Display the user name, different from login

[hafa]

How can I display the real user's name instead of the one used in the login?

For example, let's say my user login is "admin" or "hafa"

But I want to display my real name on the site, like so:

"Posted by Rafael"

So the question is how to get real names, instead of the users login.

[mr-fan]

where do you wanna show them? backend/frontend?

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/6343-how-to-add-more-fields-for-processwires-user/

regards mr-fan

[hafa]

Ha, found out how a couple of minutes later after posting

Thanks for the link mr-fan.

So if I create a new field "real name" for the users, how do I display it in the frontend?

[Philipp]

The "user" is basically just another Page. So you can add a field to the user template and access it from the API.

1. Create a field for your name, e.g. fullname. Or use an existing one
2. Go to Site > Setup > Templates and then click on "Filter". Enable that system-templates are shown
3. Edit the "user" template and add your fullname field. Save
4. Go to your users profile and enter your name
5. On the front end side, access the field as usual with $user->fullname

EDIT:

Output the "fullname" field of the user, that last modified the page: $page->modifiedUser->fullname.

[hafa]

The "user" is basically just another Page. So you can add a field to the user template and access it from the API.

1. Create a field for your name, e.g. fullname. Or use an existing one
2. Go to Site > Setup > Templates and then click on "Filter". Enable that system-templates are shown
3. Edit the "user" template and add your fullname field. Save
4. Go to your users profile and enter your name
5. On the front end side, access the field as usual with $user->fullname

EDIT:

Output the "fullname" field of the user, that last modified the page: $page->modifiedUser->fullname.

Thank you Philipp =) I hadn't noticed the system-templates.

What the "modifiedUser" in the code means?

[Philipp]

It's a property of the $page that returns the last user that modified the page.

See: http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/page/built-in-fields-reference/page-modifieduser/

[hafa]

Ok, thank you 

[Craig]

Just a small comment (addition to Philipp's suggestion): In some of my PW sites, I use the existing "title" field to hold the user's full/display name.

[Beluga]

So how do I get the "fullname" field to appear in the profile edit view? Even my superuser can't see it.

Another strange thing I noticed: in preparation for CSV import of users, I added the title field to the user template (in addition to fullname). If I input a fullname and a title for my superuser + tick a checkbox to add a role, none of the values get saved!

[LostKobrakai]

You need to edit the ProcessProfile module. There you can chose out of the template's fields which one are visible.

[Beluga]

You need to edit the ProcessProfile module. There you can chose out of the template's fields which one are visible.

Wow, I never would have thought of that.

The unrelated problem of not being able to assign my superuser to a new role remains (the same behavior is in another site without any user template modifications). Yet in the other site my superuser also has the "blog-author" role.. Well, I can live with it.