Trim whitespace on username for new registration

Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 484

"A friend" found this out the hard way ROTFL

upon a fresh install and I assume on new user registrations if you accidentally hit the space bar before entering your user name it inserts in the database with the space intact, therefore costing you hours trying to figure out why you cant log in Embarassed

Can we use a trim function to make sure there is no whitespace anywhere, ever Razz

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:41 pm

You should get this error when registering with a whitespace

Code:




There cannot be any spaces in the nickname< br /> There cannot be any spaces in the nickname< br />

Obviously the BR tags shouldn't be showing, but I'll take care of that.

You can try it at www.ravennuke.com

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:18 pm

ok must be the admin page only then, If you create a new admin via the create first function it does it.

Could also change RNYA so that you only recieve that message if the space is in between alpha numerics i.e spaces at beginning and end would be removed via trim

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:42 am

Actually what I am seeing if you go to register a new user is that the javascript kicks in as soon as you type a space saying for instance: dog bo has already been registered, is blocked or contains invalid characters" This is through the normal (non-admin) registration screen. If you go to add the new user administratively then you get the There cannot be any spaces in the nickname message.

Incidentally, does anyone know why we don't allow spaces in the nickname?

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:20 am

The posts from members with spaces in the nick can´t be found if I remember correctly.

edit:Just found something about this:

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postt8138.html

registered · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:13 am

I have verified the code in setup.php and it is not applying the same criteria for valid admin as what is being checked upon login. We will get this fixed. Thanks for bringing this up.