Changing the "name" in profile??

[GWP]

I have tried to search for this but with "name" and "profile" I get so many returns I couldn't start to find it.
Here's my problem.

A member wants to change his "Name" (the one that people will see), but the box is not viewable in modify/profile (the text is?).
Logging in as admin and viewing his profile, the boxes are there?

I cannot find anything that disables the member from changing his name in my admin section.

Can anyone help please??

[Angel Skin]

Umm, I think in config there is a box that needs ticking allowing members to change display name.

[GWP]

I have been through the whole admin section looking for it, but cannot find it?
Would you please look on your board and tell me the run to get to it eg; admin/forum config/forum pref & settings/etc

That would be a great help as it would show if my admin or profile page is wrong.

[[Unknown]]

I don't believe there is such an option....

Do understand that they can't change their membername - only their displayed name.

Have any mods installed?  Ie. the supermod?

-[Unknown]

[GWP]

I dont have that mod installed, just the ones written in my signature below (i keep it up to date)

I did find some stuff in Profile.php which was this

// create the custom title field if allowed
   $userTitleField = '';
   if ($modSettings['titlesEnable'] == 1)
   {
         if ($settings[7] == 'Administrator' || $settings[7] == 'Global Moderator')
            $userTitleField = '
               <tr>
                  <td width="45%"><font size="2"><b>' . $txt['title1'] . ': </b></font></td>
                  <td><input type="text" name="usertitle" size="30" value="' . $memsettings['usertitle'] . '" /></td>
               </tr>';
         else
            $userTitleField = '
               <tr>
                  <td width="45%"><font size="2"><b>' . $txt['title1'] . ': </b></font></td>
                  <td>' . $memsettings['usertitle'] . '</td>
               </tr>';

so i changed it to this:

// create the custom title field if allowed
   $userTitleField = '';
   if ($modSettings['titlesEnable'] == 1)
   {
         if ($settings[7] == 'Administrator' || $settings[7] == 'Global Moderator')
            $userTitleField = '
               <tr>
                  <td width="45%"><font size="2"><b>' . $txt['title1'] . ': </b></font></td>
                  <td><input type="text" name="usertitle" size="30" value="' . $memsettings['usertitle'] . '" /></td>
               </tr>';
         else
            $userTitleField = '
               <tr>
                  <td width="45%"><font size="2"><b>' . $txt['title1'] . ': </b></font></td>
                  <td><input type="text" name="usertitle" size="30" value="' . $memsettings['usertitle'] . '" /></td>
               </tr>';

In other words just copying the script for the Moderator.
I realise that this is for the custom title, but the box for that was not there before.
Also, in my English.lng file I have referneces to "Enable Custom Title" that doesn't show in my admin.php.
maybe I have a mod 1/2 installed??

[[Unknown]]

Looking at that list....

You do realize that the purpose of the "Name mod" is to make it so your users cannot change their names.... right?

The user title is purposefully only for Administrators and Global Moderators.

-[Unknown]

[GWP]

Yes, You are right [Unknown].
I don't thin k I want them changing their names whenever they feel like it.
But I do want them to be able to add some sort of title if they want.

I think I need to remove the text part of the profile, that shows them their name.

Thanks again for you help.
P.S. any chance of writing a "Boardlinks" mod PLEASE!!
http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?board=141;action=display;threadid=20426

(Begs and Pleads)

[Spaceman-Spiff]

i thought the boardlinks thing is done already
if u want to write a lot about a board, why not put it in the description, u can put html/ubbc code in board description

[GWP]

The problem with my version of boardlinks spaceman is that I have to keep changing the code manually, and so far I have managed to mess it up 90% of the time!

The SP1.1 version was managed through the admin section and worked like adding more smillies, where you could simply tell it what board, the name of the link and the title to display.

I can see me in a few weeks time (when I have forgotten where/how to do it), really struggling to add a new one.

I did one and it keeps saying to me "Error expecting ";" in line 193, char 11 of file.php. Looking at line 193, i see it is just something like

line 192: </div>
line 193: </body>
line 194: </html>

It drives me up the wall!!

[Angel Skin]

I have been through the whole admin section looking for it, but cannot find it?
Would you please look on your board and tell me the run to get to it eg; admin/forum config/forum pref & settings/etc

That would be a great help as it would show if my admin or profile page is wrong.

My apologies, I'm thinking of phpbb.

[king_killa]

you don't want them to change there name, but a title?
custom title solution: HERE