Duplicate nicknames?

How to disable unique for nickname and allow duplicate nicknames?

Thank You.

go to admin panel / builders/ fields builder -> click on JOIN FORM -> Find the field "NICKNAMES" -> click on it -> click on the second tab "ADVANCED" -> unclick UNIQUE .

you're done :) 

This worked for me, but when i wanted to add second person with the same nickname I get database error message. Any ideas?

Michal

You are forgetting so many things. You can't make the usernames unique in such easy way. Or else so many things would stop working.

For example, profiles open with URI www.site.com/NickName

Now what if you have two users with same NickName? Whose profile gonna open???

This is just one example. So many other troubles would come.

To make them unique, much code modification is required.

Myspace idea is to take data before @ as a nickname and create user pages named with it (containing their real names) and identified by this nickname all over the site.

Facebook got numeric system and the can be duplicate name and surname like: 74943343/user-name/ and everywhere users with similar data are identyfied by this address - database recognize user by this numbers generated by systems, that's why they're never duplicated and their values like name-surname can be duplicated as it's not in the main database category.

These are ideas for good mod or even Dolphin 7, there is lot's of pages with nicknames but only few with name and surname, also time for more privacy for users like profile not visible until you're his/her friend! Teamwork guys!

So not impossible! ;)