 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.
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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.
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