Professional Names

Professional Names

About this hack:
If your forum is aimed to look stylish or professional yet your staff or users insit to use their nicknames instead of their proper names then this hack is for you.

This is a simple hack which shows a users real name under their title in a professional style.

Features:
Show users/staff real names under posts.

Installation information on hack:
Files edited: 0
Templates edited: 2 (both postbit)
Files to upload: 0
Cronjobs to add: 0
Time to install: 2 minutes max

Instructions:
1) In admincp Add a New User Profile field
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Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Real Name
Description: Please enter your real name to be displayed on the forum or leave blank.
Max length: 30
Field Required: No
Field Editable by user: Yes
*If you want it staff only set Editable by user no so it can only be changed in AdminCP*
Private Field: No
Display Page: Edit Profile
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Now the Profile Field is made you need to remeber the field number, (i.e field5 = 5)

2) In template named: postbit
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Find:
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<if condition="$post['rank']"><div class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>

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Below Add:
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<if condition="$post[fieldX] != ''"><div class="smallfont"><i>$post[fieldX]</i></div></if>

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Be sure to change the two X to your field number!

Click Save

3) In template named: postbit_legacy
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Find:
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<if condition="$post['rank']"><div class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>

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Below Add:
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<if condition="$post[fieldX] != ''"><div class="smallfont"><i>$post[fieldX]</i></div></if>

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Be sure to change the two X to your field number!

Click Save

4) Press Install on vBulletin.org

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!

[dcarr]

Why, on every page of this thread, do I receive a password popup box asking me to connect to www.truedeath.co.uk? It's a regular user/pass box...and its only on the pages of this thread.

[CAMS]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Why, on every page of this thread, do I receive a password popup box asking me to connect to www.truedeath.co.uk? It's a regular user/pass box...and its only on the pages of this thread.

you mean this... yep its a weird one lol

[Princeton]

it appears that TrueDeath has "disabled" access to an image on his sig -- his sig needs to be edited

[TrueDeath]

Sorry guys sorted it lol (forgot about my site restriction i had temp placed)

[Cagonni]

installed.

[Mobo]

Does this work on vB 3.5.4? I've done the hacks and see no changes on my forums. I'd love to have this work.

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by Mobo

Does this work on vB 3.5.4? I've done the hacks and see no changes on my forums. I'd love to have this work.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. All it is is a couple of basic template conditionals

[Mobo]

That's what I thought too, but it's not working on my site

[HMBeaty]

Works perfectly fine on mine. Make sure you are using the correct postbit, style, and profile field

[Mobo]

Yep, it was only working in one style... the one I was not using. Thanks!!