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David Copeland

11-13-2005 12:04 AM

Is the VB Chat turned OFF??

I went to www.vbulletin.org and click on the upper right link tiltled CHAT. The applet loaded, and although I was logged in with my user name showng, inside the chat box it said:

Looking up your hostname

Found your hostname (cache)

That nickname is erroneus. Enter another one.

Ramsesx

11-13-2005 12:12 AM

I tried, no problem (from germany)

Brad	11-13-2005 05:12 AM

Sounds like your username doesn't play well with the irc server. If you get that error type "/nick nicknamehere" (without the quotes, replace nicknamehere with the nick you want to use).

Club3G

11-13-2005 05:36 AM

I use the same Chat, and on my IRC server (EFNet) from what I can tell names with spaces aren't allowed. The applet is setting your nick as "David Copeland", which is why it's bouncing you.

Brad, if you come up with a way to truncate spaces, I'd be mucho appreciative of seeing how you do it. :)

Marco van Herwaarden

11-13-2005 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Club3G

Brad, if you come up with a way to truncate spaces, I'd be mucho appreciative of seeing how you do it.

If you mean to remove spaces inside names, you could use simply:

PHP Code:


		
			
$name = str_replace(" ", "", $name);

eXtremeTim

11-13-2005 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

If you mean to remove spaces inside names, you could use simply:

PHP Code:


		
			
$name = str_replace(" ", "", $name);

Darn I got beat to it lol.

Club3G

11-13-2005 07:04 AM

Aah, outstanding, thanks. :D I've no idea how to get php to actually pull the vb name variable and stuff it into $name, but I'll look into doing it. :D

(Sorry for turning this into an impromptu quick hack support discussion, lol)

Dean C

11-13-2005 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

If you mean to remove spaces inside names, you could use simply:

PHP Code:


		
			
$name = str_replace(" ", "", $name);

Or better yet :D

PHP Code:


		
			
$name = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-_`\[\]]/i', '', $name);

Lea Verou

11-14-2005 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean C

Or better yet :D

PHP Code:


		
			
$name = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-_`\[\]]/i', '', $name);

Ahh those regular expressions... They are too difficult :(

Brad	11-14-2005 09:31 AM

At first yes, but once you get the hang of them they become very powerful. :)

Lea Verou

11-14-2005 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brad

At first yes, but once you get the hang of them they become very powerful. :)

Yes, I can understand that but they are still difficult :p
And my book only talks about the other ones (those that work with ereg_replace :()

Brad	11-14-2005 09:49 AM

Shame, I notice a lot of them leave out PCRE.

http://www.tote-taste.de/X-Project/regex/

Hopefully you'll find that link of use. ;)

Lea Verou

11-14-2005 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brad

Shame, I notice a lot of them leave out PCRE.

http://www.tote-taste.de/X-Project/regex/

Hopefully you'll find that link of use. ;)

Thanks, I bookmarked :)
It looks nice-written :)

Marco van Herwaarden

11-14-2005 09:59 AM

Well by answer was the best for the original question, only to remove the spaces. If you have the choice, a str_replace is much faster. Dean however extended to original question nicely with the removal of some more special characters (although with some limitations that could also be done with str_trplace..

Lea Verou

11-14-2005 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Yep, why shouldn't that for example be doen with str_replace (many of them for the other characters)? Is it slower?

Marco van Herwaarden

11-14-2005 10:06 AM

BEcause with a str_replace you can only search for a list of chracters. With regular expressions, you can also deny any character that is not in a list.

David Copeland

11-22-2005 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean C

Or better yet :D

PHP Code:


		
			
$name = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-_`\[\]]/i', '', $name);

Dean C,

I noticed you are the only one in this thread with a space between first and last name, such as my user name.

So do I have to log out as David Copeland to use this forum's chat?? Or can the webmaster here modify the code to allow anyone with a space to use the live chat?

David

Guest190829

11-22-2005 02:22 AM

No, once you go into the chat and get the error just type:

Quote:

/nick NICKNAME

Replace NICKNAME with any other nickname that you want, and that doesn't produce an error. My username isn't allowed either thanks to the period, but I use Danny on the irc.

Chris M

11-22-2005 02:46 AM

Mine also isn't allowed because of the space - I use ChrisM with no space :)

Chris

Jenta

11-22-2005 02:55 AM

PHP Code:


		
			
// bad characters

$cleanchr = preg_replace("/[^ \\\\{}\^`\[\]\|\-\w]/", "", $vbulletin->userinfo['username']);



// leading numbers and dashes

$cleannum = ereg_replace("^[0-9\-]*[0-9\-]", "", $cleanchr);



// convert spaces to underscores

$nick = ereg_replace(" ", "_", $cleannum);

Chris M

11-22-2005 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jenta

PHP Code:


		
			
// bad characters

$cleanchr = preg_replace("/[^ \\\\{}\^`\[\]\|\-\w]/", "", $vbulletin->userinfo['username']);



// leading numbers and dashes

$cleannum = ereg_replace("^[0-9\-]*[0-9\-]", "", $cleanchr);



// convert spaces to underscores

$nick = ereg_replace(" ", "_", $cleannum);

I'm sure you meant $bbuserinfo[username] ;)

We aren't on 3.5 yet ;);)

Chris

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