Recently i was asked to replace the username in the "submitted by" section with the user's first name and last name ( assuming that there are profile fields named "last_name" and "first_name" and the fields are created with the profile module . This of course does not mean that you cant use the content profile module as an alternative but you would have to replace the profile variable fields with the content profile variable fields ). So if for example your userame is "superman" and you create a new blog post then the username 'superman' would be replaced by the last_name and first_name of the profile fields . So superman is "Clark Kent" now :) . . .
So how do we ovveride this ?
The solution to this problem is to add at our template.php file the mytheme_preprocess_node function and then replace the vars we want with the profile fields . So since i am using the fusion theming system and my subtheme is the superheroes theme , i should create a template.php file inside my fusion subtheme folder and add there my overrides . So my fusion directory structure is like this now : fusion/subtheme/template.php and if my fusion subtheme name is superheroes then my path is : sites/all/themes/fusion/superheroes/template.php . ( Please notice that it's template.php and not template.tpl.php ) .
@date by !first !last', array( '!first' => user_load(array('uid' => $vars['node']->uid, 'status' => 1))->profile_firstname, '!last' => user_load(array('uid' => $vars['node']->uid, 'status' => 1))->profile_lastname, '!username' => theme('username', $vars['node']), '@date' => format_date($vars['node']->created,'custom', "F jS, Y"), '!microdate' => format_date($vars['node']->created,'custom', "Y-m-d\TH:i:sO") ) ); } ?>And how about the comments ?
Basically it's the same with a few variable name changes.
@date by !first !last', array( '!first' => user_load(array('uid' => $vars['comment']->uid, 'status' => 1))->profile_firstname, '!last' => user_load(array('uid' => $vars['comment']->uid, 'status' => 1))->profile_lastname, '!username' => theme('username', $vars['comment']), '@date' => format_date($vars['comment']->timestamp,'custom', "F jS, Y"), '!microdate' => format_date($vars['comment']->timestamp,'custom', "Y-m-d\TH:i:sO") ) ); } ?>
