Does anyone know how to activate the [you] command ??

Nick1150 · Last edited by Nick1150 on 12/7/2006, 10:46 am; edited 1 time in total

I know a few forums where, if you type [you] when typing your post it is shown as the username of its member reading. I would like to do the same thing in my forum.

To be precise I will give you an example:

You post: HELLO I AM A FRIEND OF [you]

You press submit and it shows:

HELLO I AM A FRIEND OF Nick1150 (when I read the post)

or

HELLO I AM A FRIEND OF X (when user X reads the post)

or

HELLO I AM A FRIEND OF Y (when user Y reads the post)

Do you know how this can be done ?

Thanks in advance

Nick1150
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Triumvirate · Posted: 12/7/2006, 10:18 am Post subject:

Nick, what forum software are you using? With phpBB2 I believe there is a hack available over at phpBBHacks.com to do this. With SMF it is a built in feature, as I believe it is with vBulletin. I'm not sure about IPB at all though.
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Nick1150 · Posted: 12/7/2006, 10:27 am Post subject:

Its a 2005 phpBB forum
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Nick1150 · Posted: 12/7/2006, 10:47 am Post subject:

Patrick · Administrator

It looks like one of these two might be helpful:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2158
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/976
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Nick1150 · Posted: 12/7/2006, 3:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks alot Patrick.

I tried it but in this line it gives me error

global $userdata;
$bbcode_tpl['you'] = str_replace('{YOU}', "' . $userdata['username'] . '", $bbcode_tpl['you']);

Do you have an idea of what it might be wrong?

PS1. The forum is in Greek language
PS2. 'username' is in red in HAPedit ... like this('username')

Thanks again
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Nick · Posted: 12/9/2006, 4:23 pm Post subject:

Nick1150 · Posted: 12/9/2006, 6:07 pm Post subject:

[quote="Nick"]

Nick · Posted: 12/9/2006, 6:36 pm Post subject:

I can probably do this for you if you're willing to give me FTP information - just PM me if you want to. I'll install the hack Patrick listed in his second link.
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Nick1150 · Posted: 12/9/2006, 8:38 pm Post subject:

It shouldn't be so difficult Confused

Where exactly should it be installed ?

what line more or less I mean ?

Thanks ?

Ps. After all I have to learn
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