[ic] problems with mixed case usernames

Eros Shop info at eros-shop.co.uk
Sun Apr 11 04:15:08 EDT 2004


At 08:32 11/04/2004, you wrote:
>Ron Phipps [rphipps at reliant-solutions.com] wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems that a lot of my users/customers are forgetful when it
> > > > > comes to their login details and despite the provision of a means
> > > > > to retrieve their logon details by email they tend to opt for
> > > > > creating a new account.
> > > > >
> > > > > After a bit of investigation, it appears that this all boils down
> > > > > to the case of the letters in the username. IC appears to see
> > > > > "Mark" and "mark" as different when it comes to username/account
> > > > > creation and I wondered if it was possible to make the process case
> > > > > insensitive or forced lowercase?
> > > > >
> > Try changing this:
> >
> > [if type=explicit compare="[userdb new_account]"]
> >
> > to this:
> >
> > [if type=explicit compare="[userdb function=new_account ignore_case=1]"]
> >
>Or, to default to ignore_case, add the following into catalog.cfg:
>
>     UserDB default ignore_case 1

Kevin!!! You're a star!!

that fixed everything :)))

Many thanks

Mark



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