How to make nickname visable ( no username )

[Pala]

Hello to all,

how I can make my chat so that the nicknames visable and not the usernames like it is now ?

Please help me with this its very important for my site.


Best regards,
Pala

[Jason]

In the includes/config.php file you can change the DB_USERTABLE_NAME value to be your database field that holds the nickname instead of the username.

[mattmcguire]

Would it be possible to incorporate the function get_username($userid) from the /includes/integration.php? That way we can tweak the results as necessary. In my case, the table I'm using has both firstName and lastName fields. Within the integration.php I have it concatenate the two and return that as the users_name:

$users_name = $row['firstName'].' '.$row['lastName'];

But it could be further tweaked to limit the results to a certain number of characters, or only show first names and last initials, etc.

This could give us a little more customization without having to alter our databases to include fields aren't necessary.

Thanks for the great work so far!

[Jason]

Yes, but you need to change the friends/online list MySQL statements as well and concat the username part.

The get username function is only for the logged in user for their GUI.

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