Friendly pix demo

[Ely Ochola]

Hi Guys,

I'm pretty new to Firebase and love what i've seen so far! I was looking to use the FriendlyPix demo as a starting point for my web app. one thing I wanted to do was view a user by their username via the url rather than the UID.

So instead of: https://friendly-pix.com/user/08VdUeDOkhNgHXjaT2w77u9czM03

I was hoping to use a url structure like https://friendly-pix.com/user/UserName

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks!

[Tom Larkworthy]

So when you visit user/XXX the router calls loadUser:

https://github.com/firebase/friendlypix/blob/master/web/scripts/routing.js#L54

loadUser uses the input param to set the user_id

https://github.com/firebase/friendlypix/blob/master/web/scripts/userpage.js#L126

you could use the param to perform a query in firebase to map between a username and user_id

Although the consequence of that is that each username will have to be unique. Facebook makes user friendly user_ids by appending numbers to the basic name. So you would need to do something like check for collisions of usernames before assigning one.

The lookup functions are here:- https://github.com/firebase/friendlypix/blob/a1437c89db34aa330c3d667e4559302f1540007b/web/scripts/firebase.js

I think I would introduce a new lookupByUsername, which will utilize something similar to the existing searchUsers functionality to find a user record by name https://github.com/firebase/friendlypix/blob/a1437c89db34aa330c3d667e4559302f1540007b/web/scripts/firebase.js#L324

I'd then change loadUser to use lookupByUsername instead of lookupUser

The fact usernames would have to be unique is awkward and would need some work to get right though.

Tom 

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