[development] Improving theme('username') with inspiration fromFacebook

[Walt Daniels]

Way too English centric. Many languages have no matching features.

Personally I see no need to have pages personalized with my name but I do
need to know if I am logged in or not. Just the presence of a logon box is
sufficient for that. I really object to the hack that changes the word
Navigation to my logon name that is part of core behavior.

-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Moshe Weitzman
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:28 AM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: [development] Improving theme('username') with inspiration
fromFacebook

We have a handy function, theme('username') which accepts a uid and name and
returns a profile link. But perhaps that function should be a bit more
expressive. See below for the parameters to the equivalent Facebook function
(from
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:name):

    * Required
          - int uid - The id of the user whose name to show.
    * Optional
          - bool firstnameonly - Show only the user's first name.
(default value is false)
          - bool linked - Link to the user's profile. (default value is
true)
          - bool lastnameonly - Show only the user's last name.
(default value is false)
          - bool possessive - Make the user's name possessive (e.g.
Joe's instead of Joe). (default value is false)
          - bool reflexive - Use "yourself" if useyou is true.
(default value is false)
          - bool useyou - Use "you" if uid matches the logged in user.
Setting to false doesn't work if you use the "loggedinuser"
substitution for uid, since users can get freaked out by that.
(default value is true)
          - string ifcantsee - Alternate text to display if the logged in
user cannot access the user specified. (default value is [empty
string])
          - bool capitalize - Capitalize the text if useyou==true and
loggedinuser==uid. (default value is false)

Do folks think this is a good idea for Drupal core? If not, why? Could we
deal with 'possesive' and 'reflexive' flags in a way that respects all
languages? I know that this function can be enhanced in Contrib, but my
desire is to improve the core.


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