Custom Profile Fields in Shoutbox?

[zerohour118]

I know that it's possible to add a member's avatar to their shoutbox posts, but would it be possible to change your name just in the site shoutbox? If there was a custom profile field for a nickname or out of character name, could you grab the value in that field and use that name rather than the regular display name?

Thank you very much!

[Brian]

Hi, zerohour118.

I gave it a shot and it works with one exception: Users without a name specified will have their messages show alongside blank usernames. It seems that if I use $[shoutbox_post.created_by] or any of its sub-variables inside the custom profile field loop that it gets rid of all the other instances of it in the shoutbox template.

You'd likely need a plugin to make this work as it doesn't seem to be possible to do it cleanly through templates.

[zerohour118]

Thank you very much for your time!

I'll put a request for a plugin, then, though if you wouldn't mind could you show me the way that you tried? Even if I didn't use it I would be interested in seeing how it worked, if only because I'm curious. Thank you~