Please help me with this forumdisplaybit hack!

[newvbuser]

Hi in the template "forumdisplaybit"

there is a variable for the Thread Starter and is displayed as follows:

<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" width="30%" nowrap><normalfont>$thread[postedby]</normalfont></td>

However this $thread[postedby] shows up in the forumdisplay page as a URL (ahref tag) that if clicked shows the profile of the member.

I would like to take out the ahref tag completely, and just display the name of the topic starter. Could anyone please tell me how to do just this? Thanks!!

[Lesane]

Open root/forumdisplay.php

Find (around line 613 in 2.2.2):

PHP Code:

if ($thread['postuserid']) {
      $thread['postedby'] = "<a href=\"member.php?action=getinfo&userid=$thread[postuserid]\">$thread[postusername]</a>";
    } else {
      $thread['postedby'] = $thread[postusername];
    } 


and change it to:

PHP Code:

if ($thread['postuserid']) {
      $thread['postedby'] = $thread[postusername];
    } else {
      $thread['postedby'] = $thread[postusername];
    } 


That should work :up:

[newvbuser]

I guess there is no variable that will not have this tag removed. So it has to be a hack then. thanks a lot!

[Admin]

No need to hack, at all, just use $thread[postusername] instead of $thread[postedby].