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Create a username using Full Name

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Takes a full string of a username - "Jack Bourne" and returns "jackbourne"

Parameters are $original (full name) and $passno (identification number etc)

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  1. function convert_to_username($original, $passno) {
  2. 	$xname = explode('A/L', $original);
  3. 	$xname2 = explode('A/P', $xname[0]);
  4. 	$xname3 = explode('BIN', $xname2[0]);
  5. 	$xname4 = explode('@', $xname3[0]);
  6.  
  7. 	$uname = str_replace(' ', '', $xname4[0]);	
  8. 	$uname = str_replace(',', '', $uname);
  9. 	$uname = str_replace('.', '', $uname);
  10. 	$uname = str_replace('-', '', $uname);
  11. 	$uname = str_replace('`', '', $uname);
  12. 	$uname = str_replace('(', '', $uname);
  13. 	$uname = str_replace(')', '', $uname);	
  14. 	$uname = strtolower(str_replace('\'', '', $uname));	
  15. 	$uname = strtolower(str_replace('/', '', $uname));
  16. 	$uname = substr($uname,0,12);
  17.  
  18. 	$passno_strip = substr($passno, 0, 2);
  19.  
  20. 	//check if this username already exist (this is using my library, you have to change this with whatever mysql query u need. this is to check whether the name exists)
  21. 	$check = $sql->selectSQL("COUNT(*) as how_many","admin_login","WHERE uname LIKE '$uname'");
  22.  
  23. 	//if already exist, append passno into the username to avoid duplicate username
  24. 	if ($check > 0) {
  25. 		$uname = substr($uname,0,10);
  26. 		$uname .= $passno_strip;
  27. 	}
  28.  
  29. 	$uname = strtolower($uname); //turn all lowercase
  30.  
  31. 	return $uname;}

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