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    Posted: 23 March 2005 at 10:37pm
Ok i have a problem with Usernames going past 15 charcters. I have edited the Register.asp page and the add_member.asp page in the admin section to go up to 25 charcters.

<input type="text" name="name1" size="25" maxlength="25" value="" />

The problem is that after i subbmit it wit han example beyond 15 charcters; anyhting between 15-25.

Wehn i click on my Members list it shows teh account to only display 15 charcters Maxium. Which is very disapointing. The database allows charter length longer then 15 char's so i have no problem there.


What do i need to change to make it display the Full Username.
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When the form entry is read in in the regsiter.asp file a 'Trim' is run on the entry to reduce it down to 15 characters.
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Is there anyway to get around it or to change it from only reading 15 charters?
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Yes change the amount the input is Trimmed by that I metioned in my last post.
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I see. So it trims the length to 15 charcters. So if someone were to register with something longer the n15 charcters it would be trimmed no matter what down to 15 charters before entering the database.

How would i go about editing this trimming factor. I lookd in the common.asp file and found nothing. Which files will i need to edit, and if possibley what lines of code are they located in?


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Nevermind i found the Trim string.

Thanks for the help.

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Make sure you remember to change the maxlength and trim in all the other pages that it exists in as well, such as the private messanger pages and the pop up search for username page,etc 
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Don't forget to change the size of the field in the database as well.
The db field size is longer than 15 characters because the update routine replaces characters that could be used for sql injection attacks (e.g. ', [, ", etc.) with their decimal equivalents. You need to have extra space in the db field to hold those replacement characters.

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