username in posts

[Joker™]

plz see the pic attached ..... the username is going out of user info area in posts

this pic if from smf site only...

i also have same problem on my forum .... i know there is one thread on this but it didn't helped on RC2

Hope someone will suggest solution soon

[Nick Whetstone]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is too long of a display name. ;p Not really much I would know how to do except to ask the members to change their display name/change it for them.

[Joker™]

but that;s not a solution .....

the idea in my mind is to too shrink the name size if it exceeds certain limit ....

like after 10 or 15 character of name the font size for name will get reduced itself ....

[Nick Whetstone]

Interesting idea... I may look into writing this into a Mod.

[Joker™]

one of my friends did that already some time ago .... i'll try to ask him..... it took him a very small modification to make it work

[Nick Whetstone]

one of my friends did that already some time ago .... i'll try to ask him..... it took him a very small modification to make it work

Really? If you find it, let me know; I don't recall ever seeing it before.

[Joker™]

Lol nearly a complete year since I asked tis question and a lot has changed since then . I was working on this problem today and got a fix.

To accomplish this, go to

Sources\Load.php (Make backup of file before editing it)

Find:

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// Are we also loading the members custom fields into context?


Add before:

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if(strlen($memberContext[$user]['name']) > 14)
{
$memberContext[$user]['link'] = '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=profile;u=' . $profile['id_member'] . '" title="' . $txt['profile_of'] . ' ' . $profile['real_name'] . '" style="font-size:70%;">' . $profile['real_name'] . '</a>';
}

If i get time, I'm surely gonna alter this a bit more and will be submitting this as a mod .

[Kays]

Why not just reduce the size of the name?

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if(strlen($memberContext[$user]['name']) > 14)
   $memberContext[$user]['name'] = shorten_subject($memberContext[$user]['name'], 14);


[Joker™]

Why not just reduce the size of the name?

The screen shot attached above is of one of the username on SMF. SO my basic idea was to reduce the font size of username, not the characters from username as by shorting the meaning of name might get changed completely.

BTW, nice code Kays.

[Kays]

Your choice. Probably looks nicer too.

I'm more tempted to shorten the name (or hide the overflow) just to annoy the user and discourage long user names. 

[Joker™]

Your choice. Probably looks nicer too.

I'm more tempted to shorten the name (or hide the overflow) just to annoy the user and discourage long user names. 

or we can give choice to user to decide that in which way they want to use it . If you like I can add your code also in the mod.

[Kays]

That bit of code is insignificant. Add it if you wish.

[Joker™]

Well we can manipulate it to some extent, I like the ideology you have used in your code.