[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ignicoccus

Thanks for this great mod !

I installed it yesterday and it ist working like a charm, except ...

Users with special characters in their username (e.g. 'A&J') get a "Unknown username" message when submitting a new link. I use the german translation.

How do I solve this ?

Thanks for reporting this - I'll check and give you a fix.

updated...

if you are comfortable editing the code, I think this should do the trick..

take a copy of includes/local_links_include.php and edit.
go to line 1670

function lookup_userids($usernames) {
	global $vbulletin;

	$ids = array();
	foreach ($usernames as $k=>$v) {
		$usernames[$k] = trim($vbulletin->db->escape_string($v));
		$ids[$k] = 0;
	}

change to

function lookup_userids($usernames) {
	global $vbulletin;

	$ids = array();
	foreach ($usernames as $k=>$v) {
		$usernames[$k] = trim($vbulletin->db->escape_string(htmlspecialchars_uni($v)));
		$ids[$k] = 0;
	}