XF 1.4 Getting Username URL Bit

[SurferJon]

Hi, this is my URL on these forums:
https://xenforo.com/community/members/surferjon.61509/

On my forums, how would I get just the "surferjon.61509" bit into a forum template? I need it for a custom link.

 

[Jeremy]

What template are you attempting to add this two? Do you have a user ID available in the data? Do you have the user name available in the data?

 

[SurferJon]

I'm adding it to the navbar. I'm not sure if the user ID is available there - I think it isn't. Thank you for the swift response!

 

[Jeremy]

If you are adding it for the current visitor:

<xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id}"><a href="{xen:link members, $visitor}">Your Profile</a></xen:if>

That shoudl work.

 

[SurferJon]

Oh that linked to the whole profile URL rather than just the username-ID bit. I'm trying to get a URL like this:
www.website.com/forum?trade/surferjon.61509

 

[Jeremy]

Change members to trade.

 

[SurferJon]

Hm, when I hover over the link, I just get:
www.website.com/forum?trade

 

[Jeremy]

I'm assuming this is an add-on or custom add-on and you should be contacting the author for more support. You can manually create the link using just the $visitor.user_id variable, but without the route class building the link, you may get unexpected results.

 

[SurferJon]

That sort of worked? I did this:
<a href="{xen:link trade, '', 'user_id={$visitor.username}'}"> Trade Reps Received</a>
But it has an extra "user_id=" in the URL and the username isn't formatted correctly.