User Display Name Hack

User Display Name Hack v0.2
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User Display Name Hack v0.1
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Hello this is my first hack so don't really have much to say but here it goes:

This hack will allow for a user to enter their display name to use in the forum instead of the default username. It requires a display name profile field to be created, if there is not a display name field then nothing will be displayed. This hack fixes it so that the normal Username display is replaced withthe new userdisplay field name all over the forum. This has been tested and it works. I will only offer support in the vbulletin.org hacking forum for this hack. Teh amount for support I can provide is limited as I have a very busy schedule right now and just put this hack together.

If you see another place that the userdisplayname should be used just post it here and I will see if I can add it in sometime.

I think that is basically it.

If you could all test it out for me and tell me if it works for you then that would be a great help

Screenshots

My username for my board is Foxtroter but with the display name hack it shows ->SOF<-Foxtroter-|CSN|- as shown below

Welcome panel on forumhome


Whos Online


Last Post


Thread Starter


Currently Active Users:

Thanks,
Foxtroter

[Foxtroter]

could u tell me how ya fixed, and also could ya give me a list of everywhere you want it to be displayed in a PM to me? Ill see what i can do

[BigJohnson]

Well I mean everywhere. AS IN EVERYWHERE. I just want the display name to be displayed and the login name to be the login. I dont want the login showing up anywhere on the forums at all for other members to see.

[Chris M]

Just saying everywhere wont help him...

He needs a list of the places that he hasnt covered yet...

Satan

[Foxtroter]

Yeh exactly, thanks satan

[BigJohnson]

Like the showthread. even in the Last Post column on the forum home. Everywhere you see the persons name show up can it be changed.

I was thinking wouldnt it be easier if the names on all part of the board were the display name? And you just change the login name to make it a log in name. I think that would be easier. What do you think.

[Chris M]

Sounds like a great idea

Satan

[chad777]

I add it i get this error:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT userfield.userid,userfield.field7,moderator.forumi d
FROM moderator
LEFT JOIN userfield
ON (moderator.userid=userfield.userid)
ORDER BY user.field7
mysql error: Unknown table 'user' in order clause

mysql error number: 1109

When I try to add:

$mod = array();
$forummoderators=$DB_site->query('SELECT userfield.userid,userfield.fieldX,moderator.forumi d
FROM moderator
LEFT JOIN userfield
ON (moderator.userid=userfield.userid)
ORDER BY user.fieldX');
while ($moderator=$DB_site->fetch_array($forummoderators)) {
$imodcache["$moderator[forumid]"][] = $moderator;
$mod["$moderator[userid]"] = 1;
}

and on the forum home where it says posted by: username
It now only says "by"

and in the whos online box it has 2 of me
one with no name and one with display name



I hope I added this right i know I followed th direction good except what I posted above

Also is there a way to make the display name show up for the following?

1. in profile
2. private messages (regular private message and the private message box at the buttom of forum home)
3. in number of active users today
4. for thread starter
5. in messages posted

That is all i can see as of now, but i would like the display name to be everywhere the login name usally is on the forum.

This way on the user knows there login and everyone else thinks the display name is the login ?

Thanks and btw nice hack

[Foxtroter]

$forummoderators=$DB_site->query('SELECT userfield.userid,userfield.fieldX,moderator.forumi d

change fieldX to your username display field

[DraX]

These is a pretty good idea... one I already had and started working on... LOL.

I've already ensured that in mine, the DisplayedName is not required.... working just like the Displayed Name in UBB.

When I put out the hack, feel free to take a look at the code and see how I did it.

My Hack actually makes a new field in the USER table of the database... allowing me to, with some template modification, put the Displayed Name field EXACTLY where it is in UBB on the Profile/Options pages. You might want to try that.

[blackice912]

Seems like a neat script...

For the problem about nothing displaying if the field is empty....

Couldn't you just do something like if $fieldID = NULL then display the username?

Also:

What about the problem of two people choosing the same display name? I'm guessing right now two people can choose the same display name...