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.

[Scott MacVicar]

FireFly its my "you have a full pm box please empty me" hack to pester people with full pm boxes to remove some. So the $fullpm is from that.

[danielillo]

Will it work on 2.0.3 forum?

Thanks,

Daniel.

[James Cridland]

One of our forum guides says... "I think you could have more fun if you had a random generator version!! That could really confuse people!!"

[Mark Hewitt]

bwhaha great! I've posted my joke thread .

But I do actually have a serious use for this. For putting the forum name inside a post. (As I use cobranding on my forums)

The info I need is contained within the $bbuserinfo array. How can I alter the code so that it supports two replacements?

[Rose]

I assume if you aren't using .php3 (and you are using the default .php ext.) then that is the right version?

I've looked around a bit and I still can't see why it's not coming up right. I don't have any errors, just no cool hack. *lol*

Counts steps - Make two changes to functions.php & Upload.

Is that it?

Unless it has something to do with the fullpm hack, which I don't have, so I removed that bit of text from the coding. Would that effect it?

[Rose]

Anyone have a suggestion? I've edited the two places in my functions.php, uploaded, and tried it out. I see the actual string { bbusername } (without spaces, of course). I logged in as a regular member to see if it was my status, but the same thing. :s

[SWFans.net]

Originally posted by Martin CX
You don't need the hack to do that, though. Just use $username in the templates.

Tried that and had it fail in 2.2.2. It displays other member's usernames for me when I go into the forum when just using that variable.

[Admin]

$bbuserinfo[username], SWFans.net.

[DWZ]

this could become a bit of fun

[Matt]

I installed the hack on the board but the problem is it seems to muckup the postbit template. The user title on any posts I use it in comes out as "-" and it goes to display the away image instead of my edited online/offline postbit templates. The rest looks the same.

Any idea what causes this?

[DarkReaper]

Um..I'm confused. What exactly does this do...?

[Zaphod]

I have found it does not work with the new security refinements in vb 2.2.x But was able to come up with a easy workaround.

Modify this :

PHP Code:

$findwords=array(0 => '{bbusername}'); 


to use :

PHP Code:

$findwords=array(0 => '=bbusername='); 


and use =bbusername= in your posts.

hope this helps :classic:

[Cloughie]

hey i did this..

the {bbusername} works in the thread title but not in the actual thread..

any ideas why?

[Admin]

Install the fix by smachol in the sticky thread in this forum.

[simon]

will this work with 2.2.4 ???