Conflict with usernames and avatars

I discovered 2 bugs I think:

Bug 1. We have a user called 'Rob G' and since a week ago a user registered with the nickname 'Rob-G'. Now when the old (Rob G) wants to upload a new avatar, he always gets the avatar from 'Rob-G' in his profile.

So what happens is, I think, that the software thinks Rob G and Rob-G are one and the same member when one of the two uploads an avatar.

I don't know if other problems exist for usernames, but this is one.

Bug 2. A user called '(Soulfly)' is registered at our board. When someone clicks on the birthday link with their username, they go to: 'Soulfly' instead of '(Soulfly)' . So the brackets are gone, and the wrong member is showed.



Now a solution for this is to disallow the use of these characters in usernames, for new registrations. But this is not really a solutions for existing members. Also a hack is needed to ban these characters in usernames for new registrations, as vbulletin doesn't have it standard.

Thank you,

hi

if you want to stop users from registering these types of names, install this plugin http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=96922

Originally Posted by Sniper

hi

if you want to stop users from registering these types of names, install this plugin http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=96922

thanks sniper

still something needed to solve #2 , I can't change all existing names with '(' in them

Hello and welcome to the boards =)

Within vbseo_config.php, you will find this setting:

Code:

define('VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS', 0);

Change it to '1' to have vBSEO include special characters using url encoding. This will prevent broken (or duplicate) user profiles

Isn't it config_vbseo.php ? <grin> .. or atleast thats what I have on my server!

Yay! - exactly, config_vbseo.php

So no bug. Thanks!