Unique name as "guest"?

Did a large search but no answer to be found on this 1 question...

"When people register they have to choose a unique name otherwise they cannot register. But when a Guest wants to make a post he can choose a name that is already registered..  very confusing!"

What can I do to prefend this?

Thanks.

 

Ps. Great job on reopening this supportforum!!

michael wrote: You could manually set a prefix to Guest names like ...= "anon:" & strGuesName or something like that. It is indeed a problem but there is not too much you can do if you allow guest posting. Maybe it has been changed somehow in a newer release???

Hello Michael,

Thanks for the reply. I asked TheKiwi on his site the same question and he came up with this;

"OK Doesnt look too hard to implement.

• You need to edit post_message.asp
• At about line 306 there is the text
  

  Code: 'If the user is in a guest then clean up their username to remove malicious code If lngLoggedInUserID = 2 Then     strGuestName = formatSQLInput(strGuestName)     strGuestName = formatInput(strGuestName) End If

• Basically in this block you need to call a function which does a check for a used username
• If you find a name exists, then do something like strReturnCode="UNameE"
• THen in the file not_posted.asp, at approx Line 100, you need to add in
  

  Code: ElseIf strErrorCode = "UNameE" Then     Response.Write("That Username already exists in the database")

  "

You should know that I'm no way an ASP writer nor programmer. I can edit it a little. These kind of things someone has to build for me

The forum I'm moderating is an 18+ forum and we do allow anonymous posting in one section of this forum. The problem is that you can choose a name which is already registered by someone else  and that's sometimes confusing....

So,  Help!

The forum is not that large (yet ) but the problem is that you can post as a guest and the name can be of a registered user. You can tell by the forum statistics that the last post is by "Guests" but when you go to the topic where he/she posted the name can say "Admin", underneeth you can see that it's a guest, also when the avatar is missing, but still. Can I open a topic somewhere else on this forum to ask this question en see if someone already came up with a solution (and where can I open this topic)?

Scotty_32 wrote: could use the code above that inserts the perfix and have for example "username_Guest"

I do need some help with this because I'm no programmer or ASP writer. If someone could come up with a working code it would be very appriciated