Checking Hack Interest

Anyone interested in me creating a hack that will allow your users to enter a Custom Title for themselves? I will make it so that you can set a # of posts a user must have before being able to use it. I will also make an option for you to limit the length of the title. The title will then appear on their posts below their username, or below their avatar (or wherever you want in postbit). This would be in addition to the title that they are given automatically through the control panel based on their post count.

I have this list of 100 little hacks I want to make but I can never get around to doing it.

Originally posted by Me2Be

And we still like ya anyway

good thing too, cause if you didn't I'd REALLY be annoying
Anyway, i think that there doess need to be some kind of title censor or something. For ex., if this was implemented here, i could make my title "Your Friendly Administrator", which is James' title, and that could be problem.

I'll make a field like the censor text field, ok? I won't use it but I'll put it in as mine looks like this and I think it is obvious.

I think a censor text type thing should be fine.

okay, I'm not trying to complain here, but doesn't having 2 titles seem a little reduntant?

I was doing my thinking along the lines of a hack that would make the text field and radio buttons that exit in the CP viewable for those with over a predetemined number of posts.
That would let people set their custom title.

The only thing I would add to that is a CP per user permission so you can turn off abusive users while letting the good ones have one.

Just my thoughts...

Well I can make an Admin switch so you can have it change the usertitle or the new custom title. I really love how simple hacks just seem to keep growing and growing.

Make it change the user title

or

Make it add a new title also?

Anyone else in agreement with Martin?

I'm for just one title - either they get the standard title, or they can change it to a custom one. (I guess I'm with Martin )

I wasn't complaining, honest!!

I was just thinking this past week how to do this myself.

I was pondering the idea of an if() statement in the profile.php to handle it, but I'm not that confident in my PHP coding abilities yet.

Now I understand why you would be afraid of users entering words that might trick people into thinking they were more important than they really are. It was more along the lines of a "motto" hack.

I will change it to a hack that allows someone to change their user title based on a Post count option and a time registered option. It also has an option to allow mods to change it at will. Anything else??

Next someone will say "can you let it have HTML" and that will be followed up with "since it has html can you make sure it checks images for size".

HTML wouldn't be hard to do, just don't put in the strippers.

for my part, I plan on making the textbox a 31 character limit and the same for the table column. That should end any attempts at getting carried away

No HTML - I can just imagine the pretty colors and sizes they'll come up with - text only is fine by me.