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Yes, I am looking for a feature similar to IPB's display name and login name.
Its because I am setting up a graphics forum, and on the forum there is teams. (Like on many other forums.) Alot of members, when they join a team, like to put a prefix or suffix on their name to show which team they are in.

Editing the log-in name for each team would be annoying though, as you will have to keep remembering new log-in names.

So I am looking for these features in a plug-in.
- Display name and Login name.
- MYPS plug-in that allows people to change their name using points.

If anyone has one, I would love to have it. :]

Thanks for any help.

It's not particularly hard to make, but it could possibly require a LOT of code modifications.

Where abouts do you want the display name shown? Pretty much everywhere, except the login place?

Meh, since it was so simple anyway, I just made it.

I'm going by the assumption that the only change you want is that users log in with a different name.

This is basically what this mod does. Note that the login name can only be changed through the AdminCP - when a user registers on a board, their login name is set to their username.

This mod does require code edits, but I've included pre-edited MyBB 1.2.10 files.

Note, activate the plugin before uploading the code edits! (or you won't be able to log into your AdminCP )

Here's the code edits, if you want to perform them manually:
In /admin/users.php
FIND:

makeinputcode($lang->username, "userusername", $user['username'], 25, '', $mybb->settings['maxnamelength'], 0);

ADD BELOW:

makeinputcode('Login name', "loginname", $user['loginname'], 25, '', $mybb->settings['maxnamelength'], 0);

FIND:

makeinputcode($lang->username, "userusername", '', 25, '', $mybb->settings['maxnamelength'], 0);

ADD BELOW:

makeinputcode('Login name', "loginname", '', 25, '', $mybb->settings['maxnamelength'], 0);

In /inc/functions_users.php
FIND:

$query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."users WHERE username='".$db->escape_string($username)."' LIMIT 1");

REPLACE WITH:

$query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."users WHERE loginname='".$db->escape_string($username)."' LIMIT 1");

FIND:

$query = $db->query("SELECT uid,username,password,salt,loginkey,remember FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."users WHERE username='".$db->escape_string($username)."' LIMIT 1");

REPLACE WITH:

$query = $db->query("SELECT uid,username,password,salt,loginkey,remember FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."users WHERE loginname='".$db->escape_string($username)."' LIMIT 1");

Good luck!

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As for allowing users to change their display name, allowing them to edit their username will only change their display name.
As for a money system integration, I've already made a username changer thing (with this mod, it will change the display name instead) for MyPlaza, so I am not going to bother to write it for another money system.

Probably everything can be done by a plugin =P
What i have so far;
UCP => Edit Profile [

UCP => Change Name [


Edit:
Done, With No File Changes;

^ ?

You mean no code modifications? Maybe, but the implementation won't be that nice.

Well, Both are correct.
Thanks very much you two :]

LeX-, you have a download for that? I'm interested in how you did it without code edits.

Anyways, something hit me. I specifically wrote code to allow multiple people to have the same display name, however, that may be undesirable (PM'ing will be an issue too).
Not hard to remove that code - at work now, so can't do anything.

Can someone update this for 1.4, please?

Can someone update this for 1.4, please?