Show $username in a post

[Dave Alcock]

Is there a way to pull the viewer's username and substitute it in a post.

I've tried use custom bbcodes - but it doesn't pull the username.

My attempt:

PHP Code:

<span>{param} $bbuserinfo[username]</span> 


which if I go [username]Dear[/username] I get:

Dear $bbuserinfo[username]

What am I doing wrong?

The idea would be to get a similar result in a post that you get when using $username in the email users feature from the admin panel.

So if $username="Dave"

Dear $username, the reader will see Dear Dave,