The site is basically a very simple social networking site for alumni of the school I work for. Users enter their first, middle, and last name as well as their year in order to register. They create their own user name and provide a valid email address.
When users comment, are online, or post anything it displays their user name (e.g xxstargirlz98xx). This is not terribly useful or helpful for identifying users.
I would like Drupal to instead to display their First, Middle, Last name and year so that people can identify one another more easily around the site. Is there a way for Drupal to automatically generate these names based on the forms they used to register and to override the default user name but still allow users to login with their customized user names?
In my searching I have been able to determine that the drupal_get_form() command might have something to do with it, but I do not know how to implement this. Another alternative is the alt_login module but it doesn't appear to do exactly what I want except to give me the opportunity to do the work by hand.
Thank you so much for your help.
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there is the Auto User Names
there is the Auto User Names module....this helps, but I find it still has a few issues keeping me from using it. Too bad as it'd be a super-useful module.