Does anyone of a way to pull and display info of the author of a post in the Discussion Forums module?
We’re having a very serious problem where users are signing up with similar screen names to older members and trying to phish personal information (we have a sort of a buy/sell category where users can sell second hand item to other users).
For example, the old user is KIDENIA and the new, fake user is KlDENIA. Different screen names, but appear the same to the untrained eye. Or A5M_RAP instead of ASM_RAP.
I *need* to find a way to display the author’s member group or pull the author ID so people, while reading a thread, can know when a user has been banned or not. But no matter what global variable I use, I always get the logged-in user’s info instead of the post author’s info.
Can this be done with a query or something? I know nothing of PHP, so any help would be greatly appreciated.