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RE: [ic] Automated Backorder System/Username change
On 03-Jul-01 Russ Mann wrote:
> IC Users,
>
> I've just completed an automated backorder system for my site.
> Here's how
> it works:
> When a user makes a stock-alert request, it pumps data to the mySQL
> database.
> A cronned perl script checks the data daily and emails users when the
> product comes in stock.
>
> Also, I wrote some safe ICML for a user to change their username to
> something else. This is useful if you're requiring the email address
> for a
> username, or you want to allow changing of usernames. This updates
> all
> databases where the username is stored, in order to keep the users
> linked
> data intact.
>
> If anyone is interested, I can post the source, and maybe encourage
> RedHat
> to add this sort of thing to the IC distro.
>
>
> Russ
That sounds very interesting to me.
Ken Latta
kdl@sc.scruznet.com
