function profile_link($user_id, $user_name, $user_status, $class = "profile-link") {

      $result1 = dbquery("SELECT user_groups FROM ".DB_USERS." WHERE `user_id` = '".$user_id."'");

      $usergroups = "";

      while ($data1 = dbarray($result1)) {

      $usergroups = $data1['user_groups'];

      }

      $newestgroup = "";

      $usergroupspieces = explode(".", $usergroups);

      if($usergroups)

      $newestgroup = $usergroupspieces[1];

      else

      $newestgroup = "";

      $result2 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".DB_PREFIX."html_names WHERE `htmlname_usergroup` = '".$newestgroup."'");

      $html1 = "";

      $html2 = "";

      while ($data2 = dbarray($result2)) {

      $html1 = html_entity_decode($data2['htmlname_html']);

      $html2 = html_entity_decode($data2['htmlname_html2']);

      }

   global $locale, $settings;

 

   $class = ($class ? " class='$class'" : "");

 

   if ((in_array($user_status, array(0, 3, 7)) || checkrights("M")) && (iMEMBER || $settings['hide_userprofiles'] == "0")) {

      $link = "<a href='".BASEDIR."profile.php?lookup=".$user_id."'".$class.">".$html1.$user_name.$html2."";

     } elseif ($user_status == "5" || $user_status == "6") {

      $link = $locale['user_anonymous'];

   } else {

      $link = $user_name;

   }

 

   return $link;

}

 

.$html1.$user_name.$html2."</a>";