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This is a discussion on special characters in member profiles problem within the Troubleshooting forums, part of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap category; Ok here's the problem... There's a user called Peoples and another user called -PEOPLES- . When I click on the ...
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| special characters in member profiles problem
Ok here's the problem... There's a user called Peoples and another user called -PEOPLES-. When I click on the nick's in Who's Online? it redirects to the profile of the first one for both users. So vbseo removes the - on user -PEOPLES-. That's because I have set include special characters to 0 in config_vbseo. So now you think: so set it to 1 and it will include the - right? Yes I could do that but then usernames with spaces in them are badly rewritten. John W turns in to John%2BW or something. So I think what I need is something that allow the use of certain characters and disallow others. |
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| vB 3.6.x has a field in AdminCP where you can use RegEx to specify what characters are allowed in usernames. I have mine limited to letters, numbers, _ and .
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Yep i know I've used that for new registrations but old ones are still using some of the forbidden chars. That's why I'm searching for a solution for them. btw just noticed this is in the wrong forum. Last edited by dutchbb; 02-06-2007 at 08:38 PM. |
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Oh really? I never knew about that. Think you could guide me please 'cause I'm not sure if I can see it. |
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Actually, I only allow letters, numbers, periods and dashes. It's under User Registration Options. This is the RegEx I use: ^[A-Z0-9-.]+$
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Thanks. Still that doesn't solve the problem with dashes in similar usernames. A link to user -joe- will go to the profile of joe.
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Yeah, you would have to disallow - also. Or include the userid in your profile URL.
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[edit] Well I think your idea is better, just not allowing dashes in usernames, and replacing the ones that already exist with underscores. Last edited by dutchbb; 02-15-2007 at 12:01 PM. |
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Is there any other information about this? I have a ton of users with japanese characters and other special characters in their username. Quite honestly I don't want to enable the regex for usernames since then people won't be able to use Japanese names.
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Thanks, that works.
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