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Hello,

I'm pretty new with CiviCRM and Drupal. I'm setting up a site for a non-profit, using Drupal 6 and Civi 3.4. I'm using Civi profiles for user registration. In Drupal, I want to display the user's full name rather than their user name in places such as author pane (for forums, blogs and comments), and in places such as the logged-in block and users online block. I don't have Drupal profile fields for first and last names, but I'm displaying the civi profile in the user profile page using views. I've got the Real Names module installed as well, but it's designed to work with User Profiles and the APK, so I'm not sure it's of any use here...

What is the best way to fetch the information from civi? Keep in mind I'm not very good at php and still learning my way around Drupal and CiviCRM, so talk slow... :-)

Any help is much appreciated.

Here's some code that I used to do this on a D6 site - others may have a more efficient approach.  You will need to put this in your theme's template.php and replace "YOURTHEME" with the name of your theme...

/*
 *Override_function to replace username with First and Last Name pulled from Civi.
*/
function YOURTHEME_username($object) {

  /* If there is a uid and a name, then there should be a CiviCRM record */
  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
    civicrm_initialize();
    require_once('api/v2/Contact.php');
    require_once('api/v2/UFGroup.php');
    $usernameCiviID = civicrm_uf_match_id_get($object->uid);
 
    $params = array(
                    'contact_id'          => $usernameCiviID,
                    'return.display_name' => 1,
                    );
    $userCiviLookup = civicrm_contact_search( $params );
    $userDisplayName = $userCiviLookup[$usernameCiviID]['display_name'];
    /* Check for error */
    if ( civicrm_error ( $userCiviLookup ) ) {
      drupal_set_message($userDisplayName['error_message'], $type = 'error');
      $userDisplayName = $object->name;
      }

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

    if (user_access('access user profiles')) {
      /*
       * Drupal 6 link function: l($text, $path, $options = array())
       */
      $output = l($userDisplayName, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('absolute' => TRUE,'attributes' => array('title' => t('View user profile.'))));
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($userDisplayName);
    }
  }
  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;
}


Problem fixed. I had the Real Names module enabled...