Reader's name inside post (+)

Note: This hack will only work on PHP 4.0.5 and higher. Sorry for all the others (anyone still using these old versions?!).

Anyhow, this is a great little hack, and most importantly very very fun for the masses.
It gives your users the ability to use {bbusername} in their post, and it will mysteriously be changed into the viewer's username when he reads the page.

Demo:
FireFly <!-- auto name hack -->

You can detect this hack is in action by viewing the HTML source of the page. You will see <!-- auto name hack --> next to the name in the source.

You can this hack used in action here as well:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35192

This hack also contains a small optimization to vBulletin, which removes a lot of calls to str_replace() and replaces that with only one (which is why this hack only works with PHP 4.0.5 and up).

Have fun, I know you will.

[-=dm=-]

cool thanx

[Twig Deez]

works like a charm, thanks!

[ptbyjason]

I am enjoying confusing my moderators right now, after I finally tell them what is going on, we are going to have some fun on the board. For now I am keeping this little secret all to myself.

[hondastyle]

Originally posted by FireFly
TWTCommish, you are using the wrong variable in the second lind.

hondastyle - hehe. Care to give us the link?

Doh! It was in my admin section.... but my regular users are the next victims... I'll be back with the link after I get it posted... muwahahahaaaa!

[Psychdrone]

Originally posted by Kumaro
^^^ lol...yeah same here. I have a question, Is it possible to put this in a template? So if I wanted to include the readers name in a template....is that possible?

yes me too?

And FF, pat yourself on the back, for another amusing hack

[hondastyle]

Okay, read it and weep:
http://www.hondastyle.com/forums/sho...?threadid=3068

Mind you, my moderators gave it away a bit (i got 'em good in the moderator's forum...) But I suspect I'll still catch enough off-guard to make it worth my while.. lol

Chris

[techno]

hmmm... I keep getting that really bright rainbow looking web page too...?? Whats the deal with that?

[zajako]

this hack is extremely useful for rping boards. You can set up actions like for ex. IRC chat rooms
(Typed) /me jumps
(displayed) *Zajako jumps
you get the picture.
I think its great FireFly

[Lucky]

You got a big 5 star rating.

Thanks for the laugh.

[SWFans.net]

Hehe, it even works in topic titles.

And I think I may actually have a practical use for it at our forums. A great deal of our members are role players with multiple names. I may add that into the templates for forumdisplay to let people know exactly what name they are logged in as.

Thanks for the nice hack Firefly.