here's where the heavy lifting begins - everything is likely to be broken for quite some time as we add location and db independence to items and conversations and work through the rest of the permissions and how to federate the buggers.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mod/profiles.php b/mod/profiles.php
index 8a146d6a8..8679f3026 100644
--- a/mod/profiles.php
+++ b/mod/profiles.php
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ function profiles_post(&$a) {
 				}
 				else {
 					$newname = $lookup;
-					if(strstr($lookup,' ')) {
+/*					if(strstr($lookup,' ')) {
 						$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `name` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 							dbesc($newname),
 							intval(local_user())
@@ -107,6 +107,17 @@ function profiles_post(&$a) {
 							dbesc($lookup),
 							intval(local_user())
 						);
+					}*/
+					
+					$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `name` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
+						dbesc($newname),
+						intval(local_user())
+					);
+					if(! $r) {
+						$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `nick` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
+							dbesc($lookup),
+							intval(local_user())
+						);
 					}
 					if(count($r)) {
 						$prf = $r[0]['url'];