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Topic: not sure how to edit nicknames.

Posted By: thedave
Subject: not sure how to edit nicknames.
Date Posted: 04 July 2003 at 6:46am

hi ive search other topics for this problem already and i found 2 reults but none of them explain exactly what i must do.

a friend of mine wants to change his nickname to another, and i know i must edit the tblauthor in the database to edit his nickname, do i need to edit the user_code aswell as the user name. the user code field contains his nickalso but with lots of code after it.

any help would be great.

thx

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ello?!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 July 2003 at 7:24am

No, just the username field needs to be changed.

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 04 July 2003 at 7:30am

don't quote me on this ....

i dont think you need to change the usercode as i dont think the security goes that far (check the first xx of the user_code against the username).....

the user code is used to on the users computer it is put into a cookie and when the user comes to a page on the forum it gets the usercode from the users machine and looks for the user_code that matchs and then gets the relvent details.

if you changed the username the user_code should still work but the user wouldn't know his username has been changed untill he sees it on the forum... . as he wouldn't of logged in......

so no you dont have to change it....

any probbs ..reply back....

Posted By: thedave
Date Posted: 04 July 2003 at 8:18am

its seems to have worked ok, thanks.

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