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Topic: Using symbols in user name

Posted By: tlp2k
Subject: Using symbols in user name
Date Posted: 19 December 2003 at 7:01am

When registering for a new account, how do i stop users from using those symbols (~!@#$%^&*, space)

Thanks

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Posted By: tlp2k
Date Posted: 29 January 2004 at 1:11pm

anyone who can help me out here?
please?

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 29 January 2004 at 1:37pm

think those symbols will b removed automatically..

Posted By: mikebj
Date Posted: 29 January 2004 at 1:40pm

Just a small comment, no they don't it accepts that perfectly well in version 7.7, I have the same problem.

cheers

Mike

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 29 January 2004 at 2:04pm

look in the database.. at least, theyre converted to ASCII or whateva

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 29 January 2004 at 2:07pm

ok.. sorry.. i was wrong

Posted By: tlp2k
Date Posted: 30 January 2004 at 10:59am

is there a solution?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 January 2004 at 11:02am

You would need to write some javascript that could spot these characters before submitting the form.

Have a look on some JavaScript sites for some code that could do this type of thing.

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 30 January 2004 at 11:33am

You use RegEx to check if there are non-alphanumeric characters in the username and return an error.

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