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Due to the pricing and yearly fee of vBulletin I am no longer creating mods for vBulletin, instead I have stepped out of the shadow of vBulletin to create my own stand alone mods. I wish to thank everyone who downloaded and installed my mods but as of now with not being able to afford hosting and vBulletin, I decided to drop vBulletin so hopes of me returning would only happen if my newest venture brings me a nice profit.

Thank you all again
Steve

So this basically gives every user the ability to have an alias that's displayed but the username stays the same and can be viewed by everyone on their profile page?

What's the point? other than shear confusion.

lol calm down man. How can you not see a use in this? People can put there real name they want used instead of some nickname they came up with earlier..this is great mod.

Nobody is forcing you to use this Jolten. If you have a board where this makes sense, use it. Otherwise leave it.

I wasn't meaning to come down hard on this. I just don't see the point. Register with the name you wish to use.

I think it's a GREAT idea.

It provides a small amount of security....think about it....the hackers will have a hard time guesing the real username.

I think it's brilliant.

not if it's displayed in the public profile.

Make sure you change the field5 to your field#.

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.

agreed

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

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?

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

Use this substitution:

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 #.

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.

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

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

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.

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:

That should come out (as in the picture):

Original Username: Eternia

This is option two:

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

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

That last code that King just posted, I suggest just naming what you want because if you have a user with an extremely long name then that would cause problems.

They Work... Screenshots attached to previous post. The second option actually takes the username to the profile. No other options.

Did a quick edit and changed it to a somewhat shorter quote: First Name

Ok the admin on/off switchs are giving me problems but hopefully I will get them solved.

*Updated Version was Added*

I like it. It's especially good for large communities of boards, so the admin doesn't have to screw around with usernames and mess people up(I've had people request for me to change their names, which is alright since my board is small, though the point stands that it can confuse people if you mess around with the registered username.)

Your right Jimmi, it can get confusing but that is why I am currently working on adding a few more features to help make it better such as the admin switches and even more.

I am currently porting 1.3 over to 3.5 so it should be done within a few mins.

This is the best option as it wont impact portal pages.....


Thanks for taking me up on the suggestions as I think this hack is now 3 times better then it was and still using the same concept.


Thanks.

Mythotical, King Kovifor: Looking good guys. :)

Thanks KW, but soon the hack will be considered fully mine except for a small invert cuz King Kovifor can't do php coding like I can and this is starting to turn out to use alot of php coding.

Opps forgot to click install....Now done. Much props. :)

NP corrie, if you plan to run vb 3.5, I have ported this over to that version as well. So enjoy and I plan to convert a few 2.x.x hacks over to vb 3.5 over time. Badges Hackette is one of them I am porting over due to my use of it.

If you have any other suggestions, please email me or contact me over messenger. I would like to discuss your ideas even further that you may have about this hack.

Myth

Thanks Kevin!

That's true... I did the original code (the first release) and than we we adding features and things and than it went into PHP coding... Two things that I can't do:

Never tried PHP.
I can't I don't have the access.

I am sure if had to you wouldnt have a problem :)

I don't know, I offered him access to the files and he said no so I don't know about that Corrie.

I said no for two reasons:

1. I've never done anything PHP but I'd learn in a safer enviroment: My own server where I could mess anything up and not piss anyone off.
2. I'm 13 and could do anything to the files which I wouldn't do to mythotical.

Very smart for 13. ;)

Well this is going through a code update, it shall be updated in the coming months with new features and it will be renamed to Alias for VB 3.0.7

Cheers
Myth

in the 3.5 version, I fully understand the advantage of this system.
will your hack work on 3.5 ?

here is my original post (that was not answered till this day..:surprised: )

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=115134

thanks
Yaniv

This mod does not work with 3.5.x. One that does the same thing for 3.5.x is Alias v2.1

This is no longer being supported. Please use Alias 2.1 found in Kerry-Anne's post.