Automatically bold mentions of regular user's names...
 

When you're talking about other posters, it's common to refer to them as PersonX rather than an unbolded version, so as to avoid confusion over who and what is being talked to.

Might it be possible for a list of users (in my case, a list of regular users, based from the regular users usegroup I created) to have their names automatically bolded when mentioned in posts?

(possible even a link to their member profile, but that's optional)

So if someone were to submit:

it'd come out as:

I tried the automatic censorship options, thinking I could basically find and replace a manually entered list of user names with surrounding bold tags, but that's no use.

Anyhow, I'm no coder, but the simpler elements of this potential hack don't seem too tricky, what do people thing? :)

Thats a good idea for a hack. I wish I could do it :(

This would either require a ton of sql queries or a long loop.

You might be able to use vb3's replacement features. I havent really used it myself but it might do what your looking for

I can imagine...

It would require an array of valid names to search in though, it wouldn't require looking any deeper...

< my database knowledge is running out! >

You mean replacement variables?

Any more thoughts?

i thought a hack like this exsits already but the other way around.

if someone posts a certain word a link is shown instead, i think that was vb2 i was looking at but if it is that would be a good mod to release for vb3

anyone got a link to the link hack? :D

I use to do something similar with vBcode. I created a new code called user and whenever someone wanted to post a username they could do as so if they pleased:

[user]Brad.loo[/user]

That tag would basicly hyperlink the name back to the profile, if you are intrested in that I could throw togther some instructions if you don't know how to do it yourself.