jQuery Username Availability Validation
It is common operation on each sign up or the registration process, whenever we create or add new user in to the system we needs to add a common identifier for each user and that becomes username, it can be email address or just a string. having said that while doing this process we needs to validate the username and validation is actually check whether particular username is available to user or not.
Let’s make it simple to understand, in programming words check if is there any existing username is present in the database table
In this tutorial I am going to explain each aspect along with the source code. let’s get started step by step:
Step 1: Database Setup
Create MySQL database table to store users details. (if you have already created that’s fine! just match your field name with the source code) and have few dummy records record entries to test.
users table:
1 2 3 4 5 | CREATE TABLE `users` ( `id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `username` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id` ) ) ENGINE = MYISAM ; |
SQL Dummy Records:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | INSERT INTO `users` ( `id` , `username` ) VALUES ( NULL , 'user1' ), ( NULL , 'user2' ); |
Step 2: Start Programming
Create MySql Database Connection File:
2.1 Create DB connection file db_connection.php and use following code and update the connection variable settings according to your system settings.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | <?php // Connection variables $host = "localhost"; // MySQL host name eg. localhost $user = "root"; // MySQL user. eg. root ( if your on localserver) $password = ""; // MySQL user password (if password is not set for your root user then keep it empty ) $database = "test"; // MySQL Database name // Connect to MySQL Database $con = new mysqli($host, $user, $password, $database); // Check connection if ($con->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: " . $con->connect_error); } ?> |
Username Availability Check:
2.2 Create PHP file to check username : username_check.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | <?php if(isset($_POST['username'])) { // include Database connection file include("db_connection.php"); $username = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, $_POST['username']); $query = "SELECT username FROM users WHERE username = '$username'"; if(!$result = mysqli_query($con, $query)) { exit(mysqli_error($con)); } if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) { // username is already exist echo '<div style="color: red;"> <b>'.$username.'</b> is already in use! </div>'; } else { // username is avaialable to use. echo '<div style="color: green;"> <b>'.$username.'</b> is avaialable! </div>'; } } ?> |
Sample Registration Form to Test Username:
2.3 Create Registration form with HTML and add Jquery and external javascript file (script.js) to head section: index.html
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>iTech Empires Demo - JQuery Username availability validation</title> <!-- jQuery file --> <script src="js/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script> <!-- Custom JS file --> <script src="js/script.js"></script> </head> <body> <h2>JQuery Username availability validation</h2> Username: <input type="text" id="username" /> <div id="status"></div> </body> </html> |
2.4 Create and open script.js file and write following code, to check username. : script.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | $(document).ready(function(){ // check change event of the text field $("#username").keyup(function(){ // get text username text field value var username = $("#username").val(); // check username name only if length is greater than or equal to 3 if(username.length >= 3) { $("#status").html('<img src="loader.gif" /> Checking availability...'); // check username $.post("username_check.php", {username: username}, function(data, status){ $("#status").html(data); }); } }); }); |
2.5 Review folder structure:
Output (error message ):
Output (success message ):
Your done, run your code to checkout or you can download the source code from below link:
I followed all steps, also downloaded jquery-1.11.3.min.js file and included it in the head tag, but the test app, is silent as a picture
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