From 35a261eb6d03dc8107623040136944aaf2565eab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ikawhero <ikawhero>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 05:57:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] MDL-17151: Missing code to check for uniqueness of values.
 Merged from MOODLE_19_STABLE

---
 lang/en_utf8/moodle.php |  1 +
 user/profile/lib.php    | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lang/en_utf8/moodle.php b/lang/en_utf8/moodle.php
index 7fa071581cb24..4965e7a71f8cf 100644
--- a/lang/en_utf8/moodle.php
+++ b/lang/en_utf8/moodle.php
@@ -1602,6 +1602,7 @@
 $string['userzones'] = 'User zones';
 $string['usethiscourse'] = 'Use this course';
 $string['usingexistingcourse'] = 'Using existing course';
+$string['valuealreadyused'] = 'This value has already been used.';
 $string['version'] = 'Version';
 $string['view'] = 'View';
 $string['viewfileinpopup'] = 'View file in a popup window';
diff --git a/user/profile/lib.php b/user/profile/lib.php
index e4a3e2919844e..418769bbc0f41 100644
--- a/user/profile/lib.php
+++ b/user/profile/lib.php
@@ -110,8 +110,16 @@ function edit_save_data($usernew) {
      * @return  string  contains error message otherwise NULL
      **/
     function edit_validate_field($usernew) {
-        //no errors by default
-        return array();
+        $errors = array();
+        /// Check for uniqueness of data if required
+        if ($this->is_unique()) {
+            if ($userid = get_field('user_info_data', 'userid', 'fieldid', $this->field->id, 'data', $usernew->{$this->inputname})) {
+                if ($userid != $usernew->id) {
+                    $errors["{$this->inputname}"] = get_string('valuealreadyused');
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return $errors;
     }
 
     /**