Apostrophes

Can anyone please help me with the following problem?

I have a user whose name ends with an apostrophe (i.e Bonet'). I want to make the name with an s like this (for ownership) Bonet's instead of Bonet''s with 2 apostrophes. I am using $userinfo[username] to get the name and if I use an 's for ownership on all other names it appears fine. I need to have it not add an apostrophe after the name if one is already there, just the s, but still keep the 's for all other names. I know it sounds confusing. I'm not sure how to pull the information out of the username variable to do this. Can anybody help?

[Boofo]

Is there a way to have this variable:

$a

check whether there is a

'
before it and if there is, just add an s and if there isn't, add an

's

That way, I can put it in any template where I need to and if the name (whether it be $bbuserinfo[username] or $post[username] or whatever else I use) ends in an apotrophe, it will only add an s and do the other if there is no apostrophe.

I'm hoping to be able to use this anywhere at any time.

[Scott MacVicar]

Would involve a good bit of modification, i'll try to find all the times that the username is loaded and add the code which adds a usernames key to the array so instead of using $userinfo['username']$a you can use $userinfo['usernames']

[Boofo]

I really appreciate this, Scott, thank you!

How would that affect the places I have $bbuserinfo[usernames]and $post[username]? Would I just need to change all o0f those instances everywhere to $userinfo['username']? I want to be able to do this in the templates instead of having to go through all of the php files to find where I have those different variables. Because I don't need the 's or s after every instance of the username on the board. Just select areas. I started to modify each place last night and I gave up after getting confused with all of the different ways I call the username and the different places. That is why I thought using the $a would be easier because then I could just add it as I need it in the template and not have to re-write all of the code for each variable in the php files.

Originally posted by PPN
Would involve a good bit of modification, i'll try to find all the times that the username is loaded and add the code which adds a usernames key to the array so instead of using $userinfo['username']$a you can use $userinfo['usernames']

[Scott MacVicar]

You will have two variables
$bbuserinfo['username'] and $bbuserinfo['usernames']

one without 's and one with so you just edit the template to use one or the other.

[Boofo]

Great! That's even better than the $a idea. Will I be able to use those globally? I won't need a separate post[username] and userinfo[username] anymore then? That would be fantastic. Looking forward to it, my friend.

Originally posted by PPN
You will have two variables
$bbuserinfo['username'] and $bbuserinfo['usernames']

one without 's and one with so you just edit the template to use one or the other.

[Scott MacVicar]

Yep just gotta modify a couple of functions where these arrays are derrived from

/admin/sessions.php for $bbuserinfo
verifyuser function for the other but someplaces might not get their array from any main functions, like getpostbit i believe.

[Boofo]

The private messages, and the usercp should work with that though, don't you think? Along with the postbit and memberlist? If the getinfo is the only place I have to use something else to get the same results, I can live with that.