Validate Username

[columbo1977]

Hi

Can anyone help. Attached is the registration form from a site I am building, the form is validated and the passwords are checked but I now need to check to make sure no-one enters the same username in the database.

Can anyone tell me how, as you can see from the function validuser() I have already been trying to do this.

Site has been built with PHP and MySQL.

Click on the link below for the registration form.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=B9E13F41321AA4B9

Thanks

Columbo1977

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You would need to ask this in the PHP and/or MySQL forums, as it would be a server-side check.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[columbo1977]

Ok thanks, I have posted it in the right forum? i thought it was a javascript function.

Cheers

Columbo1977

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

No. As I've just said, you would do this server-side.

Dan



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[trollacious]

You can do this with Javascript if you wish to allow everyone who visits the site to see all the user IDs in your database. Otherwise, you need to handle it server side, like BRPS said.

Lee