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.

[Steve Machol]

Yes, you just make the two changes to functions.php. Although it doesn't specifically say to 'save' and 'reupload', I thought those steps were pretty obvious. Hence, that's what I did.

[Fallout2man]

Would there possibly be a way of doing this, but instead of having to quote the person it actually replaced the variable in the user's post to whomever was viewing the thread?

[Editor]

Nope...we've followed the steps (and tried the ==bbusername== opion) on vB 2.2.5, and no luck. Nothing comes up where the username is meant to.

[-=dm=-]

Im using v2.2.4 now its not working anymore
I have also used the fix from smachol...

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by Editor
Nope...we've followed the steps (and tried the ==bbusername== opion) on vB 2.2.5, and no luck. Nothing comes up where the username is meant to.

It works on my 2.2.5 forum. All I did was follow FireFly's instructions exactly. You can check it out for yourself:

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

[Fallout2man]

But is there any way to integrate it with the sessionhash cookies so that it displays the username in the post according to the cookie on your computer? This hack could really be much more fun if it actually didn't require quoting to use.

[Steve Machol]

What do you mean? This hack doesn't require any quoting.

[Steve Machol]

All you need to do is make the two changes in functions.php that FireFly posted in the first message in this thread. Then to use the hack, just use {bbusername} in a post.

If that doesn't work for you then I have no idea what to tell you. This ain't that complicated.

[CeleronXL]

Do you need to set replacements or something? It's not working for me.....

[CeleronXL]

Hmm.... I installed it and it disabled the vBMicrostats.... It also still didn't work though and I uninstalled. Are you sure there's no more than those two steps...? No replacements or anything?