By stevenandwes on

Hi,

I'm trying to override the theme_username function in order to display a users first and last name instead of their username. I have two custom fields on the Profile Information page called "profile_first" and "profile_last" which requires all users to enter a first and last name. Pretty much other than that all I've done is copied the function from theme.inc into my template.php file and renamed the function phptheme_username.

Now I'm stuck here. Any further help would be awesome.

Thanks
-Steve

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WorldFallz commented

You may wish to checkout the http://drupal.org/project/realname module which does exactly this. I use it and it works great.

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stevenandwes commented

Yeah my boss wants me to hard code it. I suggested that as well.

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WorldFallz commented

Then use the code. ;-)

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stevenandwes commented

What do you mean?

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WorldFallz commented

The module does exactly what you're asking for-- take the _username code from there.

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stevenandwes commented

So I copied the _username code from the realname module and pasted it into my template.php file in place of the old _username code, and nothing happened... any help would be awesome.

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WorldFallz commented

Sorry-- I didn't mean to imply it was that simple or you should grab the whole function-- I meant to look to that code for what you needed to add to your theme_username override.

Something like the following should do it:

function phptemplate_username($object) {

  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {

    $fullname = $object->profile_firstname . " " . $object->profile_lastname;

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

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

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

  return $output;
}