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Topic: Database modification

Posted By: swrdfghtr
Subject: Database modification
Date Posted: 21 July 2006 at 4:53pm

I'm integrating my forums' authentication with an external member database; it's working quite well thanks to the various posts, here, on the subject.

However, the external database allows up to 100 characters for the username, while the forums' Authors table permits only 25.

Off the top of your head (anyone), is there any danger in simply modifying the Authors table schema to make the username 100 chars rather than 25?

Thank you for any insight!
Don

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 11:14am

It should work fine doing this if you are using the existing member API, but it's worth testing to make sure as you may have a few problems like when searching for members using the search system.

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