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Easy? Username = Name

@smuddah

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

hey everyone,

i want my “Name” field (which is required by buddypress) to have the same value as the username field.

sounds easy, but i can’t get it to work.

i know i can hide the “name” field in css, but how do i get the stuff a user entered in the hidden field?

there might be another way, but i can’t find it.

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@mikepratt

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

it might be easier to help if you explained why you are trying to do this?

@smuddah

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

hey mike,

sure. because there is no reason for real names in my community. username is enough.

@smuddah

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

i can’t seem to get this to work.

anyone might lead me in to the right direction?

@peterverkooijen

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

Using the Javascript trick: 1. make sure the Javascript is included in the head, 2. add onkeyup=”copyinput()” to the input tag for the Username, 3. edit the Javascript so that this line…

document.getElementById('blogname').value = tmp;

…has the id of the input tag for the Name, instead of blogname. The Javascript would copy the input for username upon typing to name.

@daan77

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

You could write a plugin(or rewrite the bp-code) that makes the name field not required and not a Core field and when submitted overtake the username value into that field?

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