From 9230b559db05df6c7dac0476940f12fcc36559f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:24:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Forward port mysql 5.1 16 character username limit difference --- common.inc.bootstrap.php | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/common.inc.bootstrap.php b/common.inc.bootstrap.php index d741f8ab..5a9cf137 100644 --- a/common.inc.bootstrap.php +++ b/common.inc.bootstrap.php @@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ else { echo ""; 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 "SFIAB ERROR";