Twitter-style [@name]

[Lee Merriman]

Plugin Name: Twitter-like [@name]
Plugin Description: [@name] will return link to names profile.
Compatibility: 1.4.x
Version: 1.2
License: You may edit, but do not redistribute without permission

Installation: Upload the PHP file to your ./inc/plugins folder and activate it!

Download: Download!

Demo: Demo


Changelog/News:

• V1 Released, made in about 15-20 minutes.
  
• V1.1 Released, now shows with username styles as suggested by alex clone here.
  
• V1.2 Released, now uses build_profile_link to, well, you guessed it, build profile links. Suggested by labrocca here.
  

To do:

Nothing, how can I improve this? I'm considering adding something to send a PM to a user telling them they've been mentioned. But that might not happen.

To use:


Stick a simple little [@user] in your post and it'll replace it. Partial usernames work too!

[HostDash]

Very nice , I like it.

I got something you can do to improve it:

Make it show the colour ranks color? Ex. Your name on your forum is red so @Lee would be @Lee $Msg

[Lee Merriman]

Very nice , I like it.

I got something you can do to improve it:

Make it show the colour ranks color? Ex. Your name on your forum is red so @Lee would be @Lee $Msg

I think that'll be easy.

[Bit 'n Bang]

Very nice. Good job.

[edjca]

Can you make it so the brackets aren't neccesary? If a regular user sees it they'll assume it's just @username and not [@username]

[Lee Merriman]

I could but there are other issues..

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So now it uses username styles. Now, I'd love to do it so you could just do @UserName but what if someone says something like .. "!@!@!@!@!@!" or posts an email address.

[Lee Merriman]

I am so not feeling the love.

[User 2877]

Kudos..I actually like this.

TIP: Use the built in MyBB function build_profile_link(). It's going to be much better.

[Lee Merriman]

Kudos..I actually like this.

TIP: Use the built in MyBB function build_profile_link(). It's going to be much better.

Ah, good god, I've gotta start looking where those functions are used, rather than where they're defined .. My head STILL hurts. Bleh.

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Well, that was rather easy.

[User 2877]

Lines like this are written poorly.

$query2[$y] = $db->query("SELECT * FROM {$config['database']['table_prefix']}users WHERE username LIKE '%".$uinfo2[1][$y]."%' LIMIT 1");

Do this:

$query2[$y] = $db->simple_select("users", "username", "username LIKE '%".$uinfo2[1][$y]."%',array('limit' => 1));

That should work.

Really you shouldn't use LIKE imho. Basically if username doesn't exist then just display the regular code. A couple more things could be fine tuned on this plugin.