Why duplicate the data?

Why not just put a Foreign Key to the Directory table in the login table and
when doing the login check whether there is a fullname that when lower-cased
and with spaces removed is the same (and then use the password)...?  That
way, if the user changes their "fullname" then you won't have to mess around
with updating a second table with the data (unless that is the Primary Key
in the Directory table and therefore the Foreign Key in the login table).

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Westbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 17 September 2003 10:44
> To: cfug dev list
> Subject: [ cf-dev ] removing spaces
> 
> 
> Hi
> I've got a table, Directory, with a field 'fullname', 
> containing strings like 'Harlequin Theatre and Cinema'
> 
> I want to copy all the fullnames to a seperate table, login, 
> to allow organisations to log into the CMS and modify their 
> records. For an organisations's username I want to lower-case 
> all the fullnames and remove spaces, such that 
> 
> Harlequin Theatre and Cinema
> 
> becomes
> 
> harlequintheatreandcinema
> 
> Then I'll generate a password for each using the script 
> someone kindly supplied a while back (alphanumeric string, 
> upper- and-lower case)
> 
> I can lower-case no trouble using Lcase, but I'm stumped as 
> to how to remove the spaces.
> 
> can anyone give me a clue?
> 
> ta
> 
> Ian W
>  
> 



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