0003068: render_full_name in core/print.php - MantisBT - Signup temporarily disabled due to spam

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003068	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2003-03-19 16:16	2009-06-26 12:00

Reporter	idcmp	Assigned To	grangeway
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required

Summary	0003068: render_full_name in core/print.php
Description	I'd like one central PHP function that could be used to 'render' the full name of a userid. In the default Mantis distribution it would just return back the userid, but in localized customizations it could do things like getpwnam, or an LDAP lookup.
Additional Information	In order to do this right now, the code that populates the drop downs, the email link, the email+subject link and a few other places need to be modified. On the particular system I'm on, we all have local shell accounts, so I can use the gecos from getpwnam. Others may be in similar situations; or want to render userids differently. [ I'm willing to provide a simple patch if the idea is accepted. ]
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jfitzell 2003-03-19 22:06 reporter ~0004014	Well there is user_get_name() which is supposed to be used everwhere to get the user name (because it allows for the fact that the user may have been deleted). Would changing that in your installation solve your problem? Hmm... I guess there are places where we just select all the user names though and therefore know that the users exist. I'd hate to have to call a function to lookup the username for each one.... thoughts?

idcmp 2003-03-20 17:28 reporter ~0004018	user_get_name returns the username given a userid. render_full_name would return a humanly-understandable form of the username given the username. So: user_get_name(9290) => "jsmith"; render_full_name("jsmith") => "John Smith"; Those dropdown lists tend to be small for most projects, so the performance impact would be minimal. Those with big projects could do more interesting things (cache lookups, etc)

idcmp 2009-01-27 03:34 reporter ~0020724	Just for the record, I don't need this anymore. ;-)

grangeway 2009-05-30 20:35 reporter ~0021988	Marking as resolved then Paul