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How do I allow users to have spaces in their username?

I've looked through all the docs and admin stuff, but cannot find how to do it.
Is this something that will be allowed or added to a new release?

Thanks,

FC

[6.1b1]

There's a config setting to allow special characters.

If special characters are not allowed, only "A-Z", "a-z", "0-9" and "_" are permitted.

If special characters are allowed, the only exclusions are " " (non-breaking space), "<", ">", leading space and trailing space.

If you want to allow spaces without allowing other special characters, you would need to change adduser.php. Look at the section of code starting with "// No special characters".

Thanks, I should've seen that in the config area!

FC

Hmm, I'm guessin this is why none of the new users on my board have used a space in their name since I upgraded to UBBT from classic, LOL

I'll turn this on and cross my fingers to hope no smart*ss causes chaos and forces me to edit the code to allow spaces only, hehe

If you did want to add spaces for the no-special-characters case, you could do it like this:

adduser.php (6.1b1), change:

code:
// No special characters 
   if (!$config['specialc']) { 
      if (!preg_match("/^\w+$/",$Username)) { 
         $html -> not_right($ubbt_lang['BAD_UNAME'],$Cat); 
      } 
   }

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to:

code:
// No special characters 
   if (!$config['specialc']) { 
      $username_pattern = '{ 
         ^\w    # must start with word-character [A-Za-z0-9_] 
         [\w ]* # zero or more word-characters or spaces 
         \w$    # must end with word-character 
      }x';      # x-modifier removes whitespace and comments from pattern 
      if (!preg_match($username_pattern,$Username)) { 
         $html -> not_right($ubbt_lang['BAD_UNAME'],$Cat); 
      } 
   }

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That code will allow new usernames to have a space or two, while still having the no special characters feature enabled?

That is correct.

Thanks! Looks like it works great