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.

[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 ???

[Admin]

Yes.

[Steve Machol]

Just as note to let everyone know I used this hack with predictably funny results as a April Fool's Day joke on my board. I combined it with Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator and the resulting thread set a one day record for responses and views on my forums.

You can see the results here:

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&threadid=4330

[Admin]

LOL I created a monster. Nice going Steve.

[CeleronXL]

Sorry to bring this back up again, but are there only two steps to this? All I see is two changes two changes to functions.php and it ends there.... It doesn't say save and reupload, so I'm not sure if it ends there....

[CeleronXL]

Well? I'd really like to install it, but it seems like there has to be more than what I just said above....