Display name vs Login name

[jluerken]

Sry Mod, I posted this question already in a thread but in the vb2 forum which was wrong.

I give it a try here

I am importing my UBBT to vb3 and have one problem.

UBBT decides between a users Display Name which is the name shown all over the page (beside a post for example) and the Login Name simply used for the login.
This is fine with me cause the users have the change in changing their name this way.

Now I want to implement a Display Name also in vb3.

Therefore I created a custom field with the id5 (profilefieldid5)

I went into my postbit_legacy Template and changed:

$post[username]

to

$post[field5]. I also tried $post[profilefieldid5]

but nothing worked.

I want on ALL my pages the displayname to be shown.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Please help me cause I need to implement this urgently.

Many thanks in advance...

[EricR]

Perhaps an obvious question but... since you modified the legacy template are you sure you configured vB to use the legacy template?

A similar request was posted here, sounds like you were right the first time (field5) :
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96719

I'm looking for the same thing, only I want to know how to use conditionals so that if the user leaves the custom name blank it'll default to the registered name. I haven't found any answers on that part yet

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by EricR

Perhaps an obvious question but... since you modified the legacy template are you sure you configured vB to use the legacy template?

A similar request was posted here, sounds like you were right the first time (field5) :
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96719

I'm looking for the same thing, only I want to know how to use conditionals so that if the user leaves the custom name blank it'll default to the registered name. I haven't found any answers on that part yet

Add a new userprofile field

Call it Display Name make it a signle line text box
make sure to note the field id

now,

find in your postbit template $post[musername] and replace it with this

<if condition="$post[fieldX]">$post[fieldx]<else />$post[musername]</if>
replace X with the filed id
That SHOULD do it, altho i dont have the time to look directly at the templates let me know if it works or not

[lasto]

ok i aint no hacker or anything so i may be on wrong track but why not get the display name to be a profile field and then call it in using the follwoing in postbit

<div class="smallfont">
<if condition="$post['field5']">
$post[field5]
</if>
</div>


obviously change the postfield bit to match your number


also aint my code - thanks to Arkham (vb.nl)for help on solving my problem he gave me the conditionals.

Edit

soz Zachery we posted at same time

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Zachery

<if condition="$post[fieldX]">$post[fieldx]<else />$post[musername]</if>
replace X with the filed id
That SHOULD do it, altho i dont have the time to look directly at the templates let me know if it works or not

Thanks Zachery, this sounds helpful to me but its not working.
I change this line in postbit and postbit_legacy but still the loginname is shown. I don't know if there is any caching system behind which results to this cause your code snippet looks logic to me.

What about the replacement variables in vb3. Can't I use them to replace $post[username] with $post[field5] in a whole style?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by jluerken

Thanks Zachery, this sounds helpful to me but its not working.
I change this line in postbit and postbit_legacy but still the loginname is shown. I don't know if there is any caching system behind which results to this cause your code snippet looks logic to me.

What about the replacement variables in vb3. Can't I use them to replace $post[username] with $post[field5] in a whole style?

Lol, they dont work so much like that.

Now unless someone goes in and changes their field 5 it wouldnt showup.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Lol, they dont work so much like that.

Now unless someone goes in and changes their field 5 it wouldnt showup.

You can define a default variable during the creation of custom fields.
I think this should be shown or?

I gave your hint a try and entered something in the field but still this is not shown.