Re: Functionality to check for duplicate usernames, confirm passwords

On 13/06/2005, at 11:40 PM, Lukas Smith wrote:

> Dan Rossi wrote:
>>
>
> What do you mean? Are you talking about the client here? Multiple 
> passwords for the same user name? Same passwords for multiple users? 
> What do you mean with confirm passwords? Are you talking about a two 
> stage sign up where you have to activate your account through an 
> email?
>
> Elaborate ...
>

Its late here 11:45pm :)


Ok I am building a signup form, where a customer will key in some 
details, and then a username and password.

I have built an auth system in the past which i am trying to phase out 
for liveuser. It does a strcmp for a password and then a confirm 
password, which is just a second password field to make sure they dont 
put in any typos. It also checks for duplicate usernames in the system 
to prevent the unique username db error being thrown :) The user is not 
active until an admin goes into the "Frontend" :) and confirms them, 
when a customer has joined the admin will get an email to confirm them.

Most of this is a frontend issue, but I was wondering if there are 
methods or functionality to do these password checks aswell as a 
duplicate username check to obviouslly prevent the duplicate key 
database errors :)