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Username length?

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Topic: Username length?

Posted By: MrMellie
Subject: Username length?
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 7:37pm

What is the mximum amount of characters in a the Username supposed to be? The Access and SQL db's have a 30 character field yet most of the form fields only seem to accept 15 chars. :confused:

I've got a user who can't reset his password due to his imported username being 16 chars. I'll get him to choose a new ID and rename it, but would like to know for future reference.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 8:51am

It's 15 characters and the db field excepts more incase any of the characters as HTML encoded which would increase the character length.

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Posted By: MrMellie
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 10:54am

Ok, cool thanks Bruce.

Posted By: diaperpin
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:44pm

Hey Bruce,

Are there any plans to change it so you allow more than 15 characters - at least in the login screen (not in the registration screen). I have the same issue as MrMellie in that I imported 6,000+ members from Snitz Forums and have long user names.

Of course it is easy to make this change to allow this but I want to reduce the number of mods I am making for future upgrades.

Just so you know, transfered my forums 2 weeks ago and love it. It's much faster that our previous forums - I was experiencing many bandwidth problems. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for considering this my request.

Jen

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:59pm

It is something that will be looked into

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Posted By: diaperpin
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:35pm

Great. Thanks!