[geeklog-devel] Facebook usernames

[cordiste]

> Does that sound find with everyone using someone's full name as their login
name for Facebook?

Is the full name a public data? If yes I guess we can use it and we
can let the users change their user's name.

Ben

2011/4/30 Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net>:
> I was going to check LinkedIn,  thanks.
>
> At first I thought no spaces as well but we do allow spaces in a username
> for a normal Geeklog Account.
>
> Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Dirk Haun
> Sent: April-30-11 8:59 AM
> To: Geeklog Development
> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Facebook usernames
>
> Tom wrote:
>
>> I am not liking all the numbers either. The OAuth class actually
>> already uses USER_uniqueUsername so I just have to change one line in
>> the Facebook class to use Full Name instead of the Facebook ID for the
>> Geeklog login name. If a dup is found it should then call on
>> USER_uniqueUsername to solve the problem.
>
> Almost the same problem with LinkedIn, btw. It's not a number but a
> random-looking string. Not memorable at all.
>
>
>> Does that sound find with everyone using someone's full name as their
>> login name for Facebook?
>
> I'd say a username shouldn't have spaces in it. Which is how I implemented
> it for LinkedIn now:
>
> http://project.geeklog.net/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/geeklog/rev/0813a4eb4c7c
>
> bye, Dirk
>
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