theme_username

Format a username.

Parameters

$object: The user object to format, usually returned from user_load().

Return value

A string containing an HTML link to the user's page if the passed object suggests that this is a site user. Otherwise, only the username is returned.

Related topics

Default theme implementations

Functions and templates that present output to the user, and can be implemented by themes.

29 theme calls to theme_username()

File

includes/theme.inc, line 1676

The theme system, which controls the output of Drupal.

Code

function theme_username($object) {

  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
    // Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many tables.
    if (drupal_strlen($object->name) > 20) {
      $name = drupal_substr($object->name, 0, 15) . '...';
    }
    else {
      $name = $object->name;
    }

    if (user_access('access user profiles')) {
      $output = l($name, 'user/' . $object->uid, array('attributes' => array('title' => t('View user profile.'))));
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($name);
    }
  }
  else if ($object->name) {
    // Sometimes modules display content composed by people who are
    // not registered members of the site (e.g. mailing list or news
    // aggregator modules). This clause enables modules to display
    // the true author of the content.
    if (!empty($object->homepage)) {
      $output = l($object->name, $object->homepage, array('attributes' => array('rel' => 'nofollow')));
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($object->name);
    }

    $output .= ' (' . t('not verified') . ')';
  }
  else {
    $output = check_plain(variable_get('anonymous', t('Anonymous')));
  }

  return $output;
}