Re: How to make it case sensitive?
| From: | Jason Stechschulte | Date: | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:28:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to make it case sensitive? | ||
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:02:14PM +0100, Denny Suvanto wrote:
> The script is just fine until I notice that the
> username is case insensitive. So, if a member has a
> username "andy" he can log in using
> "andy", "Andy", "aNdY", "andY", and so on. I also
> notice that I can't enter a new member with username
> "Andy", "anDY", and so on as they will duplicate the
> existing "andy". Is this the natural behaviour of
> MySQL or is there anyway to make it case sensitive?
> I'm using PHP 4.0.6 & MySQL 3.23.39.
You have to make the column case sensitive, binary will accomplish this.
Something like:
username varchar(20) binary
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Jason Stechschulte
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