Show a display name instead of username

Answers

• R_J Admin

  December 2017

  Forget everything else and add this two lines to your /conf/config.php:

  $Configuration['Garden']['User']['ValidationRegex'] = '\\d\\w-_ äöüß';
  $Configuration['Garden']['User']['ValidationLength'] = '{3,20}';
  

  That way your users are able to choose whatever user name they like.
  You only need the second line if you want to change the max. length of a name

  If you want to give your users the ability to "fix" their names, add the following line to the config: $Configuration['Garden']['Profile']['EditUsernames'] = true;
  I would announce that possibility of changing the name and make it available for a restricted time.

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• timme2707 New

  December 2017

  Thanks @R_J !

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• vintprox New

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/250726#Comment_250726

  YES! Thank you, goodness! I was finding such solution whole day. It makes a trick for me in theme hook. I slightly modified it to fallback to username if display name was not set:

  <?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit;
  
  
  class ForumThemeHooks implements Gdn_IPlugin {
      public function setup() {
          return true;
      }
  }
  
  
  if (!function_exists('userAnchor'))
  {
      function userAnchor($User, $CssClass = null, $Options = NULL)
      {
          static $NameUnique = null;
          if ($NameUnique === null) {
              $NameUnique = c('Garden.Registration.NameUnique');
          }
          if (is_array($CssClass)) {
              $Options = $CssClass;
              $CssClass = null;
          } elseif (is_string($Options)) {
              $Options = array('Px' => $Options);
          }
          $Px = val('Px', $Options, '');
          $DisplayName = GetUserDisplayName($User);
          $Text = val('Text', $Options, htmlspecialchars($DisplayName));
          $Attributes = array(
              'class' => $CssClass,
              'rel' => val('Rel', $Options)
          );
          if (isset($Options['title'])) {
              $Attributes['title'] = $Options['title'];
          }
          $UserUrl = userUrl($User, $Px);
          return '<a href="'.htmlspecialchars(url($UserUrl)).'"'.attribute($Attributes).'>'.$Text.'</a>';
      }
  
  
      function GetUserDisplayName($User)
      {
          $DisplayName = $User->Name;
          $SQL = Gdn::sql();
          $SQL
                  ->Select('u.Value')
                  ->From('UserMeta u')
                  ->Where('u.UserID', $User->UserID)
                  ->Where('u.Name', "Profile.Fullname");
          
          $UserMeta = $SQL->Get()->FirstRow();
          if (isset($UserMeta->Value) and !empty($UserMeta->Value)) {
              $DisplayName = $UserMeta->Value;
          }
          return $DisplayName;
      }
  }
  
  

  Well, yeah, activity titles are not affected by it as you noted. Seems like a problem with Vanilla+Smarty user modifier (applications/dashboard/views/activity/helper_functions.php, line 30, function Gdn_Format::to), but as expected behavior users mentioned in activity should convert to userAnchor result, but no luck today.

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