Use case-insensative usernames. IE This and tHIS are both valid.

[lyndonb]

Hi.

I want to use case insensative usernames on my forums, so 2 usernames can have the same characters with different cases, and this be valid on the forums.

This is because of integration with a legacy system. Does anyone have any idea of where to start?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Lyndon

[Eikinskjaldi]

You meant case sensitive, not case insensitive.

If you want case sensitivity, you should modify the username column of the user table in the database to a case sensitive collation. I have absolutely no idea what changes, if any, would be needed in vb itself.

[lyndonb]

yes, I do mean case.

Any other possible tips?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I doubt this can be done, it would probably break a lot of functionality in vBulletin as there are many queries executed that rely on the fact that the username is case-insensitive.