PHP & MySQL username submit problem
- by peakUC
I want to allow users to either have there username field empty at any time but I get the username error message Your username is unavailable! how can I correct this problem?
Here is the PHP code.
if(isset($_POST['username'])) {
$u = "SELECT *
FROM users
WHERE username = '$username'
AND user_id <> '$user_id'";
$r = mysqli_query ($mysqli, $u) or trigger_error("Query: $q\n<br />MySQL Error: " . mysqli_error($mysqli));
if (mysqli_num_rows($r) == TRUE) { // Unavailable.
echo '<p class="error">Your username is unavailable!</p>';
$username = NULL;
} else if(mysqli_num_rows($r) == 0) { // Available.
$username = mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $purifier->purify(htmlentities(strip_tags($_POST['username']))));
}
}
