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Link To User Profiles With Username.
Article ID: 925
Written By: JStraitiff
Written On: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:42 am
Description: Learn how to link to a specific user's profile using pre-existing variables

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In the past you may have noticed that there is no easy way to link to a user's profile without custom variables because you need to find the id for that user. Well what most people do not know is that there is already a variable defined for the exact purpose to instead of using the user id, you may just simply add the username. It is as simple as swapping the vars.

User ID method:

Code: Select all: http://www.yoursite.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=user

UserName Method:

Code: Select all: http://www.yoursite.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=user

Of course in the url you replace the domain with your personal one and replace user with the actual username or id.

Here is a good example of this actually being implimented:

Code: Select all:  <strong><a href="{ROOT_PATH}/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un={S_USERNAME}">{S_USERNAME}</a></strong>

In this particular example you are using the variable {ROOT_PATH} which will automatically fill in the path to the root of your forum. Another Variable you are using is {S_USERNAME} which is simply the username of the user who you are logged in as.

The great thing about this trick is that you are not adding anything. This way everything is already included so you dont have to have any extra code pass through the preproccessor.

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