http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: username en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:37:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-alpha-2wordpress-262-usernames-with-spaces#post-20020 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:21:59 +0000 bharatk 20020@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks Chris.</p> <p>I'm really not too fussed whtehe or not there are spaces as they work.</p> <p>The spaces probably activated my raticular activating system and impulsed me to write this topic </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-alpha-2wordpress-262-usernames-with-spaces#post-20001 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:51:52 +0000 chrishajer 20001@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I say "why restrict the characters in the login?" I would vote to leave them in. Most people won't use them, especially if they've been around for a while and are used to no spaces in usernames. But why arbitrarily limit the characters in the username? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-alpha-2wordpress-262-usernames-with-spaces#post-19998 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:19:16 +0000 bharatk 19998@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Just for information and perhaps integrity debates, I would like to tell you all that I currently only allow registration from WordPress.</p> <p>I noticed a few messages about usernames with spaces and have found that WordPress allows registration with usernames with spaces, and bbPress does allow login with the same.</p> <p>However, I have found that the general normal condition on the Net is that usernames do not have spaces.</p> <p>This could be seen as a great advantage of WordPress and bbPress or it could disturb the status quo.</p> <p>Everyone's feedback would be appreciated. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19522 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:04:30 +0000 myu 19522@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Will it be possible to upgrade to 1.0 when there're people registering with utf8 usernames?<br /> (I'm still testing and editing with 0.9, and will need utf8 names)<br /> Or will it be better to use 1.0 alpha? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19511 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:24:17 +0000 sambauers 19511@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Great! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19506 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:44:11 +0000 meitershaker 19506@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>it works! =p thanks ;) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19496 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:39:21 +0000 sambauers 19496@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@ meitershaker</p> <p>There was a bug in the display name implementation. First, update to the very latest trunk. There is a chance that you might have a user meta item for some users called 'display_name'. This will be stomping on the real setting in the user table. Use this SQL query to clear out the bad data.</p> <pre><code>DELETE FROM bb_usermeta WHERE meta_key = &#39;display_name&#39;;</code></pre> <p>Once you've updated to the latest trunk and done that, you should be able to use any UTF-8 character in display names. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19448 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:47:50 +0000 meitershaker 19448@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@ sam<br /> "In any case, the solution in the future is to change your display name after registration. Display names are UTF-8 friendly. "</p> <p>doesn't work!! </p> <p>me, 2 weeks ago:<br /> "but for choose a name to display on public (option in profil), a name with accents doesn't work ... " </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19447 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:30:07 +0000 myu 19447@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for reply.<br /> Me, I personally don't mind using alphabet for username, but have to think of target audience. Got me worried a bit. :)</p> <p>I hope in the future version there's some sort of conversion mechanism for people that's already registered using utf-8 encoded username. (pretty please..) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19432 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:45:13 +0000 sambauers 19432@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@myu</p> <p>It has to do with people using different character encoding for their database tables other than UTF-8. I'm probably overstating the threat as the same problem exists on all data input and we filter it out the problem there. I was also just reviewing WordPress injection attacks of days gone by, so it was on my mind.</p> <p>In any case, the solution in the future is to change your display name after registration. Display names are UTF-8 friendly. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19401 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:23:37 +0000 myu 19401@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>sambauers,<br /> may I ask why non-ascii chars for user name can make the threats of SQL injection etc greater? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19400 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:39:21 +0000 sambauers 19400@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It should be noted that using non ascii characters in bbPress is not supported and you could open yourself to a whole range of potential SQL injection threats by doing so.</p> <p>WordPress has never supported non-ascii characters in usernames and has compensated by allowing display names, bbPress 1.0 now allows display names as well for the same reason. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19381 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:37:49 +0000 meitershaker 19381@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>my problem is already here :( little help please :p </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19135 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:06:56 +0000 amirhabibi 19135@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>meitershaker: ;-) be patient!! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19051 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:45:25 +0000 meitershaker 19051@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>amir: yes :p</p> <p>ps: et plus précisément de la 1.0 trunk :p </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19050 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:41:53 +0000 amirhabibi 19050@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>meitershaker : are you talking about the 1.0 alpha ? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19039 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:10:46 +0000 meitershaker 19039@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>great it works! but for choose a name to display on public (option in profil), a name with accents doesn't work ... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19037 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:52:46 +0000 amirhabibi 19037@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for your replies. After reading / testing your links, I found a quick working fix. Here's the plugin code :</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php /* Plugin Name: UTF-8 usernames Plugin URI: Description: This plugin enable utf-8 characters in usernames. Mbstring must be enabled in the php.ini. Author: Amir Habibi Author URI: <a href="http://www.residence-mixte.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.residence-mixte.com/</a> Version: 0.1 */ function sanitize_user_mbstring( $raw_username, $username, $strict = false ) { $raw_username = $username; $username = strip_tags($username); // Kill octets $username = preg_replace(&#39;|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|&#39;, &#39;&#39;, $username); $username = preg_replace(&#39;/&#38;.+?;/&#39;, &#39;&#39;, $username); // Kill entities // Usage of &#39;mb_ereg_replace&#39; instead of &#39;preg_replace&#39; to preserve accents. if ( $strict ) $username = mb_ereg_replace(&#39;|[^a-z0-9 _.\-@]|i&#39;, &#39;&#39;, $username); return apply_filters(&#39;sanitize_user_mbstring&#39;, $username, $raw_username, $strict); } add_action(&#39;sanitize_user&#39;, &#39;sanitize_user_mbstring&#39;, 0, 3); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>To work, you must have mstring enabled in your php.ini.</p> <p>Hope this will help !</p> <p>chrishajer : our board is in french </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19031 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:24:58 +0000 _ck_ 19031@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>There's also plugins like this which can easily be modified:</p> <p><a href="http://bbpress.ru/files/plugins/CyrNickname.zip" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.ru/files/plugins/CyrNickname.zip</a></p> <p><a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/452/usernames_i18n_fix.php" rel="nofollow">http://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/452/usernames_i18n_fix.php</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19030 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:17:24 +0000 chrishajer 19030@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>This is the latest discussion I heard about the issue:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/diacritic-letters-i-username-like-goran" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/diacritic-letters-i-username-like-goran</a></p> <p>What is the primary language of your forum? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19020 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:04:32 +0000 amirhabibi 19020@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi! When you try to register a name containing accents, the accents are stripped.<br /> Any solution ?<br /> (0.9.0.2 &#38; the bug is visible on this forum) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18519 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:07:00 +0000 RossB 18519@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Righto - thanks, Chris. So, probably best to change both to the same number. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18500 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:57:42 +0000 chrishajer 18500@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>"Size" is the display width of the field in characters. </p> <p>"Maxlength" prevents you from typing in more than that many characters. The browser honors that and prevents more than that characters from being entered in the field. There are ways around this, but if you're not in a hostile environment, and it's all people from your organization, then lowering the maxlength just serves as a reminder to use a shorter name. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18496 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:39:45 +0000 RossB 18496@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>_ck_, </p> <p>May I seek some clarification re your post above, please?</p> <p>With that line in the register.php template, to reduce the max letter limit lower than 30, would I change both references to "30"? That is:</p> <p>size="30" AND maxlength="30"?<br /> Or just maxlength="30".</p> <p>Cheers<br /> Ross </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18429 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:07 +0000 RossB 18429@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>OK! That sounds like a good solution - thanks Chris. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18409 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:25:34 +0000 chrishajer 18409@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You can also add </p> <p><code>overflow: hidden;</code><br /> &nbsp;<br /> to the .threadauthor section of your CSS. That just hides any portion of their username that is wider than the space in your template. This forum template is like that. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18401 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:29:12 +0000 RossB 18401@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks, _ck_. Appreciate your prompt response. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18396 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:33:59 +0000 _ck_ 18396@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>That's another one of those silly things that got carried over from WordPress. The database limits it to 60 characters and the default template limits it to 30 characters but it's still overly long.</p> <p>Fortunately in bbPress (unlike WordPress) the registration form is done in a template and not in the core, so the easiest way is just to modify the register.php template under my-templates (or copy it from bb-templates) and change the line that looks like this:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;&lt;input name=&quot;user_login&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;user_login&quot; size=&quot;30&quot; maxlength=&quot;30&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php if (1 != $user_login) echo $user_login; ?&gt;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;</code></pre> <p>And instead of 30, make it the size limit you want.</p> <p>However people that are sneaky and bypass the registration form can still make it 60 characters (ie. spammers). But they will stick out, so you'll notice it right away.</p> <p>This can be fixed via a plugin but it would be way too much code to justify the fix. The template method is best. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/letter-limit-on-user-names#post-18393 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:36:17 +0000 RossB 18393@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Can a letter limit be set for forum user names (say, 16 letters) to prevent people choosing very long user names?</p> <p>Cheers<br /> Ross </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/this-username-does-not-exist#post-18103 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:46:31 +0000 chrishajer 18103@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Sorry, fresh out of ideas after that. I suspect that bbPress needs to be reinstalled after downgrading WordPress, but I don't know why that failed for you. </p>