Display custom titles AND standard titles in posts

This is a small hack that I wrote several months ago. Originally it was only a template mod, then turned into a hack but remained in the template mods forum at vbulletin.com, so it never made it over here.

Basically, all it does is show both a custom title, selected by the user, and the user's standard title (Junior Member, Member, Moderator, etc.) in posts. It uses a custom profile field that you create through the admin cp to store the custom title.

As I said, it's an older hack by me, and was originally tested on 2.0.3. It still works for me on 2.2.2, though.

[Freddie Bingham]

Give me the text you would input to do that.

[KuraFire]

<table style="filter:glow(color=white)"><font color=red>&nbsp;She Devil&nbsp;</font></table>

[KuraFire]

oh, btw, it's the same if you _do_ add the TR and TD tags.

[Jakeman]

Originally posted by freddie
Jakeman : it has nothing to do with the fields, as we said before it is much more powerful than that.

more powerful than fields... POWER FIELDS!

sigh... *me dies*

[Freddie Bingham]

Originally posted by KuraFire

<table style="filter:glow(color=white)"><font color=red>&nbsp;She Devil&nbsp;</font></table>

I still fail to see the problem as when that is saved it is sent through htmlspecialchars(), which btw makes it useless for you as it will not display as HTML when it is called in the postbit template. When edited, the underlying html appears as:

<input type="text" class="bginput" name="field1" value="&lt;table style=&quot;filter:glow(color=white)&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=red&gt; She Devil &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/table&gt;" size="25" maxlength="250">

[KuraFire]

Originally posted by freddie
I still fail to see the problem as when that is saved it is sent through htmlspecialchars(), which btw makes it useless for you as it will not display as HTML when it is called in the postbit template. When edited, the underlying html appears as:

<input type="text" class="bginput" name="field1" value="&lt;table style=&quot;filter:glow(color=white)&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=red&gt; She Devil &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/table&gt;" size="25" maxlength="250">

Exactly: we can't save it through htmlspecialchars() because it won't appear as HTML on threadpages, but an Administrator can enter that in their field and then it will work! But when you then try to look at the Edit Profile page, it gets messed up (due to the " in there).

I'll try and make a screenshot of it today, when I have the chance.

[Tech_Koss]

i set custom title to "no" but now my members custom title are still there ...im using 2.2.2 if that help
can anyone help?

[KuraFire]

If you've set the option "Use custom titles?" to NO after a few of them have given themselves a custom title, you'll have to reset those manually. I haven't seen any way to do this automatically...

[JJR512]

In the admin cp, in the section on the left called "Import and Maintenance", there is a link to "Update Counters". Go there, and the very first thing you'll see you can do is "Update User's Titles". Try that.

[Scrooge]

This is very close to what I am looking for on my board. In my case, I am trying to give contributors this option but not other users. Is there any way to make this available only to certain groups?