Change threadbit if user is deleted
 

Hey,

i am trying to change the content of the author div in threadbit, base on whether the user is deleted or not.

This is the default threadbit author div of the template i use (and also the default vbulletin4 i belive)
This results in
Which is fine for existing users, but if the user is deleted the query results in
So i tried to get the username from {vb:raw post.username}
Which works fine, but there is no markup for the usernames and vbulletin is making the username linking to root dir.
I tried hard-linking the variables, which works too
but has no phrase support for non-english users and i still lack the if condition.

My questions are:
- How can i test in the template whether the user still exists or not with some <vb:if> (or something else)

IF user exists
Started by Username with markup and all
ELSE
Started by Deletedusername just plain text

- and how can i then use phrase replacements without vbulletin marking the deleted usernames as links?

Any suggestions?

Regards

Why not just try this mod, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=245183

I found this too while searching for a solution, but i don't want to have to do it for manually every thread of a user i delete/that gets deleted in a cleanup process.

(Also i am pretty sure that the query would still return empty since the username doesn't exist anymore, but can be accessed via {vb:raw post.username})

So changing the template query seems the better solution to me. (And i don't have to install another mod that may or may not interfer with other mods/custom modifications)

Search up "One touch ban and clean" here.

For your condition, you can look to see of $post[userid] > 0. Basically, deleted users no longer have a userid.

Thanks, but that still does not display the deleted username in the threadbit of forumdisplay.

(Which is probably not the main goal for the modification to begin with)

Okay, i will try that.

Right, because once you use the one touch ban and clean there is nothing to display.

Maybe I don't understand the problem or the circumstances. My post was about how to avoid this issue in the future.

I solved a part of my problem. Somebody had installed the e360 markup mod. As i deactivated the mod all thread creator names were shown.

e360 uses
to get the marked up name, but on a deleted user this of course returns empty, so there is no data for
So i modified it to use
in the threadbit_display.php hook to get the username from $thread and striking it through.

That solves the first part of my problem.

Now vbulletin just has to stop to link to non-existing profiles and everything is flowers. :)

Thanks for the help so far.