Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : Is it possible to display user names https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:20:17 +0000 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:20:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=8108 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[Is it possible to display user names : marky wrote: In the forum,...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/is-it-possible-to-display-user-names_topic8108_post41485.html#41485 Author: thekiwi
Subject: 8108
Posted: 15 December 2003 at 11:20am

Originally posted by marky marky wrote:

In the forum, were it says Topic Starter,  is it possible to display the posters name (Instead if it saying Guest). (I know if you register it displays, but Is it possible if they are not reg users.

It could ....

Basically when a "guest" posts, their posting name is stored in another table (GuestName).  Their message gets stored in the normal Topic and Thread tables but the AuthorID associated with it is "2", ie the GuestID.  Thus when the summary topic list is shown, currently it steps through 2 tables ... the topics and the associated Author table.

When you view a message, you will see the guests real name.  The same logic that displays it here, could be used to display it on the topics page ... but it would be very messy ... namely because for the topic list you are stepping through a record set ... which has already been created from a SQL query ... whereas the message, is in someway, a single dataset.

So net result is ... nope .. not worth doing.

]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:20:25 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/is-it-possible-to-display-user-names_topic8108_post41485.html#41485 <![CDATA[Is it possible to display user names : In the forum, were it says Topic...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/is-it-possible-to-display-user-names_topic8108_post41470.html#41470 Author: marky
Subject: 8108
Posted: 15 December 2003 at 10:11am

In the forum, were it says Topic Starter,  is it possible to display the posters name (Instead if it saying Guest). (I know if you register it displays, but Is it possible if they are not reg users.

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