Users with "&" in their name

They get this:

http://www.cruiselineforums.com/foru...h-and-rod.html

The username is beth_&_rod

how to change it?

Hi rex_b,

the "&" character cannot be directly included into URL, but it is possible to allow special characters in member profile URLs by setting the following (manually) in includes/config_vbseo.php:

define('VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS', 1);

This url will be looking like:
http://www.cruiselineforums.com/foru...%2526_rod.html

where do I put that?? I'm confused

Originally Posted by rex_b

where do I put that?? I'm confused

Read his post again. includes/config_vbseo.php

Into "includes/config_vbseo.php" file.
It is set to:

define('VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS', 0);

by default.

However, it is not required if you don't want other special characters remain in URLs, because the problem with ampersand character was fixed before and will be included in the next vBSEO release soon.

Oleg,

Even with the next release, I will need to keep this setting to 1 for my problem, is that correct?

(Member List)

Yes, that's correct - VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS=1 is required to include urlencoded characters in URL.

Thanks. I still have that setting set to 1.

But I think I may have found a problem.

Username: [HS]Daddy
URL: http://www.fireblades.org/forums/members/hs-daddy.html

Username: [R]eplica
URL: http://www.fireblades.org/forums/members/r-eplica.html

Shouldn't it be encoding the [ and ] instead of stripping them?

Well.. since VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS is still an experimental option (and is modified manually only), there was a set of most used special characters included in URL, but *not all* characters.

vBSEO 2.2.0 will urlencode all special characters for member profiles when this option is enabled. And so, [ and ] will also be included in url.

Great. Thanks!