Username Exists

[Bytescanada]

I am slowly converting over my hosting script to use cpanels xmlapi, but I was wondering if it is possible when somebody signs up they are able to check if a username exists. I have been searching for hours with little luck. Might not be seaching for the right thing. Anybody have any ideas or guidance that can be provided.

Thanks

[cPanelDavidG]

I am slowly converting over my hosting script to use cpanels xmlapi, but I was wondering if it is possible when somebody signs up they are able to check if a username exists. I have been searching for hours with little luck. Might not be seaching for the right thing. Anybody have any ideas or guidance that can be provided.

Thanks

One way you can do this is search for that user's username using the listaccts function. There's some documentation on how to do this at:

http://twiki.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/vi...n/ListAccounts

Alternatively, you could attempt to create the account and when an error comes back indicating the username already exists, prompt your customer for a different username and try again.

[Bytescanada]

k, thanks cPanelDavidG. Now just to learn Javascript or Ajax to have this work the way I need it to and figure how out to output the xml code.

[stoo2000]

This (PHP) function cycles through the existing usernames and comes up with the next unique one, built from the customers first name and surname.

It returns the username once it's found one.

function workout_user($fname, $sname)
	{
		$fname = substr($fname, 0, 4);
		$lim = 9 - strlen($fname);
		for($i = 0; $i <= $lim; $i++ )
		{
			if (array_key_exists('user', $this->list_accounts('user', $fname . substr($sname, 0, $i))->acct))
			{
				continue;
			}
			else
			{
				return strtolower($fname .  substr($sname, 0, $i));
				break;
			}
		}
	}

$this->list_accounts is the result of... '/xml-api/listaccts?searchtype=$arg1&search=$arg2' - $argx are from the function call above. (passed thru simplexml_load_string(); )