Displaying First and Last Name instead of Username
Hello everyone,
I am a drupal, php, newbie working in a summer internship and my boss is having me make some changes to our site.
I am trying to get an internal company website to display a users real name instead of the username. Essentially my boss wants it to always say "Welcome! first_name last_name" at the top of the page.
So far I've edited the page.tpl.php file to look like this.
print $site_html . '' . ' Welcome! ' . $user->name . '
' ;
that puts a "Welcome! user_name" right where I want it.
After that I edited the personal information page to include a profile_first and profile_last so the user has to enter their first and last name.
I'm trying to replace the "user_name" with "profile_first", but when I do nothing is displayed, and I get the feeling I'm going about this the wrong way.
Any help would be great thanks.
Have you looked at the
Have you looked at the Realname module?
<?phpglobal $user;$userId =
<?phpglobal $user;
$userId = $user->uid;
profile_load_profile($user);
$firstName = $user->{profile_first};
$lastName= $user->{profile_last}; ?>
<?php print $firstName; . ' ' . $lastName; ?>something like that should work to print the name of the logged in user. That's how I used it, although I was using the content profile module to define custom fields for the user.
Thanks Much!
We are looking into the RealName module but for now we are just going to use the code that samwich provided, its simple and most importantly is working. Thanks a bunch everyone.