Username alternative generation

[stewartship]

Morning All!

I have a MySQL database table for login authentication and i want the PHP script to be able to suggest alternative usernames to the user if their username already exists.

Anybody got some ideas or any reading material?

Many Thanks

[bogu]

stewartship wrote:

I have a MySQL database table for login authentication and i want the PHP script to be able to suggest alternative usernames to the user if their username already exists.

This algorithm depends only by u and how u want it to be ...

If someone choose 'abc' and this already exists, u can suggest him 'abc1' (of course u check if 'abc1' is not in DB if it is u suggest him 'abc2' and so on), as I said it depends only by u how the suggest username should look like ...