Miscellaneous Hacks - Registration form AJAX enhancements

What does it do?

• Checks for username validity as you type it in registration form
• Checks for email validity as you type it in registration form
• Checks for password validity as you type it in registration form
• Suggests good passwords
• Shows strength of your password as you type it in registration form

Points of interest:

• No template or code changes. All is done using VBulletin Product API.
• Only several custom phrase is used. All others are taken from VBulletin. So, product localization is VERY easy.
• All validity checks are implemented using VBulletin API

How to install?

• Unpack archive into forum root
• Install *.xml file via Admin Control Panel (Product management)

What is NOT done:

• No checks implemented for entering captchas as it may seriously lower forum anti-spam security

How to update to latest version?
Overwrite all files by new ones from latest zip and reimport product XML file via Admin Control Panel with "Allow Overwrite" option checked.

Version history:

1.1.7 (24-07-08)
Situation where password = login is now classified as error. New string added for this case (localizers, note).

1.1.6 (22-07-08)
Minified version of ajaxreg.js included in the pack. 1Kb savings :)

1.1.5 (01-07-08)
Fix for checking usernames, containing space character (only fractalizer_ajaxreg_ajax.php file is changed since 1.1.4)

1.1.4 (17-06-08)
Small fix to a bug with username checking on some forums.

1.1.3 (16-06-08)
A fix provided to prevent some browsers from refreshing page after clicking on Password Suggestor button

1.1.2 (16-06-08)
Another attempt to fix checking usernames containing non-latin chars. Should work this time ;)
Icons rearranged to prevent problems with custom styles

1.1.1 (11-06-08)
Template issue fixed (password suggestor is now correctly shown) (skariko)

1.1 (11-06-08)
New feature - password suggestor. New phrases were added for it also to product XML.
New images for password strength added to distro for easy customization.
Functionality of password strength calculation fixed (Quantnet.org, Arbit3r)
non-latin characters problem hopefully fixed (requires iconv PHP extension, autodetected). (ecihanuysal)
Border in IE is now correctly cleared (Jeordie015)
1.0.1 (10-06-08)
Text sanitizing added (AlexanderT).
Password strength images are now shown everywhere (HTML was broken) (TheInsaneManiac, uantnet.org, Lionel)
jQuery is now about 45% less in size (Milad)

[xXEsEtUlOnXx]

Originally Posted by skariko

I have installed this new version, but now it doesn't check the username.

X2,
The same thing happened to my forum

[junaid]

yes same not work user name yet

[entertain]

Hello,

very nice modification.

I would wish me for the future a username check and an Image Verification check.

Well done.

*edit*
It also would be nice if it shows the password quality check while typing the password into the box and not only when the passwords were already typed into the box.

[Keyser Soze]

I can confirm that this addon does not check the username at all in the latest version. Please test your addon before uploading the next version.

[FractalizeR]

I am sorry, I left one debug statement and on some forums it terminated script execution with error. Fixed in 1.1.4.

Still, I cannot find a major solution to a problem with international names checking... If anyone has any suggestions, I will appreciate that.

If anyone having this problem can install a copy of his forum and give me MySQL+PHP access to that copy (it can be an empty forum at all, just having username entries, that cannot be checked with my hack) I will highly appreciate your help.

[Seb@]

thanks men works perfect

[FractalizeR]

You are welcome!
Non-latin usernames checking work also?

[Mr.samy]

thanks dear for update ...

After updating to 1.1.4 ... username check work good but there an problem with Arabic names

the name is already register and it appear the name is available to register ..

Note : 1.1.1 version worked well to me with arabic names

[entertain]

@Mr.samy:

Same problem with letters like ?,?,? and so on.

[Mr.samy]

I think the problem in files ... because i still with product version 1.1.4 with files version 1.1.1 and works very good now with arabic name and utf8 encoding