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)

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by Captain Tycoon

I have installed this on my forum but nothing has changed. I have uploaded the files to the public forum root and i have also installed the plugin as normal but it doesn't working with any browser. Any idea why?

Will i have to enable this mod through the adminCP? (after uploading/installing the plugin).

Give me link to your forum, please

[htscpl]

Great mod, thanks! *** clicks install ***

[yingzhou]

thanks for the update!

[marcossalazar]

Thanks for the update. I installed it but it still says 1.1.5 instead of 1.1.6....not sure if it is the file or I installed it wrong?

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by marcossalazar

Thanks for the update. I installed it but it still says 1.1.5 instead of 1.1.6....not sure if it is the file or I installed it wrong?

the xml version wasnt updated - you can do that manually

[Ratchet]

Does this also check the password against the username to make sure they don't match?

[FractalizeR]

Thanks for the update. I installed it but it still says 1.1.5 instead of 1.1.6....not sure if it is the file or I installed it wrong?

I didn't update XML on such minor update. It will be nasty for some users to reupload it for nothing.

Does this also check the password against the username to make sure they don't match?

No. Should it?

[Ratchet]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

No. Should it?

Yes. There there was a spambot running around the net a few days ago that hit a few hundred websites (including ours). It gained access to hundreds of accounts which it used to spam thousands of PMs to other users by simply using the account username as the account password.

More here and here.

It seems like requiring a password that is different from the username would be a simple hack to add.

[jayzy1]

Works well, great mod, installed & running smoothly on 3.7.2 PL1
Product manager shows v1.1.5 though, although i installed the latest version?

edit:
ok, Just read 2 posts above, manually changed mine to read v1.1.6

[Dotara]

Hello,

I've installed this Mod on Aqua Soft vBulletin Skin. But this MOD is not working properly on this skin. Email filed is ignored from checking and password lenght is showing under reCAPTCHA. I've attached screenshot to let you know about the problem. Any solution for me to fix it? Thank you. It is a great mod.