Miscellaneous Hacks - Preferred Name (Display Name)

This minor template edit will enable your users to have a "Preferred Name" instead of their username showing on their posts and navbar. Users would still log in using their username and password just that their preferred name would show up instead of their username.

This will not change the displayed name in the "Who's online" box.

This would be a good protection against cases where an admin from another site steals passwords. Meaning they try to log in with the password of a username they recognise. But in the end, it isn't really the right username. Regardless .. this is a feature that would be useful to some members.

Step 1.

Go into your Admin CP
User Profile Fields
Add New Profile Field
Single Line Text Box

Name: Preferred Name
Description: What would you like to be known as on the site? you will still use your username to log in.
Required: Yes, Always
Private Field: No
Field Searchable: No
Show On Member List: No

Leave everything else the same.

Make a note of the user field number that is assigned to this field (for this example, we will use Field5)

Step 2.

In Styles & Templates

Open Navbar (Under Navigation Templates)

Search For:

$bbuserinfo[username]

Replace With:

$bbuserinfo[fieldX]

Where X is the field number from step 1.

Save.

Open up Postbit / Postbit Legacy (Depending on which one you use.

Search For:

$post[musername]

Replace With:

$post[fieldX]

Where X is the field number from step 1.

Save.

Step 3.

Click Language & Phrases.
Search For Phrase.
"Thank you for logging "
Click Edit.

Replace with:

Thank you for logging in, $bbuserinfo[fieldX] .

Where X is the field number from step 1.

Done. No more template edits.


THANKS TO

• Kirk Y
• DJ RREBEL

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[shadowevil]

Nice mod .. But i want "display name" showing all is: register, login, who's online, profile ..v..v.. so, i want this mod show replace all username .... i waiting version 2.0

shadowevil install

[Kirk Y]

You might want to consider changing the replacements to:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['fieldX']">$bbuserinfo[fieldX]<else />$bbuserinfo[username]</if>

Otherwise people who haven't set a "Preferred Name" won't have a Username.

[Hornstar]

I wish vbulletin had the one implemented like on IPB boards default

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by Kirk Y

You might want to consider changing the replacements to:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['fieldX']">$bbuserinfo[fieldX]<else />$bbuserinfo[username]</if>

Otherwise people who haven't set a "Preferred Name" won't have a Username.

LMAO Good thinking

[PinkDaisy]

Okay.. I did this and then decided agaisnt it. Took all my templates back and now everyones posts is showing up in their username, even if its posted by someone else, it shows their username in the threads. Any help?

[PinkDaisy]

Okay.. now all my posts aren't showing up and it's just all messed up. Gosh.. what did I do?

[DJ RRebel]

Sorry Pink .. Can't really understand what your problem is ... everything should be fine if you reverted your templates back to their defaults.

[RDx321]

How can I add this to the main page for the Last Post By .

[Illustrious]

Yeah, I was just going to post that you may want to make it conditional:

<if condition="$post[field7]">$post[fieldX]<else />$post[musername]</if>

Also, by doing this, you're stripping the name of all of its markup. It may not be the best idea.

Edit: You can retain the usergroup's html markup if you edit it the functions.php file, but is there any other way to do it without file edits?

[landspeed]

Originally Posted by Illustrious

Yeah, I was just going to post that you may want to make it conditional:

<if condition="$post[field7]">$post[fieldX]<else />$post[musername]</if>

Also, by doing this, you're stripping the name of all of its markup. It may not be the best idea.

Edit: You can retain the usergroup's html markup if you edit it the functions.php file, but is there any other way to do it without file edits?

I don't see any way to do it without code modification. The board isn't developed to handle the thought of a user having a different editable bit that is displayed aside from login. It would be nice.

I'll look at hacking the function code.