Aevik wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:56 pmA username may change an untold number of times, but User ID Numbers never change.
According to Aevik... "Smith", userid 100, changed their name to "Jones"... then "Jones", userid 100, changed their name to "Peterson"... then "Peterson", userid 100, changed their name to "Johnson"... then "Johnson", userid 100, changed their name to "Rodrigus"... then"Rodrigus", userid 100, changed their name to "Olson"... then "Olson", userid 100, changed their name to "Rathburn".
Aevik wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:20 pmWhen the number of members reaches 4 figures, then it becomes a bit time consuming to check the moderator control panel in thousands of profile pages.
Does the OP want to search for the new "Rathburn" name showing now and list all of Rathburn's alias names used in the past?
Or does he want to find Rathburn's user_id number and list all of the alias names tied to that user_id number?
Or does he want to just find Rathburn's user_id number?
The third search would be easy to search for as stevemaury just explained. But the OP's brain could go into meltdown trying to search the thousands of profile pages the first or second search. When a user changes their name a report is sent to admin stating Olson changed his name to Rathburn with his user_id number. Then a second search in the db would add to that report listing all the usernames with user_id 100 to show all the alias names Rathburn used.
An extension that, every time a user changes their name would log the user's name, the username they changed from and their user_id would work.
And in the logs they would be listed in order of user_id number. This way it would group all of the user's alias names together for the admin.
It depends on what the OP is wanting. Then it gets complicated.
KevC wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:33 pmNothing is going to happen until you request an extension like I suggested in the very first reply.
Try to give details on exactly what you want in an extension. It makes all the difference.