Miscellaneous Hacks - [you] Replacement Mod

Here it is! The [you] hack ported over to vB 3.7 beta 4.

I have ported this over to vBulletin 3.7 beta 4, but it should work on all 3.7 versions. It now works board-wide (posts and thread titles), in the archive, and also in the quick post in the profile. If there are any areas you find that this doesn't work in, let me know and I will add the code for that area.

Thanks goes out to KirbyDE for making the first version for 3.5 possible. Without him, I'd STILL be trying to figure out the best way to do this for vB 3.5. Thanks, buddy!

Description:

This will replace the [you] variable (board-wide) with the viewing user's username.

Installation:

1 product xml
(No file edits)

Upload the product xml and you're all set!

Enjoy!

[HBC]

can this be changed to show a userid#?

[fyjpm]

when you use [you] within a link or a selflink it escapes the brackets and breaks...can this behaviour be altered?

Thanks,

John

[fyjpm]

Originally Posted by fyjpm

when you use [you] within a link or a selflink it escapes the brackets and breaks...can this behaviour be altered?

Thanks,

John

I just changed the code to -you- for my purposes to avoid the escaping and it works now....not sure if you want to amend this or make a note somewhere....

[fyjpm]

I noticed when you edit it makes the changes for you in the edit box, and if you don't remember to put it back to [you] (or -you- in my case) it hard codes the editors username in the post...can you think of a way around this?

Thanks,

John

[Hellcat]

*lol*
Nice one! Installed and tried -> working fine.

I guess I can confuse my members a bit with this

[ChErAbOo]

Thanks for this I just converted from BB to VB and was missing this feature

*clicks Install

[innersanctum]

I was wondering if there is are any by-products to this code.

For example:

Code                       Result
[you]                      username
[insert code here]         ip address
[insert code here]         sex
[insert code here]         avatar
[insert code here]         title
[insert code here]         userid
[insert code here]         email address

[DannyMilner]

Nice work, shame you have to do a file edit but away.

*installed*

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by DannyMilner

Nice work, shame you have to do a file edit but away.

*installed*

I will upload the fix for that as soon as I can find it. No more file edits.

[Luggruff]

how would I change [you] to Luggruff, and $vbulletin->userinfo['username'] to <span style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bolder; color: #D10404;">Luggruff</span> ?

(just want the word Luggruff to turn up RED everywhere without any code showing, since if I would do this in the replacement variable thingie it would look like <span style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bolder; color: #D10404;">Luggruff</span> in every title and other places that don't suppport HTML or CSS)