import vbulletin usernames as lower-case?

Discussion in 'Integration' started by JamesAB, Jul 10, 2005.

  1. JamesAB

    JamesAB New Member

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    I am importing 1500+ users from my vBulletin forum into aMember. I've come up with a solution for the password problem. Now I'm not sure how to deal with the fact that many vBulletin usernames use upper & lower-case letters. For example: JamesAB

    vBulletin let's you create a membership with both upper & lower-case characters, but the login proccess seems to ignore the case of the letters in the username.

    Should I import my list of usernames "as is"?
    Should I import my list of usernames converted to all lower-case characters?

    If I import it "as is", it seems like there could be confusion, because aMember would think "Joe" and "joe" are two different usernames.

    If i convert all the usernames to lowercase before importing them, then I would need to tell users not to use upper-case letters when logging in. Or better yet, would it be advisable to change the aMember login to automatically convert whatever people enter as a username to lower-case letters before it compares the username to all the usernames in the aMember database?

    I'm curious how other people have handled this. I would like to know if anyone has any ideas or suggestions.

    Thanks,
    James
  2. alex

    alex aMember Pro Customer Staff Member

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    James, just import usernames as is.

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