how i can change the user id

[meCOOL]

hi

i want to know how i can change the user id becouse i have a user have id 2 and he dont join my forum from 6 month or more and i want to give it to anther one

i try to change it from the database in userid but he change the name also

so if someone know it i hope he will help me

[filburt1]

It's doable but can cause more problems than it will fix. I wouldn't recommend doing it.

note to hackers: I'm referring to dropping the auto_increment and then readding it

[Chris Gwynne]

Heh, I remember when I wanted to do this. It's a looong process and it'll most likely mess up like filburt said ... NOT recommended.

[DrkFusion]

Isn't there a query, that will reorganize the auto_increment?

For instance, few days ago in userids, I had only 2 members on a test board, but every new user had a userid of 20022+. I am not even sure what I did, but it reorganized the autoincrement, and made it start from the latest smallest figure, but this required me to delete new entries.

[filburt1]

That's what I'm talking about but every other table will be completely screwed up with the new userid associations. There's no reason to fill in the gaps.

[Erwin]

Instead of changing userid, just change username and password. Then, use the "ezboard" hack released here to associate the username to the other username's posts. It works.

[meCOOL]

i try it but its not working

i do everything but the script change the name but the posts still the same