[7.2.2] - Custom Title vs Title display

Simple modification that checks if a user has a Custom Title defined. If they do, then the Custom Title replaces the post based Title. (thanks to the pishmeister, who no one knows yet for this)

If they don't have a Custom Title, then the post based Title will be displayed.

Also does a small tweak to not include extra
when the Rating system is turned off or the user doesn't have a rating. Right now it slams in a
regardless. This saves some vertical space.

Ok.. here goes.

Open: /templates/default/post_side.tpl

Find:

Code

{if $postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{$postrow[post].CustomTitle}
<br />
{/if}
{$postrow[post].Title}
<br />
{$postrow[post].Rating}
<br />

Replace with:

Code

{if $postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{$postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{else}
{$postrow[post].Title}
{/if}
<br />
{if $postrow[post].Rating}
{$postrow[post].Rating}
<br />
{/if}

done!

Open: /templates/default/post_top.tpl

Find:

Code

<span class="small">
{if $postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{$postrow[post].CustomTitle}
<br />
{/if}
{$postrow[post].Title}
</span>

Replace with:

Code

<span class="small">
{if $postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{$postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{else}
{$postrow[post].Title}
{/if}
</span>

Done!

Open: /templates/default/post_comments.tpl

Find:

Code

{if $postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{$postrow[post].CustomTitle}
<br />
{/if}
{$postrow[post].Title}
<br />
{$postrow[post].Rating}
<br />

Replace with:

Code

{if $postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{$postrow[post].CustomTitle}
{else}
{$postrow[post].Title}
{/if}
<br />
{if $postrow[post].Rating}
{$postrow[post].Rating}
<br />
{/if}

Done!

Upload your files!

Enjoy

if you want to go further and also color the title or custom title according to the username's color, you can do the following.

open: /scripts/showflat.inc.php

find:

PHP Code

	 $postrow[$i]['Title']	= $Title;
		$postrow[$i]['CustomTitle'] = $CustomTitle;

add above:

PHP Code

	 // SD - Mod (color, based upon user color or admin/mod color
		if ($Color) {
			$Title = "<span style="color:$Color;">$Title</span>";
			if ($CustomTitle) {
				$CustomTitle = "<span style="color:$Color;">$CustomTitle</span>";
			}
		}

		if (($PostStatus == "Administrator") && (!$Color)) {
			$Title = "<span class="adminname">$Title</span>";
			if ($CustomTitle) {
				$CustomTitle = "<span class="adminname">$CustomTitle</span>";
			}
		}
		elseif (($PostStatus == "Moderator") && (!$Color)) {
			$Title = "<span class="modname">$Title</span>";
			if ($CustomTitle) {
				$CustomTitle = "<span class="modname">$CustomTitle</span>";
			}
		}

Done!

Upload this puppy

Enjoy

Originally Posted by sirdude

Enjoy

Enjoyed!

Pfff, just moved all custom titles we had in our post title fields that were imported over from 6.5.x. Removed the hacks that allowed me to edit the post title instead of the custom title.

if 'Pfff' a good thing ?

i hope

Originally Posted by sirdude

if 'Pfff' a good thing ?

Pfff is the best

That's from being tired from lots of work

But it saves in the long run having everything cleaned up again

Originally Posted by blaaskaak

Enjoyed!

Enjoy it even more?

/scripts/online.inc.php

find:

Code


		if ($CustomTitle) {
			$Title = "$CustomTitle<br />$Title";
		}

replace with:

Code


		if ($CustomTitle) {
			$Title = $CustomTitle;
		}

/scripts/showprofile.inc.php

find:

Code


	$smarty_data = array(
		"profileuser" => $profileuser,
		"Fakeemail" => $Fakeemail,
		"Picture" => $Picture,
		"width" => $width,
		"height" => $height,
		"User" => $User,
		"Title" => "$Title<br />  $CustomTitle",

replace with:

Code


	if ($CustomTitle) { $title=$CustomTitle; };
	$smarty_data = array(
		"profileuser" => $profileuser,
		"Fakeemail" => $Fakeemail,
		"Picture" => $Picture,
		"width" => $width,
		"height" => $height,
		"User" => $User,
		"Title" => $Title,

this will take of who's online and the userprofile screen!

hehe and just to be totally complete.. viewmessage too !

i just didn't post them here..

blaaskaak.. ty!!

if you haven't posted the viewmessage (both script + template) thingie, i will do it later on today..

Originally Posted by sirdude

hehe and just to be totally complete.. viewmessage too !

That one already looks ok. It uses the post_side and post_top templates if I'm correct.

Quote

if you haven't posted the viewmessage (both script + template) thingie, i will do it later on today..

Don't worry, just concentrate on the naked chat suggestions I made

hrm. you have a point.. i was stuck back in 7.0.2 days with the templates. good catch..

ok.. i will be working on the unclothed messaging system this weekend. i'll see what i get added.

Please see this post. I would like it to operate a bit differently myself.

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/195926

Okay just want to say Thanks guys.

This mod by SirDude and blaaskaak works just fine on my site. I'm happy with it.

The issue appears to be that if you want BOTH Default and Custom titles to show then this mod won't work for you. For me I just want the one Default to show and it works great.

Currently the code in 7.2.2 is less than adequate for me and I had to keep manually updating the database each day to fix it.

Doing these fixes as shown by SirDude and blaaskaak will restore it back to they way it used to work in 6.x (at least as I recall it working)

Thanks again guys

Modification Name: If Custom Title [beta]

Author(s): Allen Ayres

Description: If you have a custom title, this displays it instead of the member title.

Requirements: UBB.Threads 7.2.x (may work with other 7 series)

Demo: None yet

Notes: I may have missed some spots, but I think this covers most

Description: Instructions

Attached File

IfCustomTitle.txt (46 downloads)

https://www.ubbdev.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/314979#Post314979

Luckely it's build in for 7.3.

Looks good allen, but I could have sworn someone else posted this before...

BTW, this will likely throw out "undefined index" errors, you should read up on isset

no, it won't

mmmhmmm

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Looks good allen, but I could have sworn someone else posted this before...

BTW, this will likely throw out "undefined index" errors, you should read up on isset

?

I'm calling variables already in place, shouldn't be any errors

btw, I had no idea it was done already, I coulda used this a month ago more than once.

Originally Posted by AllenAyres

Modification Name: If Custom Title [beta]

Author(s): Allen Ayres

Description: If you have a custom title, this displays it instead of the member title.

Requirements: UBB.Threads 7.2.x (may work with other 7 series)

Demo: None yet

Notes: I may have missed some spots, but I think this covers most

Merged here... you might consider collecting the pieces in the topic and combining for a text file instruction, would help those trying to install it once