Real name in main menu

This is a problem with core not using theme('username',...) in the user module. See my addition to #73813: Main Navigation Box should allow for greater flexibility in customization (user.module).

Since I cannot encourage core hacks, I can't tell you to make this change. But I can say that I first tested in on a 6.x system.

Aha, you are allowed to change your theme code! So I changed this line in block.tpl.php from

  <h2><?php print $block->subject ?></h2>

to

  <h2><?php global $user; print $block->module == 'user' ? theme('username', $user) : $block->subject ?></h2>

THANK YOU! That's exactly the code I was looking for!

Someone posted slightly better code on the handbook page, so you might want to look at that. I still need to see if there is a way to intercept that code.

Can I ask a further question about this....

The code from the docs is:

<?php
global $user;
print ($block->module == 'user' && $block->subject == $user->name) ? theme('username', $user) : $block->subject
?>

I've no idea what that means... I don't know php. Anyway...

My theme block.tpl.php currently contains:
<h2 class="title"><?php print $block->subject ?></h2>

How can I give the new realnames script the class of 'title'?

Thanks.

EDIT:
I wasn't getting the desired result simply inserting the new script was because the heading became a
link and wasn't being styled. Doh! I had to add a h2.title a entry to style.css

Sounds like this is now fixed.