[sv1cec]

Thank you, yes, that worked. But that is below the area I want to have that information, ideally, I need to make that check before register_addmember_process hook, so that I can take whatever action I want to, inside that hook.

As for vB3, it's hard to tell you exactly where the conversion occured, in the standard file, my exisiting file is heavily, heavily patched, all those years, so it's not sure that everything I have in my file is in the vB version. But the conversion to $bbuserinfo occurs a little after the check for illegal user name.

Look for this code in register.php, or part of this code:

if (!empty($vboptions['illegalusernames']))
	{
		$usernames = preg_split('/\s+/', $vboptions['illegalusernames'], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
		foreach ($usernames AS $val)
		{
			if (strpos(strtolower($_POST['username']), strtolower($val)) !== false)
			{
				$username = &$val;
				eval('$errors[160] = "' . fetch_phrase('usernametaken', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');
			}
		}
	}

Darn, there should be a way to convert the numeric value to the string, by unserializing the profilefield data, but I do not know how to do it.

--------------- Added [DATE]1356594046[/DATE] at [TIME]1356594046[/TIME] ---------------

OK, it seems that the string I need is contained in the variable $customfields. It includes the wording "Country : Greece " and the trailing space, but these are easy to fix.

OK, coming from vB3 (that was the last coding scheme I was familiar with), could you please tell me what these $userdata->set_userfields etc are? I mean it's not a function defined somewhere, so what are these things?

Is there a document somewhere which explains the new coding scheme adopted by vB in vB 4.xx?

Many thanks for your time my friend.