack to admins, yes.
Replace this:
with this:

Very cute hack Firefly. It'll be great fun trying it out. :DYou don't need the hack to do that, though. Just use $username in the templates.

Totally pointless.

Great fun.

Although I hear {bbusername} is getting a bit sick of it.

Nope, I just didn't think that is what my problem was. Time to contact the server owner and tell him to upgrade!! :):)

Anyway's Firefly, its looks like a really fun hack.

I have been holding off unleashing it on my forums cuz i want to think of something really good to get them with! I know 1 or 2 people posted what they did, anyone else actually implement this on their site yet and feel like sharing?

http://forums.mediauk.com/showthread.php?threadid=13307

Oh, it's funny... even when people have realised what's going on, others don't realise... !!

This is the funniest hack I've installed... :)

The effect is rather spoilt by the <--! AUTO NAME HACK --> thing, so I removed that from the version I installed. The funniest bit is page 2, where two users both quote and reply to the text, saying how kind it is of me... !

HI James
thanks for the link, and if you dont mind, where did you remove it from? (I would love to do the same)

FireFly its my "you have a full pm box please empty me" hack to pester people with full pm boxes to remove some. So the $fullpm is from that.

Will it work on 2.0.3 forum?

Thanks,

Daniel.

One of our forum guides says... "I think you could have more fun if you had a random generator version!! That could really confuse people!!"

bwhaha great! I've posted my joke thread ;).

But I do actually have a serious use for this. For putting the forum name inside a post. (As I use cobranding on my forums)

The info I need is contained within the $bbuserinfo array. How can I alter the code so that it supports two replacements?

I assume if you aren't using .php3 (and you are using the default .php ext.) then that is the right version?

I've looked around a bit and I still can't see why it's not coming up right. I don't have any errors, just no cool hack. *lol*

Counts steps - Make two changes to functions.php & Upload.

Is that it?

Unless it has something to do with the fullpm hack, which I don't have, so I removed that bit of text from the coding. Would that effect it?

Anyone have a suggestion? I've edited the two places in my functions.php, uploaded, and tried it out. I see the actual string { bbusername } (without spaces, of course). I logged in as a regular member to see if it was my status, but the same thing. :s

Tried that and had it fail in 2.2.2. It displays other member's usernames for me when I go into the forum when just using that variable.

$bbuserinfo[username], SWFans.net.

this could become a bit of fun :)

I installed the hack on the board but the problem is it seems to muckup the postbit template. :( The user title on any posts I use it in comes out as "-" and it goes to display the away image instead of my edited online/offline postbit templates. The rest looks the same.

Any idea what causes this?

Um..I'm confused. What exactly does this do...?

I have found it does not work with the new security refinements in vb 2.2.x But was able to come up with a easy workaround.

Modify this :
to use :
and use =bbusername= in your posts.

hope this helps :classic:

hey i did this..

the {bbusername} works in the thread title but not in the actual thread..

any ideas why?

Install the fix by smachol in the sticky thread in this forum.

will this work with 2.2.4 ???

Yes.

Just as note to let everyone know I used this hack with predictably funny results as a April Fool's Day joke on my board. I combined it with Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator and the resulting thread set a one day record for responses and views on my forums.

You can see the results here:

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=4330

LOL I created a monster. :D Nice going Steve.

Sorry to bring this back up again, but are there only two steps to this? All I see is two changes two changes to functions.php and it ends there.... It doesn't say save and reupload, so I'm not sure if it ends there....

Well? I'd really like to install it, but it seems like there has to be more than what I just said above....