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Is it possible to change the default length of a username? If so, how would I do it?

Thanks.

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Arthur (http://www.shrednow.com)

The limit is 16 characters, defined by the database (field 'username' in table 'gl_users'), so you would need to change that and all the forms where you can enter a username ...

bye, Dirk

In layout/your_theme/admin/user/edituser.thtml, layout/your_theme/users/registrationform.thtml, layout/your_theme/preferences/username.thtml, and layout/your_theme/users/getpasswordform.thtml: you should see a line like the following:



The size="16" tells the box to only accept the first 16 characters of the username. You can make this bigger in all of these places, but you first have to make sure that the appropriate column in the database can accept strings that are that long. Depending on how long you want usernames to be, you may have to edit the attributes of the appropriate GeekLog database table.

[EDIT: Dirk beat me to the punch!]

Thanks for your quick advice. Your suggestions allowed me to expand the maximum length.

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Arthur (http://www.shrednow.com)