Parent comment’s author display_name

Parent comment’s author name

I found this code and would like to modify it as follows: if someone changes the display_name, the name in the comments should also change.
I was able to achieve this with the following code in the comments:

$usermeta = get_userdata($comment->user_id);

<?php echo $usermeta->display_name?>

However, I don’t know how to change the code below to show display_name here as well.

if( $comment->comment_parent )
comment_author( $comment->comment_parent );

I appreciate any help.

Answers:

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Method 1

So to do the same thing but for the parent comment this should do it. This is untested but does the same thing as your first case, but with the parent comment object instead of the current comment.

if( $comment->comment_parent ) {
    $parentComment = get_comment($comment->parent);
    $usermeta = get_userdata($parentComment->user_id);
    echo $usermeta->display_name ; 
}

Does that do it?

Method 2

Oh, I got it!

if( $comment->comment_parent ) {
    $parent_ID = $comment->comment_parent;
    $parent_comment = get_comment($parent_ID);
    $parent_usermeta = get_userdata($parent_comment->user_id);
    echo $parent_usermeta->display_name; }

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