Hi to all!
i've one problem with a nick name of a man in my site.

his nickname is: "Luca&Cecy"  (without "")

But the site view in all page: "Luca&Amp;Cecy"

In the DB there is the correct name... in i go to ACP and find Luca&Cecy the site find this name... but all the site view Luca&Amp;Cecy!

I've server linux install icyphoenix!

See this for example: h**p://***.marcheinmoto.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4170

thanks

i m just registred in your forum with luca-cecy because & is not suported for usernames

see picture

 

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very very thanks....

Yes there is a reason for not allowing '&' and various other symbols - because they can lead to remote file inclusions and other forms of hacking!

For your info this "stripping" is due to a function located in includes/functions.php - the function is called phpbb_clean_username($username).
You could modify it, if you wanted to allow symbols, though that really wouldn't be advisable