Did a large search but no answer to be found on this 1 question...

"When people register they have to choose a unique name otherwise they cannot register. But when a Guest wants to make a post he can choose a name that is already registered..  very confusing!"

What can I do to prefend this?

Thanks.

Ps. Great job on reopening this supportforum!!

michael wrote: You could manually set a prefix to Guest names like ...= "anon:" & strGuesName or something like that. It is indeed a problem but there is not too much you can do if you allow guest posting. Maybe it has been changed somehow in a newer release???

Hello Michael,

Thanks for the reply. I asked TheKiwi on his site the same question and he came up with this;

"OK Doesnt look too hard to implement.

• You need to edit post_message.asp
• At about line 306 there is the text
  

  Code: 'If the user is in a guest then clean up their username to remove malicious code If lngLoggedInUserID = 2 Then     strGuestName = formatSQLInput(strGuestName)     strGuestName = formatInput(strGuestName) End If

• Basically in this block you need to call a function which does a check for a used username
• If you find a name exists, then do something like strReturnCode="UNameE"
• THen in the file not_posted.asp, at approx Line 100, you need to add in
  

  Code: ElseIf strErrorCode = "UNameE" Then     Response.Write("That Username already exists in the database")

  "

You should know that I'm no way an ASP writer nor programmer. I can edit it a little. These kind of things someone has to build for me

The forum I'm moderating is an 18+ forum and we do allow anonymous posting in one section of this forum. The problem is that you can choose a name which is already registered by someone else  and that's sometimes confusing....

So,  Help!

I realize the problem you run into with that but if you have a large forum, common usernames may be gone already and how often do you want to prompt a user that the name is gone when just doing a post?

I would consider a different solution where it is easily identifiable that it is a guest post even if the name is one of a registered user.

could use the code above that inserts the perfix and have

for example "username_Guest"

Scotty_32 wrote: could use the code above that inserts the perfix and have for example "username_Guest"

I do need some help with this because I'm no programmer or ASP writer. If someone could come up with a working code it would be very appriciated

Is there realy nobody who is able to help me on this?

The problem is that there's no other place or forum to put this question and I think the solution could help many now and in the future.

try line 622 (or near it, it may be an old copy i looked at)

and look for this line

If NOT rsTopic.EOF Then strUsername = rsTopic("Name")

just add to the end like this:

If NOT rsTopic.EOF Then strUsername = rsTopic("Name") & "_Guest"

and this SHOULD put guests posts so its username_Guest

if this doesnt work, post back and i'll have a proper look when i can

Scotty_32 wrote: try line 622 (or near it, it may be an old copy i looked at) and look for this line If NOT rsTopic.EOF Then strUsername = rsTopic("Name") just add to the end like this: If NOT rsTopic.EOF Then strUsername = rsTopic("Name") & "_Guest" and this SHOULD put guests posts so its username_Guest if this doesnt work, post back and i'll have a proper look when i can

In witch ASP file do I look, it's not in the post_message.asp.

my bad, am sorry i completely forgot

its the "forum_posts.asp" file in the main folder

Scotty_32 wrote: my bad, am sorry i completely forgot its the "forum_posts.asp" file in the main folder

Works for me!

Great job!

It would be great if in the future a mod would be made so that there's a check on the uniquenes of the names used by a guest.

i dont think stopping guests using usernames is good

becose on my site i only allow guest posting in 1 forum so they can get help if they cant log in or have any problems

so the "_Guest" i think would be best

and you can see there a "guest" user anyway so it doesnt really matter in my opinion

You're right!

And because they all get, in my Dutch forum, "-Gast" they do not have a unique name. To get that the need to register  . We will leave it like it is now