Prevent Display Name Change?

[NJBassOnline.com]

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Problem Description:
Hi - Is there any way to stop users from changing their displayed name?

Thanks!

[Peter Duggan]

Search Profile.php for $txt[518] and remove the whole table row that it's in.

Forget that, it's not quite that simple (stops you modifying your profile!).

[Peter Duggan]

Forget that, it's not quite that simple (stops you modifying your profile!).

Sorry about that faux pas, but try this:

Search Profile.php for:

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                     <tr>
                        <td width="45%">
                           <font size="2"><b>' . $txt[68] . ': </b></font><br />
                           <font size="1">' . $txt[518] . '</font></td>
                        <td><input type="text" name="name" size="30" value="' . $memsettings['realName'] . '" /></td>
                     </tr>

And replace with:

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                     <tr><td colspan="2">
                     ' . $userTitleField . '
                     <input type="hidden" name="name" size="30" value="' . $memsettings['realName'] . '" />
                     </td></tr>

Tested and working this time!

[Peter Duggan]

NB Note edit to table row and data tags in solution posted in previous reply (it worked, but the tags weren't right)!

[NJBassOnline.com]

Thanks Peter!   It seems to work!

[Peter Duggan]

Thanks Peter!   It seems to work!

Glad to hear it, but please note that there's *still* a superfluous </td> tag in the last line of the code I posted (so how did I miss that?)!

While IE will probably lap it all up anyway if that's what your users are using, I recommend that you amend the replaced code to:

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                    <tr><td colspan="2">
                    ' . $userTitleField . '
                    <input type="hidden" name="name" size="30" value="' . $memsettings['realName'] . '" />
                    </td></tr>

(About to edit Reply #2 as well for the benefit of anyone else coming to this topic!)

[NJBassOnline.com]

Yep, I already had noticed the extra TD and fixed...

Thanks Again!