[bob121]

How can you check that the name entered is in the correct case, Because on my game if you enter say james on the game when sending an email and the real username is James, that works fine, but once you go into a if($____ == $_____) command the == Checks if it's exact, It causes problems when people enter the incorrect case, is there a way where it checks the case, and if the case is incorrect it shows an error message.

Thanks James.

[tomdkat]

If you're coding in PHP, the strcasemp() function will be of use to you. You can replace

if ($var1==$var2)

with

if (strcasecmp($var1,$var2))

of

if (strcasecmp($var1,$var2) != 0)

Peace...

[bob121]

This check only seems to work if they are all different, The usernames are usally mixed case which are causing the problems.

Thanks James.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by bob121

This check only seems to work if they are all different, The usernames are usally mixed case which are causing the problems.

Did you try using strcasecmp()? It does exactly what you're looking for.

Here is the sample code from the link I posted above:

<?php
$var1 = "Hello";
$var2 = "hello";
if (strcasecmp($var1, $var2) == 0) {
    echo '$var1 is equal to $var2 in a case-insensitive string comparison';
}
?>

You can run that code here.

In the sample code above, the only difference between the two strings is the case of 'h'.

I'm not sure I follow what this function does *not* do for you. What am I missing here?

Peace...

[bob121]

Well that shouldnt work if it what i want ... The H is a different case, I want it to allow no different case's

[tomdkat]

Ok, then you can use the ctype_upper() function to test if a string is all upper case or the ctype_lower() function to test if a string is all lower case.

So, if you want to enforce all lower case values only (for example), you would do something like this:

if (ctype_lower($var) == False) {
// report an invalid case error of some kind;
}

If you want to enforce a particular character as being upper case or lower case, use the substr() function to get that particular character and then pass that to ctype_upper() or ctype_lower(), something like this:

$var = "James";
$firstChar = substr($var,0,1);
if (ctype_lower($firstChar) == False) {
// report invalid case detected error of some kind
}

So, what are you wanting to implement as your policy for name's entered in your game? All lower case? All upper case? First character upper case only? Something else?

Peace...

[bob121]

I've made something which does exactly what i want it too

$user=$_POST['username'];
if($user){
$checkinit2 = mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$user'"));
$user2 = $checkinit2->username;
if($user !== $user2){
echo" Incorrect Case ";
}else{
echo" Correct Case ";
}

}

Thanks All You're Help !

[tomdkat]

Great! Glad you got it sorted out.

Peace...