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Advice for Username when using Membership API

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Forum Name: Web Wiz Forums Modifications
Forum Description: Mod's and Add-on's for Web Wiz Forums.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=23096
Printed Date: 30 March 2026 at 5:57am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: Advice for Username when using Membership API

Posted By: brianmisty
Subject: Advice for Username when using Membership API
Date Posted: 11 April 2007 at 1:58pm

I am setting up a WW forum for an organization with six thousand members using the Membership API to link into our current database of membership. I am trying to decide what to use for the username field in WW.

Our member database uses a unique member ID field as the identifier. It seems logical to pass this number into the WW as the username, but I do not want to expose the membership #'s for security reasons, nor do I want the username to be a number. Another option is to pass the First and Last Name (e.g. JohnDoe), which seems ideal, but we a have ton of users with the same name, therefore this could never be truly unique. Lastly, I am also considering allowing them to create a username (on my end) before they can access the forum.

I do not need help with the implementation, just advice on anything I may be overlooking.

Thanks,

Brian