SQL error when submitting user profile form
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<p>After upgrading to 7.x-1.0-alpha2 I find that when a user edits their profile they get an SQL error:</p>
<p><code>PDOException: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 <strong>Duplicate entry '' for key 'name'</strong>: UPDATE {users} SET name=:db_update_placeholder_0, pass=:db_update_placeholder_1, mail=:db_update_placeholder_2, theme=:db_update_placeholder_3, signature=:db_update_placeholder_4, signature_format=:db_update_placeholder_5, created=:db_update_placeholder_6, access=:db_update_placeholder_7, login=:db_update_placeholder_8, status=:db_update_placeholder_9, timezone=:db_update_placeholder_10, language=:db_update_placeholder_11, picture=:db_update_placeholder_12, init=:db_update_placeholder_13, data=:db_update_placeholder_14 WHERE (uid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ; Array ( [:db_update_placeholder_0] => [:db_update_placeholder_1] => $S$Duja/giuCaNSUdRZkB3RQb/eZkRAtZ3hYgXxga.bBk6OhHOuc/3O [:db_update_placeholder_2] => [email removed] [:db_update_placeholder_3] => [:db_update_placeholder_4] => [:db_update_placeholder_5] => filtered_html [:db_update_placeholder_6] => 1399625171 [:db_update_placeholder_7] => 1454438194 [:db_update_placeholder_8] => 1454246219 [:db_update_placeholder_9] => 1 [:db_update_placeholder_10] => [removed] [:db_update_placeholder_11] => [:db_update_placeholder_12] => 0 [:db_update_placeholder_13] => [email removed] [:db_update_placeholder_14] => b:0; [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 4123 ) in drupal_write_record() (line 7333 of /[path removed]/includes/common.inc).</code></p>
<p>At the start of that you can see that it's trying to save '' as the name.</p>
<p>After debugging I find that this is caused by this new code in the module:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">auto_username_form_user_profile_form_alter</span><span style="color: #007700">(&</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form</span><span style="color: #007700">, &</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form_state</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form_id</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'account'</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'name'</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'#type'</span><span style="color: #007700">] = </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'hidden'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>I fixed it by adding a check to see if there is a name field there at all:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">auto_username_form_user_profile_form_alter</span><span style="color: #007700">(&</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form</span><span style="color: #007700">, &</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form_state</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form_id</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Only if there is a 'name' field present in the form, set it to hidden.<br> </span><span style="color: #007700">if(isset(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'account'</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'name'</span><span style="color: #007700">])) </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$form</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'account'</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'name'</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'#type'</span><span style="color: #007700">] = </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'hidden'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>Hopefully this will help someone else.</p>
>>> [!note] Pre-migration files
- [auto\_username.blank\_user\_fix.patch](https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/auto_username.blank_user_fix_0.patch)
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