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Conflict with usernames and avatars

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    Exclamation 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,

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    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

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    Quote 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

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    Hello and welcome to the boards =)

    Within vbseo_config.php, you will find this setting:
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    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
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    Isn't it config_vbseo.php ? <grin> .. or atleast thats what I have on my server!

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    Yay! - exactly, config_vbseo.php
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    So no bug. Thanks!

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