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I’ve been trying to get the phpbb3 & zen cart integration to work.

I’ve had some errors in the default SQl zen cart comes with. First I was getting an error about an invalid column name in the phpbb_user_groups table (specifically the group_description column not existing). Once I fixed that, I got a very cryptic “1062 Duplicate entry ” for key 2″ error every time I tried to create a new user.

Here’s how to fix BOTH of these problems:

Problem 1 – “column group_description does not exist”:

Edit line 196 in store>includes>classes>class.phpbb.php. Change “group_description” to “group_desc”

Problem 2 – 1062 Duplicate entry ” for key 2:

Edit line 187 (in the same file as in Problem 1). Change it from:

(user_id, username, user_password, user_email, user_regdate)

to:

(user_id, username, user_password, username_clean, user_email, user_regdate)

Edit line 189. Change it from:

(‘” . (int)$user_id . “‘, ‘” . $nick . “‘, ‘” . md5($password) . “‘, ‘” . $email_address . “‘, ‘” . time() .”‘)”;

to:

(‘” . (int)$user_id . “‘, ‘” . $nick . “‘, ‘” . md5($password) . “‘, ‘” . $nick . “‘, ‘” . $email_address . “‘, ‘” . time() .”‘)”;

phpbb requires that each user have a unique “username_clean”. This is the second “key” in the table requirements. The first creates an index on user_id, the second requires username_clean be UNIQUE, the third creates an INDEX on user_birthday, and so on. In fact, at NO POINT do they EVER REQUIRE THE USERNAME TO BE UNIQUE! WHAT????? yep. It’s username_clean that must be unique. zen cart doesn’t even try and insert anything into username_clean, it just tries to make the username (this makes no sense at all!!!).

Feel free to comment if you have any insights/questions!

Tags: database, error 1062, phpbb, phpbb3, zen cart

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