Change "Hello, Guest!" to "Hello, [username] when logged in

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holybrowncow Reply #1, 12 years, 6 months ago

Hello,

I have a drop down menu called "Hello, Guest" which contains the login form. When I log in I want to change the name to "Hello, [username]". How can I achieve this?

Thanks.

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eladnova Reply #2, 12 years, 6 months ago

Search for a snippet by BobRay called Personalize. It allows you to display different chunks depending on the users logged in status. Username display is also a function.

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benmarte Reply #3, 12 years, 6 months ago

If you're using Login it comes with a Profile snippet which can allow you to access the users fields, more info here.

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sottwell Reply #4, 12 years, 6 months ago

You should be able to do something with the Output Modifier

[[!+modx.user.username]]

By default the anonymous user is "(anonymous)" but there should be a way to change that to "guest".

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sottwell Reply #5, 12 years, 6 months ago

Well, well... this is not good. It's hard-coded! modx.class.php line 1207.

'username' => '(anonymous)'

The culture hasn't been initialized yet for dealing with the lexicons, so

'username' => $this->lexicon('anonymous')

doesn't work.

Definitely shouldn't be done that way, though. I'm going to report this as a bug.

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BobRay Reply #6, 12 years, 6 months ago

I would not advise changing the name of the (anonymous) user. Checking that is the fastest way to find out if a user is logged in and changing it might break some things.

It would be safer to use a plugin attached to OnWebPagePrerender with:

$output = &$modx->resource->_output; 
$output = str_replace('(anonymous)','Guest',$output);

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benmarte Reply #7, 12 years, 6 months ago

Here's a sample of how I do it using Logins Profile snippet.

[[!Profile? &user=`[[!getUserId]]` &useExtended=`1`]]

Welcome [[+fullname:empty=`Guest`]]

And this is what my getUserId snippet has.

<?php
$user = $modx->getAuthenticatedUser($modx->context->get("key"));
echo $user->id;

The output modifier will display Guest is the fullname has no value (user is not logged in) without doing any PHP, I just love seeing all the different ways things can be accomplished in MODX it's what makes it awesome.

Good luck.

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BobRay Reply #8, 12 years, 6 months ago

If you're going to use a snippet, why not do the whole task there and cut down on the overhead?

[[!ShowUsername]]

/* ShowUsername snippet */
$output = "";
if ($modx->user->get('id') == 0) {
    $output = 'Guest';
} else {
    $output = $modx->user->get('username');
}
return $output;

Or, with the option to show the full name:

[[!ShowUsername? &fullName=`1`]]

/* ShowUsername snippet */
$output = "";
$fullName = $modx->getOption('fullName', $scriptProperties, false);
if ($modx->user->get('id') == 0) {
    $output = 'Guest';
} else {
    if ($fullName) {
        $profile = $modx->user->getOne('Profile');
        if ($profile) {
            $output = $profile->get('fullname');
        }
    } else {
        $output = $modx->user->get('username');
    }
}
if (empty($output)) {
    $output = $modx->user->get('username');
}
return $output;

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sottwell Reply #9, 12 years, 6 months ago

And if you want this to actually be a link, you can use the snippet as part of the menu title of a resource.

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Bruno17 Reply #10, 12 years, 6 months ago

what about:

Hello [[!+modx.user.id:is=`0`:then=`Guest`:else=`[[+modx.user.username]]`]]

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