Not that I’m cheap (I am), but want to know if User will do this, or is it overkill and I can do it another way. Checked on the EE forum, but getting no love there :(.

So inside the member templates I want to move the user links, like name, logout, etc up higher in the header to match the rest of the site. Obviously if I use

there I get nothing, and if I move the

up I get the breadcrumb links also, which I don’t want. Just logged in as: member name.

So will the User mod do this? It’s a high prce for just this, and while it’s cool, I’m not sure I would use the other options. Or is there another way?

Thanks in advance!

You’re basically after using regular EE global variables and loops in member templates?

Yes, the User Module does just that… well, and more

The User Module basically duplicates all the member module functionality, but in it’s own loops, so you can use them literally anywhere, with anything!

I’d pay $250 for this functionality… if I had to, haha

Ha! Funny guy!

No doubt it’s powerful, just a lot for a personal site for that one item.

But I bought it any .

But how do I get the screen_name to show in the member HTML header like I posted above. When I use the

tag it just outputs the :

tags and not the screen_name.

I’ll look thru the docs more, but don’t see how it works in the member profile theme pages so far as promised.

krim - 25 June 2008 11:18 PM

No doubt it’s powerful, just a lot for a personal site for that one item.

It’s a lot more than that though… see below

krim - 25 June 2008 11:18 PM

But how do I get the screen_name to show in the member HTML header like I posted above. When I use the

{exp:user}

tag it just outputs the :

{exp:user}

tags and not the screen_name. I’ll look thru the docs more, but don’t see how it works in the member profile theme pages so far as promised.

The User module functions/loops are NOT to be placed in the Member templates. User free’s you from those bunk templates, and allows you the liberty to create your own… to pretty much duplicate the member templates.

Well, I understand that much, but all I asked was if it would move the screen_name to another place in the member modules. It would be insane to redo all the templates just for that. I know it’s powerful, just feeling a bit misled, perhaps I didn’t state what I wanted in the first thread.

I have no interest in changing the paths and templates, they work just fine…

Pie Man - 25 June 2008 07:06 AM

The User Module basically duplicates all the member module functionality, but in it’s own loops, so you can use them literally anywhere, with anything!

I’ve clearly stated that the User module duplicates the Member Module with it’s own loops. To say you’ve been mislead is a little strong.

With that said, if you are not happy with the module, still feel mislead, or if it isn’t doing what you want it to do, you’re entitled to a full refund within 30 days of purchase
If this is what you’d like to do, please send me an email at support AT solspace.com

If all you’re interested in is getting that variable to work, and not use the User module, there’s no way to do it, other than one workaround I’ve come up with.
After much desire and “obsession” of getting the {name} variable to work, I finally found a loop-hole. If you don’t mind sacrificing the Breadcrumb template, have a look at the ExpressionEngine Documentation: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/member/overview.html#411