Allow User Name Change by Member

[dcpaq2xx]

Group,

I think this feature would make an excellent addition to Vbulletin. Please let me explain.

This feature would allow registered members the ability to go into their user profile and change their user name on their own without an admin or moderator having to do it for them.

You could maybe even set a time waiting limit in the admin cp to limit how long they must wait between changes maybe in days or months?

I know PHPBB currently allows this feature, (could maybe get some ideas from them (phpbb)?)

Is it possible that someone here would be willing to code this feature into a plugin or plugin product?

Looking forward to seeing this become a reality for Vbulletin.

Thanks

Doug

[Andreas]

Changing the Username is simple ... init a UserDM, set existing data to $vbulletin->userinfo, set username to the new username, check for errors and if there are none: save it.
Done.

Changing the userid is a nightmare and I wouldn't do that voluntarily until hell freezes over.

[dcpaq2xx]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Changing the Username is simple ... init a UserDM, set existing data to $vbulletin->userinfo, set username to the new username, check for errors and if there are none: save it.
Done.

Changing the userid is a nightmare and I wouldn't do that voluntarily until hell freezes over.

I dont understand what the abbreviations are. "UserDM" ?

I am not wanting something that I have to do myself, I want to allow the user to do this theirselves, not me.

I have allowed users to change their user name for quite sometime using PHPBB, Im having trouble understanding why your so against letting them change their user names. Why is it a nightmare?

Doug

[Andreas]

UserDM = User Datamanager

What I posted above was a short summary of the code you would have to implement, it's only a few lines.

As said, changing the username is simple, but changing the userid is way too complicated

[dcpaq2xx]

Originally Posted by Andreas

UserDM = User Datamanager

What I posted above was a short summary of the code you would have to implement, it's only a few lines.

As said, changing the username is simple, but changing the userid is way too complicated

Andreas,

I am so sorry about that. I did not realize that there was actually a differnce between a User ID and a User Name. I was thinking they were the same.

I edited the title of the post to reflect the proper purpose of this post/request.

Is there anyway to get this modification done as a plugin? I like the plugin's because they don't modify the code and for other reasons. Especially when it comes to doing VB upgrades.

Doug

[Andreas]

User ID and a User Name.

There is
Your username for example is dcpaq2, your userid is 68937.

Doing such a Plugin is easy, even with history.

I'll have to do that for my board anyway (as we currently got it as a 3.0 feature), so i'll consider to design it in a "releaseable" way.

[dcpaq2xx]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Doing such a Plugin is easy, even with history.

I'll have to do that for my board anyway (as we currently got it as a 3.0 feature), so i'll consider to design it in a "releaseable" way.

Cool ! I'll be eagerly awaiting it's release, looking forward to it.

Andreas thank you for considering taking on the project.

Doug

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just released: Username Management - Control who can change Usernames plus history