private function check_username($id, $args)
{
$str = $_POST[$id];
$Users = new PerchUsers();
// check for a passed in UserID
// so that a user can be excluded from the check
// (so we don't prevent editing of a record)
if (isset($args['userID'])) {
$exclude_userID = $args['userID'];
} else {
$exclude_userID = false;
}
if (!$Users->username_available($str, $exclude_userID)) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
