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Custom user name from profile

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Yuriy Gerasimov

Current project I am working on has user profiles using profile2 module. So it is pretty common task to replace all links/references on the site with user's proper name from Profile instead of his drupal username.

This is really easy to achieve using hook_username_alter()

<?php
/**
 * Implements hook_username_alter().
 */
function mymodule_username_alter(&$name, $account) {
  $contact_profile = profile2_load_by_user($account, MYMODULE_PROFILE_CONTACT_TYPE);
  if (isset($contact_profile->field_name[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'])) {
    $name = $contact_profile->field_name[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'];
  }
}
?>

And if you will want somewhere in the code display user's name do this using function format_username().

Author: 
ygerasimov
Original Post: 
https://ygerasimov.com/custom-username-profile2

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