How to get Full Name of logged in user?

Earlier I was getting Full Name of logged in user using

$memID = $_COOKIE['memberID'];

getNickName($memID);

But after upgrade to 7.2, it is changed. Now I am getting Username of logged in user using that.

How to get  Full Name of logged in user?

anyone?

Are you sure about that?  NickName has always been User Name, not Full Name, at least with the 7.1.x line.

@GG. He is sure. Later versions of dolphin 7.1 allowed full names to be used, and the getNickName function was altered to retrived the full name of the member and a new function called getUsername was added to get the users nickname.

@IrfanAlam. Dolphin 7.2 does not have a function to so this. It is an apparent bug. Boonex has removed the FirstName and LastName fields from the Profile table and replaced it with a FullName field but neglected to update the functions to deal with that change.

To solve, add a new function in inc\profiles.inc.php

Look for the getUserName function at about line 445. And add this new function right after it.

function getFullName( $ID = '' )
{
    if ( !$ID && !empty($_COOKIE['memberID']) )
        $ID = (int)$_COOKIE['memberID'];

    if ( !$ID )
        return '';

    $aProfile = getProfileInfo($ID);
    if (!$aProfile)
        return false;

    return $aProfile['FullName'];
}


Then to get the members full name you call this new function instead.

I would submit this to be added to the new Dolphin code, but AlexT is slow to look at existing code pull requests. I have had one pending for a few days and it's just sitting there. I am not going to submit any more changes until the others i have submitted have been merged or rejected, or something.

As i suspected, asking for help from the developers here by allowing us to fork is not going to work.

Issue reported.

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/issues/84

I also made a request to bring back the first and last name fields and let site owners choose what they want. Instead of pushing them to full name or username. We have a dating site, so we like to use First name because of the privacy / anonymity from members. And because of the personal approach we don't like to use the username in communication towards the members.

@deano92964:

Thank you , it worked!

Yes, I knew they allowed full names but I did not know that Boonex fucked with an established function changing it instead of introducing a new one; I guess they decided they would fucked with everyone, site admins as well as developers instead of doing it the correct way.  

Oh, it gets even better, they decided to fuck with the database as well;