Max Lenght of UserName field?

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Topic: Max Lenght of UserName field?

Posted By: Gleedo
Subject: Max Lenght of UserName field?
Date Posted: 30 October 2007 at 1:12pm

Hello WWF land

I have just been setting up our forum hosted by your good selfs, but am getting reports of a few people not being able to register.

Its rather odd. One members username is normaly [PSI]Necromancer (16 chars) but i can only get it to accept [PSI]Necromance (15).

But, i have another registered user called {DMF}MissConduct (16 chars) and some even logner.

I'm a tad confused

Any ideas appreciated

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Posted By: Gleedo
Date Posted: 11 November 2007 at 10:53am

Ok, this problem is starting to cause some issues.

I have had complaints from a number of people saying they cant register.

I have checked the database field for this and it says it can be 25 characters long.

The latest person who tried to join was trying to have a username of [PSI]FrankTheBunny, but that failed. I had to register the account for him, but only by shortening it to FrankTheBunny.

Other people MUST also be seeing this problem...Any ideas anyone

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 November 2007 at 12:22pm

Usernames in Web Wiz Forums have always been limited to 15 characters long. The database field allows up to 25 to allow enough space for HTML character encoding.

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Posted By: Gleedo
Date Posted: 11 November 2007 at 4:45pm

But you can physicaly type 20 characters into the username textbox input field?

So [PSI]FrankTheBunny should be accepted

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 10:06am

Sorry my mistake, version 9 allows 20 characters for usernames.

I have just tested this with version 9 using the username [PSI]FrankTheBunny and was able to register an account in this name and login and logout using the same username.

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Posted By: Gleedo
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 11:29am

-boRg- wrote:

Sorry my mistake, version 9 allows 20 characters for usernames.

I have just tested this with version 9 using the username [PSI]FrankTheBunny and was able to register an account in this name and login and logout using the same username.

Dammit!

Now i'm really confused

i couldnt register it even via the admin pages....i'll continue hunting down the problem.

FTIW he was trying to use firefox and i was using IE 7 and we both had the same problem, so i know its defo not a browser issue.

thanks for trying to help borg

Posted By: Gleedo
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 12:07pm

Well i have tried to register that name from a number of different machines running different browsers and on each one i get the following error:

The website cannot display the page

HTTP 500

Most likely causes:

The website is under maintenance.
The website has a programming error.

What you can try:

javascript:clickRefresh%28%29 - Refresh the page.

javascript:history.back%28%29; - Go back to the previous page.

res://ieframe.dll/http_500.htm#"> javascript:expandCollapse%28infoBlockID,%20true%29; - More information

Could you please try it from where you are borg? Our website address is http://www.EliteSniperCorps.com - www.EliteSniperCorps.com . This site is hosted with WebWiz :)

Posted By: true_king
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 12:38pm

i found a bug on this. if a account created 20 char length. if you want to add him as buddy, you can add him cause in buddy add textbox the name not fit. why this happen? how to increase the size of textbox to 20 in buddy ad?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 2:05pm

The first one you mention the 500 internal server error look like an issue with mySQL if the username is above 15 characters and contains [ and ].

The second issue you mention, I've had a look at your forum and could add buddies to the buddy list that contained 16 characters. The textbox itself to add new buddies to your buddy list allows 25 characters.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 2:22pm

Have found the issue, the characters [PSI] are encoded by the page encoding and become:-

[PSI]

This then means that the field in the database can not hold anything above 16 chacaters for a username that contains [PSI]

Your database on your hosting account has been altered to allow 35 characters to try and resolve this issue for you.

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Posted By: Gleedo
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 5:38pm

-boRg- wrote:

Have found the issue, the characters [PSI] are encoded by the page encoding and become:-

[PSI]

This then means that the field in the database can not hold anything above 16 chacaters for a username that contains [PSI]

Your database on your hosting account has been altered to allow 35 characters to try and resolve this issue for you.

Awesome, thankyou Borg, you are a legend my friend