[Release/Guide] Account Creating With Client

[_Emme_]

Hello people, long time no release, haha =D Anyways, I was thinking. Isnt it annoying to go on a website everytime you are going to create a new account? Oh well, I actually think it is. So therefore, I will release how to create an funcion in your server, that allows the user to create an new account with putting "NEW" infront of the real username.

Example : You want to create an account with the username "Peter".
Then you do:

NEWPeter

Okay, hope you know what I mean. As some of you know, I encourage people to go INI for accounts/characters instead of MySQL, so this is for INI files, just so you know, but its easy to convert to MySQL.


So first, we go to the place in your source (Probably LOTF) where it all happens, Authenticate.

To get there, search for :

public static byte Authenticate(string UserName, string Password)

Now, find a good spot to put this funcion in. Found it? Okay, good!
First we have to make a check to see if the username starts with "NEW".
Okay, now this is REALLY fimiluar with the english spelling. We do this :

if (UserName.StartsWith("NEW"))
{

Now, we have to make it remove the actual "NEW". We can do that by this:

string RealUserName = UserName.Remove(0, 3);

The reason why we put 0, 3 , is because 0 is for the start of the name, and 3 is for the amount of letters we are going to remove. NEW is 3 letters, therefore we put a 3.


Now, we'll have to make a check if the accountname already exist. As I said earlier, I use INI, so you'll have to convert this to MySQL ( Not that hard really.. )

if (!File.Exists(StartupPath + "Accounts\\" + RealUserName + ".acc"))
{

Okay, so that checks if an file with the current username exist. Hopefully it doesnt.



Now its time for all the easy job, write a line to an INI. Not many people know how to do this, so I will guide you through.

First we have to create a new INI, with the name of the username. We do that like this:

IniFile I = new IniFile(StartupPath + "Accounts\\" + RealUserName + ".acc");

Now, lets write the password, status, logtype and character lines.

I.IniWriteValue("UserName", "Password", "");
I.IniWriteValue("UserName", "Status", "");
I.IniWriteValue("UserName", "LogType", "2");
I.IniWriteValue("UserName", "Character", "");
}
}

The "" or "2" after the , is the default value for each line.


So,I hope I have taught you something new today. Have a good weekend and goodluck!


Emme

[sherwin9]

+ for you , since it's a ******* nice release, though i'm not going to use it but ok :P

[Beta Limit]

Great Guide Emme as usual- i am going to add this into my server, will help ALOT when i go to .ini.

Also like how you explain every detail of it - This is a big help for the noobies

keep up the good work and i hope to see more!

[~Demented~]

nice work

[_Emme_]

Thanks for your comment guys, means alot.
Oh btw, forgot to mention ; Want me to explain something futher/better, or want to know what ___ means, or want me to implent _____ ( has to be related to this ) - Well then just go ahead and ask.

Also post comments on my guiding skills,I've tried to guide you through as much as I could.

Emme

[damianpesta]

Originally Posted by EmmeTheCoder

Wtf? This is absolutely NOT from Samevhan's source. I just created this dude, what tha heck?

Did he delete Post or did u just double Post? lol

[_Emme_]

Ahh, he deleted his post. Ill delete mine too. =P

[L1nk1n*P4rK]

+T, Great Release

[taylor2846]

NIce can i ask u somting how to u fix the inv bug help plz?

[taylor2846]

only one problem unless its just me

the name 'StartupPath' dos not exist in carnet context

[tao4229]

Originally Posted by taylor2846

only one problem unless its just me

the name 'StartupPath' dos not exist in carnet context

You can use

System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\"

[Korvacs]

So everytime someone spells their username wrong, regardless of if the password is correct, it makes a new account?

Thats genious

Why didnt anyone else think of this fantastic new feature?

[_Emme_]

I doubt someone have NEW infront of their real username..

[tao4229]

Originally Posted by Korvacs

So everytime someone spells their username wrong, regardless of if the password is correct, it makes a new account?

Thats genious

Why didnt anyone else think of this fantastic new feature?

Nah, thats COEurope style, this is actually an "OK" idea...
Easier just to have a register page though.

[Korvacs]

Originally Posted by EmmeTheCoder

I doubt someone have NEW infront of their real username..

Meh even still your just increasing the load on your auth server, if its even split from the game server, making it quite an idiotic way to make accounts <_<"