$username in posts?

[Killeglass]

Hi folks

I am trying to personalize some stickied posts in our forum

I would like to add $username to bring up each members name

This way the post would be to their attention

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

[Mark.B]

Depends exactly what you're trying to do.

If you just want the name of the person who is viewing the page it's $bbuserinfo[username].

If you want it showing as part of a thread title you would probably have to use some sort of conditional to avoid things showing to guests:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">FAO $bbuserinfo[username]: </if>

would probably work, depending on where you use it.

[Killeglass]

I would just like to add it to the body of the post

In the subject title it's not needed

Thanks again!!

[JoeBOBBillyTed]

I am not sure how to do it, but what he is wanting is similar to a hack that phpbb has where if you put the following text in a thread.

/user

it would instead of displaying that, replace that with the persons username.

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by JoeBOBBillyTed

I am not sure how to do it, but what he is wanting is similar to a hack that phpbb has where if you put the following text in a thread.

/user

it would instead of displaying that, replace that with the persons username.

There is a hack that does that somewhere....I did have it running once, but I cannot remember what it is called.

--------------- Added [DATE]1234138325[/DATE] at [TIME]1234138325[/TIME] ---------------

Hmmm....this is how my site used to do it...

Create a plugin at global_complete with the following code:

$output = str_replace('[username]', $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], $output);

Now anywhere you type:

[username]

it will display the name of the person reading it.

[Killeglass]

I see there was mod called "/you"

that may have been it.

--------------- Added [DATE]1234139149[/DATE] at [TIME]1234139149[/TIME] ---------------

Originally Posted by Mark.B

There is a hack that does that somewhere....I did have it running once, but I cannot remember what it is called.

--------------- Added [DATE]1234138325[/DATE] at [TIME]1234138325[/TIME] ---------------

Hmmm....this is how my site used to do it...

Create a plugin at global_complete with the following code:

$output = str_replace('[username]', $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], $output);

Now anywhere you type:

[username]

it will display the name of the person reading it.

Thank you!!