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Add a fix for new MySQL 5.1 where it doesnt truncate at 16 characters before comparing, so all our long usernames were failing (mysql internally only supports 16 characters)

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james 2010-12-30 13:56:50 +00:00
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@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ else
exit;
}
/*
difference between MySQL <5.1 and 5.1:
in <5.1 in must have internall truncated it at 16 before comparing with the hard-coded 16 character database limit
in 5.1 it doesnt truncate and compares the full string with the hardcoded 16 character limit, so all our very long usernames
are now failing
James - Dec 30 2010
*/
$DBUSER=substr($DBUSER,0,16);
if(!mysql_connect($DBHOST,$DBUSER,$DBPASS))
{
echo "<html><head><title>SFIAB ERROR</title></head><body>";