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Posted: **Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:46 am**

I needed CGBlog to display a user's full name instead of their username, so I created this tag, called GetFullName
it does require the username as a parameter though.

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global $gCms;
$db =& $gCms->GetDb();
$user_name = $params['username'];

$query = "SELECT first_name, last_name FROM ".cms_db_prefix()."users WHERE username=?";
$row = $db->GetRow($query, array($user_name));
if($row)
{
   $result = $row['first_name'] . " " . $row['last_name'];
}
else
{
   $result = "Username: $user_name doesn't exist";
}

return $result;

Next, you can use it in your CGBlog templates like this:

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<div class="CGBlogPostAuthor">{GetFullName username=$entry->author}</div>

You can probably use it as well in modules like News

Hope somebody else finds this useful, thanks to Stikki for the help in making it work

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:20 pm**

OK this UDT has been revamped, because in my site I needed certain FEU users to post articles to CGBlog, using the FEsubmit option, therefore the above UDT wouldn't get their actual name, as they're stored in different places in the Database.
Once again many thanks to Stikki for all the Help.

So now two parameters are accepted in the call:
- username (this is the user name that you want to get the full name from)
- feufield (this is the field that you want to fetch from FEU properties)

In my case I created a Property in FEU which holds a user's full name and I called it 'name'
so my call in my CGBlog template looks like this:
{GetFullName username=$entry->author feufield='name'}

UDT:

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// This UDT returns the "Full Name" of an Admin User, requires the username as a param
global $gCms;
$db =& $gCms->GetDb();

$user_name = isset($params['username']) ? $params['username'] : "";

$feu_field = isset($params['feufield']) ? $params['feufield'] : "";

$query = "SELECT first_name, last_name FROM ".cms_db_prefix()."users WHERE username=?";
$row = $db->GetRow($query, array($user_name));
if($row)
{
   $result = $row['first_name'] . " " . $row['last_name'];
}
else
{

 if($gCms->modules['FrontEndUsers']['object'] && !empty($feu_field)) {

   $query = "SELECT id FROM ".cms_db_prefix()."module_feusers_users WHERE username=?";
   $feid = $db->GetOne($query, array($user_name));

   if($feid) 
   {
   $query = "SELECT data FROM ".cms_db_prefix()."module_feusers_properties WHERE userid=? AND title=?";
   $result = $db->GetOne($query, array($feid,$feu_field));
   
   }
   
 }
}

if(!$result) 
{
   $result = "Username: $user_name doesn't exist or feufield is not set";
}

return $result;

Posted: **Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:01 pm**

Hi all,

Can someone please tell how I can get this UDT work in CMSMS 1.10.3 and CGBlog 1.9.8; Blog entries have to be submitted using Feusubmit

Using hexdj UDT:
When an admin post a blog entry, his name is correctly show but when the blog entry is posted using FEUsubmit, I get "Username: name@website.com doesn't exist or feufield is not set"

Any help please...

Posted: **Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:42 pm**

Most possibly you have to change

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global $gCms

to

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$gCms = cmsms();

and

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$gCms->modules['FrontEndUsers']['object']

to

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cms_utils::get_module('FrontEndUsers')

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