[SOLVED] Changing from Single Name field to First/Last Name Fields

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11 years 4 months ago - 11 years 4 months ago #228698 by cegarrett

[SOLVED] Changing from Single Name field to First/Last Name Fields was created by cegarrett

I setup my community builder site using the Single Name option and now want to change it to to use First & Last Name Fields.

Are there any pitfalls I need to worry about?
My site used CBsubs and I have paid memberships and don't want to cause problems with the customers.

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/112-cb-122-general-discussion/138921-solved-qsingleq-name-to-qfirst-and-lastq-name

I found this Link thru google but it's for an older version of CB. can i follow these directions or do they need to be updated?

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11 years 4 months ago #228714 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic Changing from Single Name field to First/Last Name Fields

I believe CB populates the firstname and lastname fields regardless of your display setting so it should be fine. If it doesn't then your users will need to edit their profile and adjust the firstname and lastname fields as needed or you could run a database query to split it and populate firstname and lastname fields for everyone automatically.

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11 years 4 months ago - 11 years 4 months ago #228726 by cegarrett

Replied by cegarrett on topic Changing from Single Name field to First/Last Name Fields

Looking in my Database I only have 6 (of 204) users with First and Last Names Stored (the rest are null).

This Select looks good when I run it but I don't know how to update off of it.

Code:

 SELECT
 TRIM( SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', 1 ) ) AS 'first_name',
 TRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( `name`, SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', 1 ), '' ), SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', -1 ), '' ) ) AS 'middle_name',
 TRIM( SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', -1 ) ) AS 'last_name'
 FROM `jos_users`

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11 years 4 months ago #228728 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic Changing from Single Name field to First/Last Name Fields

The below will probably do the trick. Note you should make a backup of your database before doing this as I did not test the query.

Code:

UPDATE `jos_comprofiler` AS c SET `firstname` = ( SELECT TRIM( SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', 1 ) ) FROM `jos_users` WHERE `id` = c.`id` ), `middle_name` = ( TRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( `name`, SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', 1 ), '' ), SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', -1 ), '' ) ) FROM `jos_users` WHERE `id` = c.`id` ), `last_name` = ( SELECT TRIM( SUBSTRING_INDEX( `name`, ' ', -1 ) ) FROM `jos_users` WHERE `id` = c.`id` )

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11 years 4 months ago - 11 years 4 months ago #228731 by cegarrett

Replied by cegarrett on topic Changing from Single Name field to First/Last Name Fields

I ended up using

Code:

 UPDATE `jos_comprofiler` AS cb
 LEFT JOIN `jos_users` AS j
 ON j.`id` = cb.`user_id`
 SET
 cb.`firstname` = TRIM( SUBSTRING_INDEX( j.`name`, ' ', 1 ) ),
 cb.`middlename` = TRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( j.`name`, SUBSTRING_INDEX( j.`name`, ' ', 1 ), '' ), SUBSTRING_INDEX( j.`name`, ' ', -1 ), '' ) ),
 cb.`lastname` = TRIM( SUBSTRING_INDEX( j.`name`, ' ', -1 ) )

and It worked Thanks.

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