Re: [cobalt-users] CGI Script Question

["Mark Baker - Cobalt Lists" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Already given one to them, to late :o)

Regards,

Mark Baker
Dark Marketing Ltd
http://www.yoursitehere.co.uk

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----- Original Message -----
From: Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] CGI Script Question


> Hello,
>
> > I am making s sign up page for customers and I was wordering
> > if any of you
> > know how to make a script (.pl or .cgi) that can check to see
> > if a username
> > is taken by any of the virtual sites?
>
> If you just need to know the syntax, you need to use the getpwnam(3)
> structure like this (perl code, where $name is a string holding the name
> entered in the form):
>
> if (getpwnam($name)) {
> print "$name exists\n";
> } else {
> print "$name does not exist\n";
> }
>
> If you need an actualy CGI script written around this, we can write one
for
> you.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Michaelson
>
> Way to the Web Ltd
> Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
> http://www.waytotheweb.com
>
>
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