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Guest0321

08-13-2001 09:10 AM

PROBLEM:
I have a forum that unregistered users can post in. Although some choose to change their "guest" name to something other than "Unregistered", most don't, and on busy threads, confusion occurs.

SOLUTION:
In the newreply and newthread files, instead of assigning "Unregistered" to the username of posters who aren't signed in, use "Unregistered" plus a 4 digit random number. This new username doesn't need to be cookied to a user, its just to keep each post unique for reference.

I'm working on this myself, and I think its just required in newreply and newthread, but if someone already has something like this, please post it here.

Admin

08-13-2001 09:36 AM

Nice idea, and very simple to execute. :)

In sessions.php, under your admin folder, find

PHP Code:


		
			
$bbuserinfo['username']=iif ($loginusername=="","Unregistered",htmlspecialchars($loginusername));

Now. You have basically two options. One is to remove the Unregistered at all, so people will HAVE to enter a new username. If you want this, replace the above line with

PHP Code:


		
			
$bbuserinfo['username']=iif ($loginusername=="","",htmlspecialchars($loginusername));

and that's it.

If you still want to do the random number thing, you will need to replace

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($session['userid']==0) {

  $bbuserinfo = $session;

  $bbuserinfo['userid'] = 0;

  $bbuserinfo['username']=iif ($loginusername=="","Unregistered",htmlspecialchars($loginusername));

with

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($session['userid']==0) {

  $unreg = Unregistered;

  $unreg .= rand (1000,9999);

  $bbuserinfo = $session;

  $bbuserinfo['userid'] = 0;

  $bbuserinfo['username']=iif ($loginusername=="","$unreg",htmlspecialchars($loginusername));

Guest0321

08-13-2001 11:41 AM

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Thanks, that will be useful, I think instead of random numbers, I'm going to give them a random pleasant name, the code kind of looks like the attached.

EDIT: Actually, I think I'm going to use the Captain Underpants names, which should give me over 17,000 possibilities. See attached for sample code.

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