The RealName mod is designed to allow you to set up a board in which users have to enter their first and last names, and then to display those names rather than the usernames in most pages – default.asp, topics.asp, members.asp, etc. In some cases, Administrators and Moderators will see the users’ usernames in small text below the real name. This is handy for those sites, such as school sites, in which every member presumably already knows every other member by their real names. This feature can be turned on or off from the Member Details Configuration section of the Admin Options – set to “off” and usernames appear. However, it is very much an "all-or-nothin" mod - meaning, if you decide to display members' real names, they must enter their first and last names in their profiles when registering - if not, then all that will be displayed when the "Display Fullname" option is selected would be a blank. No username, no real name.

The download includes a readme file, as well as the edited versions of all files (except config.asp), and the file to update the database. Please use the edited files included in the download only if you have not modified the same files with another mod, or you will lose any prior modifications.

Attribution: This mod derives from posts from individuals who are members of the Snitz forum – I simply modified it to include last name, added the ability to turn the option to display or require fullnames on and off in the Admin Options, and extended it to most screens rather than just topic.asp. Credit for the "mandatory fields" section goes to HuwR and Classicmotorcycling. Credit for the "display real names in topic.asp" section goes to Hamlin, DoraMoon, and Ranko (Ranko Mariniæ). Any errors in the code are entirely mine.

The Active Users Add-On for the Realname Mod modifies the Active Users 4.0 mod so that, like the Realname Mod, users’ real names are displayed. This is not the full Active User mod modified – meaning, you have to install Active Users 4.0 (if you haven’t already), get it running, then apply this mod. Fortunately, it is only two files that have to be modified.

As with the Fullname and Realname mods, this has only be tested on Access databases, and only with the 3.4.x version of Snitz.

The modified files, along with a HTML readme, are included.