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]

Near "Enter password" box in Registration page.
Issue with password suggestor is fixed in 1.1.1. Just uploaded.

[Darkstarproject]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

What exactly do you suggest? What is "good" username?

Should have been more clear, when a new user enters a name, if it is not taken, show a check mark or something, I like the green border, but users are more drawn to check marks.

BTW, this hack is awesome!, and I will continue to use it.

[skariko]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Near "Enter password" box in Registration page.
Issue with password suggestor is fixed in 1.1.1. Just uploaded.

Cool, now it's ok.
Good work

[KURTZ]

so we need to replace only the files and overwrite the product? or delete/unistall?

[Seb@]

not work for me don't check the user

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

so we need to replace only the files and overwrite the product? or delete/unistall?

If you had 1.1 installed, then it is enough to reimport XML only. If 1.0.x - replace all files and reimport XML. No need to delete/uninstall. Just overwrite.

Originally Posted by Seb@

not work for me don't check the user

What exactly the problem is? Could you please describe more detailed?

[Hostboard]

There is a file that is no longer being used from the previous install (fractalizer_ajaxreg.php) I removed the file, uninstalled and re-installed. Works perfectly. Thank you!

Also suggestion...
1. Suggested passwords should include option to include symbols to make them stronger.

2. Password suggestion window should have a "close" link/button.

Installed
Nominated

[Keyser Soze]

Iconv-Extension (version 2.3.6) for PHP is installed on my machine but support for non-latin characters does not work at all. Had to uninstall this extension because of this issue today

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

Iconv-Extension (version 2.3.6) for PHP is installed on my machine but support for non-latin characters does not work at all. Had to uninstall this extension because of this issue today

What exactly happens on your forums when you enter non-latin symbols as username? What encoding does your forum display it's pages in? UTF-8?

[taxick]

Hallo

I have just updated the hack to 1.1.1

But now there is post icons in page.

See the images