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Documentation And How To - CUSTOMIZATION - Removing Restrictions On Using Some Special Characters In Username

Zuker [ Thu 05 Apr, 2007 16:21 ]
Post subject: CUSTOMIZATION - Removing Restrictions On Using Some Special Characters In Username

OPEN includes/functions_validate.php

FIND

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if ( !preg_match("/^[a-z0-9&-_ ]+$/i", $username) )

REPLACE WITH

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if ( !preg_match("/^[a-z0-9&-_ Add here your new permitted charachters]+$/i", $username) )

OPEN language/lang_english/lang_main.php

FIND

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$lang['Forbidden_characters'] = 'Allowed characters for usernames are a-z, 0-9, -, _ and spaces.'; 

REPLACE WITH

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$lang['Forbidden_characters'] = 'Allowed characters for usernames are a-z, 0-9, -, _ Add here your new permitted charachters and spaces.';

Remember that you should not allow other chars, because you may be exposed to security issue... do it at your own risk.

Jdaw [ Tue 30 Dec, 2008 01:29 ]
Post subject: Re: Removing The Restriction Of Using Some Characters On Nicks

I am unable to add a single quote ' to the allowed list of the usernames. I am not sure how much of a security problem this would be but is there a way around this.

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THANKS

Informpro [ Tue 30 Dec, 2008 11:53 ]
Post subject: Re: Removing The Restriction Of Using Some Characters On Nicks

too long because you've to replace ' by ' everywhere

Ripley [ Sat 06 Mar, 2010 23:35 ]
Post subject: Re: CUSTOMIZATION - Removing Restrictions On Using Some Special Characters In Username

Is this correct
'Forbidden_characters' => 'Allowed characters for usernames are a-z, 0-9, -, _ а-я and spaces.',
or this ?
'Forbidden_characters' => 'Allowed characters for usernames are a-z, 0-9, -, _ а-я, and spaces.',
I tried first one, but nothing work

I did everything, also with lang russian/ lang main.php but it's not working

Quote:
тест : this username is not available

Mighty Gorgon [ Sun 14 Mar, 2010 09:59 ]
Post subject: Re: CUSTOMIZATION - Removing Restrictions On Using Some Special Characters In Username

Unfortunately current Icy Phoenix doesn't fully support UTF-8 and special chars.

I'm working hard to the project to enhance and fix this aspect, so you should wait the next version to have a new try with special chars usernames.