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Bugs / Double Usernames?
« on: January 08, 2008, 05:30:35 pm »
Hello! Let me say great job on the mods! I love the shop and the many features people here have been able to create! In my toying around with the shop, however, I think I may have found a possible bug.
I'm trying to make my own change display name item that changes the username, display name, and another name I have in a linked database for a game. On my site the three are linked, so it is imperative that a user has all 3 changed. Everything works smoothly with the item, but I think I may have found a problem with the change username item. The problem is that it doesn't seem that the username checks to see if a user name is already in use. As a result, you end up getting duplicate usernames...which sounds like a problem to me. This problem occurs both in the original smf shop change username item as well as my customized item. I believe smf checks against this and doesn't allow it, so I'm assuming it is unintended for the SMF shop to have this "repeated username feature". Is this a bug that I have stumbled upon? How would one go about fixing this?
I would imagine you could look up the database to see if the name already exists, but I'm a newb at php and don't know how exactly one would go about doing that....
I'm trying to make my own change display name item that changes the username, display name, and another name I have in a linked database for a game. On my site the three are linked, so it is imperative that a user has all 3 changed. Everything works smoothly with the item, but I think I may have found a problem with the change username item. The problem is that it doesn't seem that the username checks to see if a user name is already in use. As a result, you end up getting duplicate usernames...which sounds like a problem to me. This problem occurs both in the original smf shop change username item as well as my customized item. I believe smf checks against this and doesn't allow it, so I'm assuming it is unintended for the SMF shop to have this "repeated username feature". Is this a bug that I have stumbled upon? How would one go about fixing this?
I would imagine you could look up the database to see if the name already exists, but I'm a newb at php and don't know how exactly one would go about doing that....