Timeline for Can I provide a user's user_ID to them and can it also be searchable in a member's directory
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| Jan 21, 2023 at 13:42 | comment | added | aequalsb |
There's a WordPress function called _doing_it_wrong() that "Fires when the given function is being used incorrectly." While we aren't talking about calling a function in this situation... what you are asking at face value is _doing_it_completely_wrong() My answer is : don't just consider not doing... do NOT do that. yes, it's a potential security breach, but you are also setting yourself up for programmatic problems and creating pitfalls for logical processes... imagine "Please enter your 1-16 digit ID#" (assuming user_ID is an integer ID in the MySQL database and not arbitrarily assigned)
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| Jan 19, 2023 at 21:40 | comment | added | Rick Hellewell | If the answer is what you are looking for, it is helpful to others to mark the answer as correct. If it provides useful information, you can 'vote up' it. (That's how things work here.) | |
| Jan 19, 2023 at 10:34 | comment | added | AB_100 | That's helpful to know, thank you Rick. | |
| Jan 18, 2023 at 22:06 | history | answered | Rick Hellewell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |