Tonight's work was all about the registration process involved with the Mercury System. Again this is something that had to be changed over from when the IM system was part of my online diary system that I had programmed. But it had to be changed completely for the Mercury System to make it self-contained.

During registration you will need to provide a username, password, E-mail address, select a secret question from a drop-down menu and then supply your secret answer. The process has specific error messages for the following instances:

1) New member enters a username that already exists.
2) New member doesn't enter a username.
3) New member doesn't provide a password.
4) New member doesn't provide an E-mail address.
5) New member doesn't provide an answer to the secret question that they select.

If all of the conditions are met (meaning that all the proper info was entered), the account will be created.

The next stint of programming will include the following:

1) Formatting the casing of the username so that when the script checks for if a username exists, it will understand that mercury_system and Mercury_System would be the same. This will keep users from having the same username aside from a letter (or all or any amount of letters) being a different case.

2) Force a particular range of number of characters in a username as well as exclude certain characters.

3) Do the same for passwords as the username in #2.

4) Check for the "@" sign as well as .com, .net, .org..etc... in an attempt to make certain that a valid E-mail address is included.

Appropriate error messages will be included for each one of these 'rules' for registration.

After these I just have to make the script create all of the directories and files necessary for each user such as default font database, uploads directory and other like files/directories that will be needed for each individual member.

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