Username Alias Hack

VERSION 2 IS OUT

http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index...ack&hackid=993

ONLY use this thread to get the instructions to revert them if you had installed this version.





Does your forum have a number of admins? Ever look at your forum and see a member with 200+ posts and be like "who is this person? i've seen him/her before, but I don't remember this username" cos they had a name change, and changed their avatar and signature as well? I had this problem a few times. Another administrator changed the member's username and I was stumped. So I had this idea for a hack!

Anyways, here's what it does:

In the User Profile, it will display right beside "Search for user's posts." a list of "Aliases" which is what their previous usernames were, if they were changed at all.

Go here for an example of that (this is my profile at my forum): http://forums.crystaldimensions.com/...tinfo&userid=2

-also-

In the Admin CP, there will be an extra field for updating a User Profile, called "Aliases." You can change the Aliases field, but you don't have to, cos the script I wrote automatically appends the old username to that list of aliases. Also, it detects and deletes duplicate entries. Such as if your username is being changed back to "Person" and it was that before, and is now in the Aliases field, it will automatically be taken out of the aliases list. It does one other thing, it only allows a character limit of 70 characters in the list of aliases, but does not end the list with a chopped up username or a comma, instead it cuts off the end of the list to the last comma. If you update the aliases field manually, and the username at the same time, it will override the auto-update and it will update the aliases field to what you entered yourself.

Attached is a text file of the installation instructions! Hope you like it!

[Brianna]

I'm sorry, for some reason it hasn't sent me emails on updates to this thread o_O x.x Well, if you installed it properly, could it be a cache problem with your browser? Or did you try it a separate day or browser session? Did you check your database to see what is in the alias field? I tested to make sure that worked when I debugged it, and it did work fine..

[ZiRu$]

Nope.....i've done 2 formats since then....it's not that!

and i dont have access to phpmyadmin

[Brianna]

Can you get access? Or communicate with someone with the access?

[Opie]

would be nice if this worked with the store

[gameplanetz]

can this intregrated with PPN's change username via UCP?

[NuclioN]

A member changed her name and named herself 'nick name' ... it was not noticed. I changed it to 'name' and her alias went to 'nick'

(???)

The changed nick shoots into Coppa registrations awaiting moderation...... and if i manualy put it in registered it STAYS in the coppa..
As a matter of fact, all changed users are turning into Coppa users and render them static. You can't change their usergroup after that. Uninstall untill solved.

[Brianna]

I do not understand how it would affect usergroup at all.. What version of vB are you using? That was developed for 2.2.6 and I am now on 2.2.8 and have not installed it yet, but I can to see if their is a newer version conflict if that is the case.. I'll recheck my code again as well, I've learnt much more PHP since then Sorry it gave you problems like that

[NuclioN]

Running 2.2.6 this moment. It maybe isn't your hack Brianna, i've got wierd problems with the poll to lately.

[Boofo]

Running on 2.2.9 and working as advertised. Nice hack. Thank you.

The only change I can recommend is maybe setting this up only for Admins (and maybe Mods or Supermods) to view. Sometimes a user might change their username because of being harassed or something like that. Just a thought.

[Brianna]

NuclioN, before I developed my hack on my 2.2.6, I had problems with the poll as well; mainly it seemed that AOL users were not able to vote properly. I would suggest upgrading to 2.2.8, I've been using it for a while now and have had no problems, though that could be a problem for you if you have a ton of hacks installed :/

Boofo, I thought about that as well, but other users may be interested to know who a person is that changed their name as well. However, if a user is changing their name due to harassment, you can just clear out the alias field, that's why I put an option to clear/alter the field it in the Admin CP.

I'm going to download and review my code and perhaps improve it today if I get the chance... Perhaps more options for it..