Username Checker

When the user clicks the register link their taken to a page where they only enter their username. When they push submit it checks the username, if taken it allows them to keep entering usernames until one that is not taken is found. Registration now resumes as normal. When they reach the signup form the username is already in the Username part of the form.

Request from nighteyes.

Last Updated 2nd November 2001 at 17:00 GMT

[afterlab]

Great hack, worked and installed w/ out a problem! Great idea.

BTW: I am on a 2.03 and it worked on my version.

[Scott MacVicar]

afterlab i forgot to mention in the readme you got,

open register.php
looks for

if ((!isset($action) or $action=="") and (!isset($a) or $a=="")) {
$action="signup";
}

change to

if ((!isset($action) or $action=="") and (!isset($a) or $a=="")) {
$action="check";
}

sorry about that.

now i gotta go give me kitten some sedatives, stupid fireworks

[afterlab]

Ok thanks for the heads up, I changed it. Still working fine.

[Dark Blaze]

Awsome hack

Exactly what I needed for my forum's users.

I'm going to install it very soon indeed.

[Jawelin]

Thanks for your work.

Excuse, is there any SS anywhere ?

I'm first interested in the behavior of original registration page: if I'd check the username in a previous page and only fill the field in the new one, but that field is still editable, I think that feature could be easly overcome.

Understand, I didn't installed the hack yet, but simply would investigate the option to make all the check on the same page, even the username dupe checker...
Besides, could I extend this feature to AdminCP user editing ? I didn't installed your UserCP username self-change, and would make the same dupe-checks within admin/user.php cation=edit...
What do you think about ?

Thanks a lot.

[Jawelin]

Sorry but don't understand: in v2.2.x already exists a template displayed when the "username is in use" ...

Anyway is still possible change via AdminCP the username and make it identical to other one ...

Thnx

[Scott MacVicar]

instead of filling out the entire form, then clicking submit and then getting a username in use error and having to go back and enter it all again.

This simply asks what username you want checks it, if its not in use you get taken to the usualy register form.

[Jawelin]

Ah, ok. Thanks and sorry for the stupid question.

[Shenlong]

seems like its working good, im happy