User name tokens should use theme('username')

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Hmm...not even the core D7 tokens are using format_username. :/

Filed core issue at #734878: [user:name] tokens should be using format_username() and use [user:name-raw] in email templates, could use a review & RTBC.

I was wondering if the patch will be available for Drupal 6 as well?
Thank you

Well how is this supposed to handle theme_username when it returns HTML?

#5 still needs an answer

I looked around and the below is how it was done in the Mail Editor module.
http://drupal.org/node/792244#comment-2973904

--- mail_edit_user.inc	14 Sep 2009 00:29:43 -0000	1.1.2.2
+++ mail_edit_user.inc	16 May 2010 19:24:39 -0000
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     case 'status_blocked':
     case 'status_deleted':
       $tokens['!username']= "User's username";
+      $tokens['!username_themed']= "User's username (themed)";
       $tokens['!site']= 'Site name';
       $tokens['!login_url']= 'One time login URL for password reset';
       $tokens['!uri_brief']= "Website's URL without the leading http://";
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
   $account = $mail['params']['account'];
   $language = $mail['language'];
   $tokens = array(
+    '!username_themed' => strip_tags(theme('username', $account, array('plain' => TRUE))),
     '!username' => $account->name,
     '!site' => variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'),
     '!login_url' => user_pass_reset_url($account),

I'm working on D7 Submitted By module and found that there is no way to have a $submitted with a linked user name, like we normally have for content and comment.

There should be 2 additional tokens through theme('username'), IMO:
- plain strip tags, [node:author:name_themed_plain]
- fully themed (with link, etc), [node:author:name_themed]

@ckng: That's a much different issue. Please file a new issue.

@Dave: I think it end up as the same issue, just that I've put it to my use case.

I would suggest [user:name] to remain as output from format_username().

It is essentially adding [user:name_themed] and [user:name_themed_plain] through theme('username'), that get propagated as [node:author:name_themed] & [node:author:name_themed_plain], respectively.

The name is a bit long though, any suggestion?

I've put together a quick patch, see attached.

So in other words, it's a new token from what is being discussed here, and hence a feature request. Using theme_username() in the D6 token would still try to output as plain text. Please file a new issue.

There is also no need for a user:name_themed_plain ... that's what user:name is for.

#11 shows the new tokens available but they're not getting populated for me.

There is also no need for a user:name_themed_plain ... that's what user:name is for.

I can still see a need for this. It will run theme_username() and strip the tags. Could easily be different than $user->name.

Looks like the patch is adding to the switch for taxonomy tokens.

Updated patch:

Sorry for so many comments..

The 6 year old patch in #17 to token.tokens.inc applied cleanly to the latest token 7.x-1.x-dev and if applicable still needs review.