Question

I a have update form for account information. Under one form i have name, username, email, company, password. Let’s say all i want to do is change my name, i still use that form and all other fields stay the same. In the update form i have an email and username checker which make sure they aren’t already taken. So now, even if i don’t change my email address or username its getting submitted to the checker code.

How can I fix it so that it doesn’t prevent it if it belongs to the same person:

   // checks if the email is in use
  if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
  $_POST['email'] = addslashes($_POST['email']);
  }
  $emailcheck = $_POST['email'];
  $check = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM accounts WHERE email = '$emailcheck'")
  or die(mysql_error());
  $check2 = mysql_num_rows($check);

  //if the name exists it gives an error
  if ($check2 != 0) {
  print("here i basically show the form once again highlighting the error)");
  die('');
   }

Answer 1

i dont know how ur db is formatted but add username to sql should do it

 // checks if the email is in use
  if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
  $_POST['email'] = addslashes($_POST['email']);
  }
  $emailcheck = $_POST['email'];
  $check = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM accounts WHERE email = '$emailcheck' 
                        AND NOT(user='$username')")
  or die(mysql_error());
  $check2 = mysql_num_rows($check);

  //if the name exists it gives an error
  if ($check2 != 0) {
  print("here i basically show the form once again highlighting the error)");
  die('');
   }

Therefore it will look where the email is not in the row of that specific user 🙂