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)

[TCB]

looks real fancy and user friendly. Thanks a lot

[ecihanuysal]

character problem still exists.. uninstalled..

[Stifmeister2]

Does this work for 3.6.x ?

[Jase2]

Stifmeister2, if it worked for 3.6 then it would of been released in the 3.6 section

It may work, but this is a 3.7 release.

[hubix]

Hello,

would it be possible to show the warning messages for the password field after entering it in the second field? Without that change you are getting the warning just after filling out the first one and the user may think, he made something wrong.
And i think on message per line would be enough.
The same change would be nice for the email field.
It would smoothen this script in my opinion.
Maybe others want that too.

And the rating stars appear in Firefox without editing any scripts, just not on IE.

[malag]

thanks, good hack.

[James Desalus]

Excellent! I've been looking for this!

[Jeordie015]

This is a somewhat minor thing, but at least in Internet Explorer, as you're typing in the fields, the border around the text field disappears (or does it go black?). Is there a way to keep the border from disappearing/going black while typing in the field?

[abrecher]

Thank you for this mod, great work. I'd like to suggest the following two items for your next release, let me know if you agree with me:

- "Please fill out both password fields" shouldn't show unless the user actually skips the password field(s) and starts entering their Email Address

- The same for the email address fields. The "You have left a required field blank." message shouldn't show up unless they sipped to the next item.

After typing in these two suggestions I see that I'm not the only one interested in this modification.

[Hornstar]

Installed and nominated for MOTM so wonderful to finally have this for 3.7 where it works and does not need any template edits.