Real Name

Would the Authorship Module be suitable for what you want to achieve?

From the module's readme.txt:

user use authorship
  This allows a site administrator let regular users manage the 
  display of their own name (trusted users). Create a role and 
  set this perm to that role. Then, users in that role will be
  able to manage the display of their name in much the same way
  site administrators can but only for their own posts.

I'm sure there's a way to do it using your custom profile field, but this is could be an easily implemented alternative.

Printing of the user name is controlled by the theme function theme_username which can be overridden. Add the function below to your themes template.php file. If you do not have a template.php file you will need to create one, make sure it starts with <?php. Replace 'YOUR_PROFILE_FIELD' with the actual field name you used. Note that the users real name will pretty much print anywhere there user name used to print.

function phptemplate_username($object, $link = TRUE) {
	if ( !$object->YOUR_PROFILE_FIELD ) {
		if ( $object->uid && function_exists('profile_load_profile') ) {
			profile_load_profile($object);
		}
	}
	
	if ( $object->YOUR_PROFILE_FIELD ) {
		
		$name = $object->YOUR_PROFILE_FIELD;

    if ( $link && user_access('access user profiles')) {
      return l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('title' => t('View user profile.')));
    }
    else {
      return check_plain($name);
    }
	}
	
	// Profile field not set, default to standard behaviour
	
  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
    // Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many tables.
    if (drupal_strlen($object->name) > 20) {
      $name = drupal_substr($object->name, 0, 15) .'...';
    }
    else {
      $name = $object->name;
    }

    if ( $link && user_access('access user profiles')) {
      $output = l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('title' => t('View user profile.')));
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($name);
    }
  }
  else if ($object->name) {
    // Sometimes modules display content composed by people who are
    // not registered members of the site (e.g. mailing list or news
    // aggregator modules). This clause enables modules to display
    // the true author of the content.
    if ($object->homepage) {
      $output = l($object->name, $object->homepage);
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($object->name);
    }

    $output .= ' ('. t('not verified') .')';
  }
  else {
    $output = variable_get('anonymous', 'Anonymous');
  }

  return $output;
}

I'm using the mass contact module and wondered if I could fill populate the real name in the "name" textbox instead of the username. Here is the relevant code, I think. I've tinkered a bit, substituting profile_fullname in a few places, but it hasn't worked. How can I populate the textbox "name" with the user's full name? I'm using nevets code throughout the rest of the site. I've tried posting a support request on the module's page, but nothing so far - so I thought I'd try my luck here.

function mass_contact_mail_page() {
	global $user;

	$result = db_query('SELECT cid, category, selected FROM {mass_contact} ORDER BY weight, category');
	while ($category = db_fetch_object($result)) {
		$categories[$category->cid] = $category->category;
		if ($category->selected) {
			$default_category = $category->cid;
		}
	}

	if (count($categories) > 0) {
		$form['#attributes'] = array('enctype' => "multipart/form-data");
		$form['#token'] = $user->name . $user->mail;
		$form['contact_information'] = array('#value' => filter_xss_admin(variable_get('mass_contact_form_information', t('Send an email message using the contact form below.'))));
		$form['name'] = array('#type' => 'textfield',
			'#title' => t('Your name'),
			'#maxlength' => 255,
			'#default_value' => $user->uid ? $user->name : '',
			'#required' => TRUE,

This fix is really cool.

There's one minor glitch though: if you look at the list of users (at /admin/user/user) the column that says "username" no longer shows the username, but rather the Full Name (if it exists). Also, the sorting of the username column is done based on the underlying username, not the Full Name that the user sees.

-mark

If you install the above fix and then add a new user, their Full Name does not display because it does not get into the profile_values table.

A quick workaround is Edit their user entry, go to the the Personal Information panel for the user, and hit the Submit button.

A better fix that seems to work is to get the patch from http://drupal.org/node/119114#comment-219903

-mark

I think this module does what you want.

http://drupal.org/project/alt_login

Hi, just wondering how I would make it so that real names would only display on the manage user lists (ie given by the "function theme_user_admin_account"), but everywhere else is unaffected?

I'm trying to add simply add the real name (CCK field) under the user name in some views (like a gallery with fields user picture, user name, and real name). The user picture and user name show up fine, but for some reason it won't show the real name.

Anyone else have this problem, or am I just missing something?

Not sure if I should make a new topic or ask here...
I've got a similar problem, but I'm running Drupal 5.3 with LDAP Intagration + Data + Groups.
I set First Name, Last Name, common Name and Mail to readable by user, no other mapping. Now i'd like to show First Name and Last Name in the Block "Who's online" instead of the Common Name. The code above don't work for me... :(

My ldapdata.conf.php

$GLOBALS['ldap_attributes'] = array(
  'givenName'			=> array('text', 'textfield', t('First Name'), 64, 64),
  'sn'				=> array('text', 'textfield', t('Last Name'), 64, 64), //aka Surname
  'cn'            => array('text', 'textfield', t('Common Name'), 64, 64),
  'mail'          => array('text', 'textfield', t('Email'), 64, 64)
);

thx for help!

Hi Nevets,

So sorry, still don't get it. I'm using Node Profile and have the following fields: field_name and field_lastname and the CCK content type is profile.

Please, how do I substitute username for the first and last name? Have added the following to template.php, but no changes ...

Thank you so much for your kind help.

// Function: phptemplate_loadprofile($type, $uid)
// $type is a drupal content type used
// as a node profile

function phptemplate_loadprofile($type, $uid) {
  $profile = NULL;
  $sql = "SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE uid = %d AND type = '%s'";
  $nid = db_result(db_query($sql, $uid, $type));
if ( $nid ) {
   $profile = node_load($nid);
  }
 
  return $profile;
}

function phptemplate_username($object, $link = TRUE) {
if ( $object->uid ) {
$type = "profile";
  $sql = "SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE uid = %d AND type = '%s'";
  $nid = db_result(db_query($sql, $object->uid, $type));
   if ( $nid ) {
   $profile = node_load($nid);
  }
}
$name = $profile->field_name[0]['value'];
if ( $name ) { 
    if ( $link && user_access('access user profiles')) {
      return l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('title' => t('View user profile.')));
    }
    else {
      return check_plain($name);
    }
}

// Profile field not set, default to standard behaviour

  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
    // Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many tables.
    if (drupal_strlen($object->name) > 20) {
      $name = drupal_substr($object->name, 0, 15) .'...';
    }
    else {
      $name = $object->name;
    }

    if ( $link && user_access('access user profiles')) {
      $output = l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('title' => t('View user profile.')));
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($name);
    }
  }
  else if ($object->name) {
    // Sometimes modules display content composed by people who are
    // not registered members of the site (e.g. mailing list or news
    // aggregator modules). This clause enables modules to display
    // the true author of the content.
    if ($object->homepage) {
      $output = l($object->name, $object->homepage);
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($object->name);
    }

    $output .= ' ('. t('not verified') .')';
  }
  else {
    $output = variable_get('anonymous', 'Anonymous');
  }

  return $output;
}

function phptemplate_user_list($users, $title = NULL) {
  if (!empty($users)) {
    foreach ($users as $user) {
      $items[] = theme('fullname', $user);
    }
  }
  return theme('item_list', $items, $title);
}

Now we have a core patch that needs testing. This will mean that future versions of Drupal will have real/display names built into the system. So, there will be no need in future versions to go hacking code and themes like everyone is having to do now.

If you can spare any time please help future generations by testing the core patch. Let us know what you think. Will it do everything you need it to do?

See: #102679-136: Add a Display Name field to core in addition to Username

Your children will love you for it! ;-)

Cheers Daniel

Well, those amazing folks in Szeged have added voting to the BoFs so if you are interested in attending the great Add a Display Name field to core in addition to Username BoF ( ;-) then add your vote and we can get an idea of numbers and get the best fit room size.

Cheers Daniel

Dave Cohen and I just had a really good face to face discussion with Angie (webchick). In summary, we are going to use the Saturday code sprint to make sure that Drupal 7 will facilitate us building contributed modules to implement display names.

This may mean altering some parts of core in a very small way. If you are passionate about cleaning up "theme_username" throughout core and making it easier for contributed modules to implement display names in a clean and consistent way, then join us at DrupalCon Paris or over the wires.

Saturday September 5th 2009 10:00 to 17:00 CEST
Location: DrupalCon Paris and online elsewhere

If you use IRC then #kendra is ready and waiting for you during those times.

I'll make sure developers are kept well feed and watered. So, if you are at DrupalCon and passionate about making it easy to implement display names then get in touch.

This is pretty much our last chance for making Drupal 7 display name friendly! Let's make it happen!

Cheers Daniel

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http://drupal.org/project/realname