Special Characters in username - Joomla 1.5
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:15 pm
I am working on migrating my gaming clans site to Joomla. It is currently Nuke.
Most of our members use some unicode characters in their username, for example "§«{})(|"
I was able to hack the nuke_your account file to accept special characters in usernames.
How can I get Joomla to accept certain special characters?
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I understand that Joomla doesn't allow this by default but is there a hack that can permit certain
characters? I see where some have dabbled with it successfully in 1.0 here:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg153019
What I did was convert my phpnuke database to phpBB2 and then convert phpBB2 to fireboard. Worked
like a charm with all the usernames intact. However, Joomla breakes special characters down to "?".
Surely, there is a registration, user, administrator, login, etc. file out there that has a filter in it. I have yet to
find anything like it in 1.5. The closest thing I have found was in:
components --> com_users --> admin.users.html.php
This is a pivotal issue for me in switching our site to Joomla. I like Joomla and want to find a way to make
it work. Any suggestion are much appreciated.
Most of our members use some unicode characters in their username, for example "§«{})(|"
I was able to hack the nuke_your account file to accept special characters in usernames.
How can I get Joomla to accept certain special characters?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I understand that Joomla doesn't allow this by default but is there a hack that can permit certain
characters? I see where some have dabbled with it successfully in 1.0 here:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg153019
What I did was convert my phpnuke database to phpBB2 and then convert phpBB2 to fireboard. Worked
like a charm with all the usernames intact. However, Joomla breakes special characters down to "?".
Surely, there is a registration, user, administrator, login, etc. file out there that has a filter in it. I have yet to
find anything like it in 1.5. The closest thing I have found was in:
components --> com_users --> admin.users.html.php
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var r = new RegExp("[\<|\>|"|\'|\%|\;|\(|\)|\&|\+|\-]", "i");This is a pivotal issue for me in switching our site to Joomla. I like Joomla and want to find a way to make
it work. Any suggestion are much appreciated.