Changing Username URL in threads

w1ckedsick · June 2015

My forum is highly integrated into my website and I want the Username links to go to their website profile independant of Vanilla.

I've managed to do this for people replying to a thread but not for the thread starter. Can anyone help?

For the username of those replying, this worked successfully in forum/applications/vanilla/views/discussion/helper_functions.php:

Replaced:

echo UserPhoto($Author);
echo UserAnchor($Author);

With

echo UserPhoto($Author);
$AName =$Sender->EventArguments['Author']->Name;
echo '<a href="http://www.website.com/'. $AName .'">'. $AName .'</a>';

However, I tried doing the exact same change for the thread starter (located in discussion.php of same directory) but it just made the username not show.

Replaced:

if ($UserPhoto) {
echo UserPhoto($Author);
echo UserAnchor($Author, 'Username');
} else {
echo UserAnchor($Author, 'Username');
echo UserPhoto($Author);

echo FormatMeAction($Discussion);

With:

echo UserPhoto($Author);
$AName =$Sender->EventArguments['Author']->Name;
echo '<a href="http://www.website.com/'. $AName .'">'. $AName .'</a>';

I'm no coder... please can someone help?

hgtonight · June 2015

I am a little confused as to what you are trying to achieve. I can tell you that you shouldn't be editing core files.

Assuming you want every profile link to go somewhere else, define a function in your favorite bootstrap file (e.g. /conf/bootstrap.before.php) that is called UserUrl. Here is the default definition:

   /**
    * Return the url for a user.
    * @param array|object $User The user to get the url for.
    * @param string $Px The prefix to apply before fieldnames. @since 2.1
    * @param string $Method Optional. ProfileController method to target.
    * @return string The url suitable to be passed into the Url() function.
    */
   function UserUrl($User, $Px = '', $Method = '', $Get = FALSE) {
      static $NameUnique = NULL;
      if ($NameUnique === NULL)
         $NameUnique = C('Garden.Registration.NameUnique');

      $UserName = GetValue($Px.'Name', $User);
      $UserName = preg_replace('/([\?&]+)/', '', $UserName);

      $Result = '/profile/'.
         ($Method ? trim($Method, '/').'/' : '').
         ($NameUnique ? '' : GetValue($Px.'UserID', $User, 0).'/').
         rawurlencode($UserName);

      if ($Get)
         $Result .= '?'.http_build_query($Get);

      return $Result;
   }

Modify that to return whatever URL you want and this will automatically be used everywhere.

w1ckedsick · June 2015

Thanks I've just created a new file /conf/bootstrap.before.php and inside put your code with some dummy url to test:

<?
     function UserUrl($User, $Px = '', $Method = '', $Get = FALSE) {
          static $NameUnique = NULL;
          if ($NameUnique === NULL)
             $NameUnique = C('Garden.Registration.NameUnique');
          $UserName = GetValue($Px.'Name', $User);
          $UserName = preg_replace('/([\?&]+)/', '', $UserName);
          $Result = '/asdsadsa/'.
             ($Method ? trim($Method, '/').'/' : '').
             ($NameUnique ? '' : GetValue($Px.'UserID', $User, 0).'/').
             rawurlencode($UserName);
          if ($Get)
             $Result .= '?'.http_build_query($Get);
          return $Result;
       }
?>

But the url didn't change

w1ckedsick · June 2015

Ok got it sorted. Using what you said, I found someone else mention something similar and this works for me:

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
function UserUrl($User, $Px = '', $Method = '', $Get = FALSE){
    $UserName = GetValue('Name', $User);
    $Result = 'http://yoursite.com/profile/'.$UserName;
    if ($Get)
        $Result .= '?'.http_build_query($Get);
    return $Result;
}

Thank you!

w1ckedsick · June 2015

That function doesn't appear to replace the URL when someone quotes a username like so @Mark

Can anyone help there?

hgtonight · June 2015

You would have to install a mentions formatter that would handle the mentions formatting.

This is because the mentions formatting doesn't have access to the user object, just the user reference. This is for scalability reasons, I assume.

Add the following to your /conf/bootstrap.early.php file:

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
Gdn::FactoryInstall('MentionsFormatter', 'CustomMentions', PATH_CONF . '/custommentions.php');

Then you need to create a class called CustomMentions in the /conf/custommentions.php file. The class must define a FormatMentions method that accepts a single mixed type argument. E.g.:

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
class CustomMentions {

    public function FormatMentions($Body) {
        return preg_replace(
               '/(^|[\s,\.>])@(\w{1,50})\b/i', //{3,20}
               '\1'.Anchor('@\2', 'http://example.com/customprofile/\\2'),
               $Body
            );
    }
}

w1ckedsick · June 2015

Thank you - that worked

w1ckedsick · June 2015

The custommentions code is causing an issue where upon creating a new dicussion, it doesn't redirect the user back to the forum but instead just hangs on the same page with following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method CustomMentions::GetMentions() in /home/mysite/site/public_html/forum/library/core/functions.general.php on line 1405

w1ckedsick · June 2015

Anyone?

Bleistivt · June 2015

Do you still have the /conf/bootstrap.early.php file?

w1ckedsick · June 2015

Yes, currently has:

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
Gdn::FactoryInstall('MentionsFormatter', 'CustomMentions', PATH_CONF . '/custommentions.php');

Bleistivt · June 2015

Are you using 2.2a? Looks like you need to implement getMentions.

Copy over this:
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/library/core/class.format.php#L1472-L1503

to a new function called getMentions($Mixed) in the custommentions.php

w1ckedsick · June 2015

I'm using 2.1.9

w1ckedsick · June 2015

I tried doing the following in custommentions.php anyway but no luck:

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
class CustomMentions {
    public function FormatMentions($Body) {
        return preg_replace(
               '/(^|[\s,\.>])@(\w{1,50})\b/i', //{3,20}
               '\1'.Anchor('@\2', 'http://www.cuddlecomfort.com/\\2'),
               $Body
            );
    }


public function getMentions($Mixed) {

  // Handle @mentions.
            if (C('Garden.Format.Mentions')) {
                $urlFormat = str_replace('{name}', '$2', self::$MentionsUrlFormat);
                // Unicode includes Numbers, Letters, Marks, & Connector punctuation.
                $Pattern = (unicodeRegexSupport()) ? '[\pN\pL\pM\pPc]' : '\w';
                $Mixed = Gdn_Format::replaceButProtectCodeBlocks(
                    '/(^|[\s,\.>\(])@('.$Pattern.'{1,64})\b/i', //{3,20}
                    '\1'.anchor('@$2', $urlFormat),
                    $Mixed
                );
            }
            // Handle #hashtag searches
            if (C('Garden.Format.Hashtags')) {
                $Mixed = Gdn_Format::replaceButProtectCodeBlocks(
                    '/(^|[\s,\.>])\#([\w\-]+)(?=[\s,\.!?<]|$)/i',
                    '\1'.anchor('#\2', '/search?Search=%23\2&Mode=like').'\3',
                    $Mixed
                );
            }
            // Handle "/me does x" action statements
            if (C('Garden.Format.MeActions')) {
                $Mixed = Gdn_Format::replaceButProtectCodeBlocks(
                    '/(^|[\n])(\/me)(\s[^(\n)]+)/i',
                    '\1'.wrap(wrap('\2', 'span', array('class' => 'MeActionName')).'\3', 'span', array('class' => 'AuthorAction')),
                    $Mixed
                );
            }
            return $Mixed;

    }

}

Bleistivt · June 2015

If you are on 2.1 you need to use this part from the 2.1 source

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/release/2.1/library/core/class.format.php#L1167-L1199

w1ckedsick · June 2015

Yep that code worked... thank you @Bleistivt

byakko · January 2016

This worked wonders on 2.1 but I don't think I can get it to work on 2.2. Are there any updates? Thanks

leqthanh · January 2016

thanks all. Here's what I was looking for

Changing Username URL in threads

Comments