User registration with [ ( and <space>

Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 2:00 pm

Most of my users are clanmembers and they always have "name [claname]" or "name[claname]" or even "name(claname)" as their nicknames. These nicks are not alowed in the php 6.5 forum module. (since they cotains ([

However they can register with name without the tags, go to forum and change their name to "Whatever [example)"

Is it possible to register with ( [ and <spacebar> in the nickname...

Gosh! Read slow... LOL!

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

On or about line 20 of Your_Account find this line

Code:

if ((!$username) || ($username=="") || (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]",$username))) $stop = "<center>"._ERRORINVNICK."</center><br>";

Change it to

Code:

if ((!$username) || ($username=="") || (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_\[\]-]",$username))) $stop = "<center>"._ERRORINVNICK."</center><br>";

Edited - I forgot to add the whitespace.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 2:45 pm

What do you mean with "On or about line 20 of Your_Account find this line " ?

Where is the file? Embarassed

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

modules/Your_Account/index.php

Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 10:39 pm

Thx. I tried but I got an error when i tried to enter "Userprofile". Could you please post all the code from index.php here? Wink

Captain Joined: Jan 17, 2003 Posts: 629 Location: Europe

Just a marginal note.
If you someday decide to shorten your URLs, names with spaces within will ruin your userinfo-name.html

Example
now your personal page hier is
http://www.nukecops.com/userinfo-JallaBalla.html

if you add a space b/n Jalla and Balla, then do not expect this
[url=http://www.nukecops.com/userinfo-Jalla Balla.html]http://www.nukecops.com/userinfo-Jalla Balla.html[/url]

The result will be rather this
http://www.nukecops.com/userinfo-Jalla.htmlBalla

There is no cure for this illness.
Even if we allow spaces in the rewrite rules, when you click on
http://www.nukecops.com/userinfo-Jalla Balla.html
you will get
No user Information

Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 12:21 am

If I skip the <spacebar> part... does this helps....?

Captain Joined: Jan 17, 2003 Posts: 629 Location: Europe

Yes, it does.

I, for one, do not allow users to change their names. This creates a real havock.

Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 12:29 am

OK - I'll try without the SPACEBAR then. However could you help me with the code ? The above didn't work. Embarassed

Captain Joined: Jan 17, 2003 Posts: 629 Location: Europe

The Raven's code works fine for me. Only replace "\w" with ""

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

Thanks Imago. I was trying to recall off the top of my head what the code was for a space Embarassed

. I guess I had an "old timer's" moment Laughing

. I went back and edited my post in the event someone stops reading there.