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]

thanks, the update fix the problem..

[abrecher]

Originally Posted by xXEsEtUlOnXx

thanks, the update fix the problem..

Same here, thanks for the update.

[TheInsaneManiac]

What exactly was the bug in the username field?

[FractalizeR]

Entered username field contents was put into log.txt file by file_put_contents function. I left that function there by mistake. Used it for debugging purposes. On some servers, PHP scripts, probably, have insuficcient permissions on writting to that folder, producing a warning, that broke JSON formatting of results.

[G7your.com]

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

both arabic and english names.

hope the aurther can solove this problem.

[srkrocks]

Installed!

[smirkley]

Thanks,... Installed and clicked.

I did notice that it suggested a username on the reg page is good even if it is not. Only fails upon initial testing, if username includes a space in it where a pre-existing username with space in it already exists. Single word no-space usernames seem to verify properly.

v:1.1.4 installed

[TheInsaneManiac]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Entered username field contents was put into log.txt file by file_put_contents function. I left that function there by mistake. Used it for debugging purposes. On some servers, PHP scripts, probably, have insuficcient permissions on writting to that folder, producing a warning, that broke JSON formatting of results.

I never got this error so that must mean it was put into a txt file. Mind telling me where it is? I like to keep any files I don't use off my server.

[FractalizeR]

It is in the root forum directory. Where fractalizer_ajaxreg* files reside.

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by smirkley

Thanks,... Installed and clicked.

I did notice that it suggested a username on the reg page is good even if it is not. Only fails upon initial testing, if username includes a space in it where a pre-existing username with space in it already exists. Single word no-space usernames seem to verify properly.
v:1.1.4 installed

Can you please rephrase your sentence? I doubt I understood something...