I migrated some users to bbPress and they are telling me that they get the following error when trying to login: User does not exist.

It turns out bbPress user IDs are case sensitive, so if the ID in the database is

Tipperary and the user types tipperary, it will not work.

Any way to circumvent this?

[@3sixty Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

OK. I’m thinking that I could somehow modify this function in functions.bb-users.php:

function bb_get_user( $user_id, $args = null ) {

global $wp_users_object;

$user = $wp_users_object->get_user( $user_id, $args );

if ( is_wp_error($user) )

return false;

return $user;

}

[@3sixty Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

OK. I’m thinking that I could somehow modify this function in functions.bb-users.php:

function bb_get_user( $user_id, $args = null ) {

global $wp_users_object;

$user = $wp_users_object->get_user( $user_id, $args );

if ( is_wp_error($user) )

return false;

return $user;

}

[@3sixty Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

ugh. this is tough.

Just found this comment from mdawaffe on the WordPress development blog:

mdawaffe 12:08 am on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

There’s some bugs in bbPress. In some places it treats user_logins case sensitively, and in others case insensitively (and sometimes it depends on your DB’s collation).

http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/i-upgraded-the-wp-org-plugins-directory/#comment-10009

[@3sixty Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

ugh. this is tough.

Just found this comment from mdawaffe on the WordPress development blog:

mdawaffe 12:08 am on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

There’s some bugs in bbPress. In some places it treats user_logins case sensitively, and in others case insensitively (and sometimes it depends on your DB’s collation).

http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/i-upgraded-the-wp-org-plugins-directory/#comment-10009

[@3sixty Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

OK… Here is my workaround for this problem:

1. In functions.bp-pluggable.php, under:

if ( !bb_get_option( 'email_login' ) || false === strpos( $user, '@' ) ) { // user_login

Add:

$user = strtolower($user);

2. In class.wp-user.php, under:

$display_name = $user_login;

Add:

$user_login = strtolower($user_login);

Voila – CaSe InseNSitIvity! Note that the placement of the strtolower() functions is important and allows the user to retain Case Sensitivity in their display_name (while changing their user_login to lowercase). I haven’t seen any untoward side effects yet, but will let you know.

Nice talking to me!

[@3sixty Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

OK… Here is my workaround for this problem:

1. In functions.bp-pluggable.php, under:

if ( !bb_get_option( 'email_login' ) || false === strpos( $user, '@' ) ) { // user_login

Add:

$user = strtolower($user);

2. In class.wp-user.php, under:

$display_name = $user_login;

Add:

$user_login = strtolower($user_login);

Voila – CaSe InseNSitIvity! Note that the placement of the strtolower() functions is important and allows the user to retain Case Sensitivity in their display_name (while changing their user_login to lowercase). I haven’t seen any untoward side effects yet, but will let you know.

Nice talking to me!