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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to increase max username length? Post 302475488 by ajay303 on Monday 29th of November 2010 02:06:24 AM
Old 11-29-2010
Question How to increase max username length?

Hi,
This is my first post to this site. So kindly forgive if I am writing in a wrong section.
My query is that...
I want to modify the max username length size. I guess it is 32/64 on CentOS. Now I want to change it to 128. Is there any way to do that?
Thanks in advance!! Smilie
 

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MSSQL_FIELD_NAME(3)													       MSSQL_FIELD_NAME(3)

mssql_field_name - Get the name of a field

SYNOPSIS
string mssql_field_name (resource $result, [int $offset = -1]) DESCRIPTION
Returns the name of field no. $offset in $result. PARAMETERS
o $result - The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to mssql_query(3). o $offset - The field offset, starts at 0. If omitted, the current field is used. RETURN VALUES
The name of the specified field index on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 mssql_field_name(3) example <?php // Send a select query to MSSQL $query = mssql_query('SELECT [username], [name], [email] FROM [php].[dbo].[userlist]'); echo 'Result set contains the following field(s):', PHP_EOL; // Dump all field names in result for ($i = 0; $i < mssql_num_fields($query); ++$i) { echo ' - ' . mssql_field_name($query, $i), PHP_EOL; } // Free the query result mssql_free_result($query); ?> The above example will output something similar to: Result set contains the following field(s): - username - name - email SEE ALSO
mssql_field_length(3), mssql_field_type(3). PHP Documentation Group MSSQL_FIELD_NAME(3)
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