Allow "=" and "-" (FIXED)

Nuke Cadet Joined: Nov 22, 2005 Posts: 7

Is there any way to allow special characters such as "=" and "-" in a username (like in a regex check or anything)?

EDIT: I ended up jumping into admin.php and changing

Code:

if (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]",trim($aid))) {
die("Begone");
}

to

Code:

if (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_=-]",trim($aid))) {
die("Begone");
}

ONE BIG NOTE: The "-" needs to go at the end of the regex expression because it tries to find a range of characters that the "-" sits between. So for example if i used

Code:

if (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_-=]",trim($aid))) {
die("Begone");
}

it would look for anything between "_" and "=" which is impossible.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:40 am

I'm sure there is a danger in there somewhere, but I don't see it at the moment. Thanks for posting the 'fix'.

-sting