[Post-nuke-users] real name instead of nick

[Tomas N. <nek...@ce...>]

Hi all,

I would like to ask you for help. I am currently working on a site where I
do not find user's nicks suitable for it. I would prefer their real names to
be shown. It does not necessarily have to be in comments but it should be in
articles.

As far as my knowledge of PHP goes I found out there is something like a
variable called "informant" that is saved in "nuke_stories" mysql table. Am
I right? The thing is that this information is the nick but not the name
(why it is not the id that is unique, then it would take pull needed data
through this information...just an idea....:)). How is it possible to change
it so that it would save the name,not the nick. What and where do I have to
hack the code. Do you anybody already have such a hack? I don't think my PHP
knowledge is enough for it (understand that there is none:)) The best would
be if it could be applicable to comments too but here I would prefer to show
both the information - nick and the name as well.

Concerning this there is one more problem: when new user registers, he does
not have to put his name into the database. Also later when he logs in and
he is about to add some more data, the real name field is optional. I need
this to be required field and it would be best if a user would have to fill
it in right at the beginning of the registration process while he is filling
in the nick and e-mail.

Can you help me somehow with these problems? I would really appreciate this
as it is very important for my site.

Thank you very much in advance.

Tomas Nekvasil