• Registered: 2005-08-23
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Topic: Real Name

Good Morning,

New user of PubBB and I must say it is 'da bomb' (is that still the in thing to say?!). I do have one question (at this time). We would like to require people to register, include their real name and finally make that real name available to any user. This is a small forum for members of our deparment and do not want any 'anonymous' posts.

Help?!

Cheers!

duck

  • Registered: 2005-09-15
  • Posts: 1

Re: Real Name

Hi,

I also need real names to show instead of user names. Is this possible with punBB?

thanks!

3 Reply by Tobi

  • Tobi
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  • From: Samos, Greece
  • Registered: 2005-06-27
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Re: Real Name

Needs some tweaking but why not?

If you want to show the user's real name you open viewtopic.php, go for line 186 (or around there) and change this:

$result = $db->query('SELECT u.email, u.title, u.url, u.location, u.use_avatar, u.signature, u.email_setting, u.num_posts, u.registered, u.admin_note, p.id, p.poster AS username, p.poster_id, p.poster_ip, p.poster_email, p.message, p.hide_smilies, p.posted, p.edited, p.edited_by, g.g_id, g.g_user_title, o.user_id AS is_online FROM '.$db->prefix.'posts AS p INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'users AS u ON u.id=p.poster_id INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'groups AS g ON g.g_id=u.group_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'online AS o ON (o.user_id=u.id AND o.user_id!=1 AND o.idle=0) WHERE p.topic_id='.$id.' ORDER BY p.id LIMIT '.$start_from.','.$pun_user['disp_posts'], true) or error('Unable to fetch post info', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

To this

$result = $db->query('SELECT u.email, u.title, u.realname, u.url, u.location, u.use_avatar, u.signature, u.email_setting, u.num_posts, u.registered, u.admin_note, p.id, p.poster AS username, p.poster_id, p.poster_ip, p.poster_email, p.message, p.hide_smilies, p.posted, p.edited, p.edited_by, g.g_id, g.g_user_title, o.user_id AS is_online FROM '.$db->prefix.'posts AS p INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'users AS u ON u.id=p.poster_id INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'groups AS g ON g.g_id=u.group_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'online AS o ON (o.user_id=u.id AND o.user_id!=1 AND o.idle=0) WHERE p.topic_id='.$id.' ORDER BY p.id LIMIT '.$start_from.','.$pun_user['disp_posts'], true) or error('Unable to fetch post info', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

and then go for line 200 or around and change

$username = '<a href="profile.php?id='.$cur_post['poster_id'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_post['username']).'</a>';

to

$username = '<a href="profile.php?id='.$cur_post['poster_id'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_post['realname']).'</a>';

That should do the trick.

Forcing people to enter their real name, however, is a lot more difficult because it involves forcing them to enter another profile page and enter something there.....

The German PunBB Site:
PunBB-forum.de

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  • Registered: 2004-03-21
  • Posts: 137

Re: Real Name

Great, thanx!!!

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5 Reply by Benny

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  • Registered: 2004-11-30
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Re: Real Name

Yep nice one Tobi

Yours, Benny.

6 Reply by Raybo

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  • Registered: 2004-04-25
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Re: Real Name

This is exactly what we do on our forum.  it's actually implemented into the registration process.

This has helped significantly in cutting down the rif-faf.

  • From: My mom's womb
  • Registered: 2004-03-21
  • Posts: 137

Re: Real Name

I have made a mod based on Tobis post that does all this. Not only that, it also shows the real names at each post (if anabled by admin that is).

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