Unregistered Uploads

ski-whiz · February 13th, 2009, 08:05 PM

I have enabled unregistered members to upload.

I just noticed that everytime an unregistered person uploads an image it creates a blank user. Basically they have no name or anything.

The question I have is why does it create a user in the user table?

Oh, I'm using photopost by itself (internal registrations).

Since I'm allowing unregistered guest to upload, my user table is going to be HUGE! Plus, the stats will show a LOT of bogus members.

There's a good reason why I'm allowing unregged people to upload.

Chuck any ideas? Thanks!

Chuck S · February 14th, 2009, 09:47 AM

Not sure what your referring to your user table is going to be huge, the user table is updated via userid and guests are userid 0 so its only one entry that goes in there.

As far as by default putting a name like unregistered on the user try adding this line in bold on photopost.php file

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ski-whiz · February 15th, 2009, 06:57 AM

What I'm referring to is, is that I allow unregistered members to upload photos.

When someone who is unregistered uploads a photo, it coulds that upload as a member. So if I log out, upload a file, my member count will be +1. So for every unregistered upload I will have a user added to the table.

skidpics · February 15th, 2009, 09:01 AM

Chuck, I think I had a similar problem back when I install PP standalone - I had blank users in my database showing up right and left ;-) I mentioned it, but we never got to troubleshoot this issue..

Chuck S · February 15th, 2009, 09:51 AM

There are not multiple user entries entered for every photo upload that I am seeing here in the code.

The userid is defaulted to 0 I show in the specific integration so this query here in image-inc.php which inserts the user record is here.

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That should translate into this.

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Chuck S · February 15th, 2009, 09:54 AM

Basically mysql is making up a new userid based on the auto increment which does not matter essentially. You can comment out this line in image-inc.php to see if it helps stop that

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There should be nothing harmful though with having users in your users table.

ski-whiz · February 17th, 2009, 05:02 PM

I'll give it a try and let ya know.

Chuck S · February 17th, 2009, 08:34 PM

or surround that query with an if clause like this

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