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)

[smirkley]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

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

No problem....

1 - The modification seems to work well.

2 - I have a username already registered,.. we'll call it "DomainName"

3 - I also have a username registered ,.. we'll call it "Domain Name" (with a space)

4 - Both are valid validated accounts

5 - after installing the ajax reg modification I then go to the registration page and begin entering in usernames, and as expected it checks and indicates whether it is already used or not, right?

6 - When I enter in "DomainName", it finds it and sets it as already used.

7 - But, and here is where I had the problem, if I enter in "Domain Name" with the space, it says the name is available, where I know it is not and I know it is already used.


I am using the latest VB version. Very unmodded with only two other modifications installed, spider display and cyb subforums, so I dont think it is conflicting with any other modifications.


Thanks for your reply, and I really like this hack.

[FractalizeR]

Thank you for reporting. I will have a look. Our hypothetic "DomainName" contains only latin characters or national also?

[smirkley]

No non-latin or otherwise unusual charachters at all, aside from the space in between the two words. Strictly English on my site.

Thanks

[GraNdMaStEr-B]

Hello,

I'm less then about 3 days old in doing this so please bare with me as i'm teaching my self.

When it ask

Unpack archive into forum root

Could someone please dummy it down alittle for me and explain were i can find this and once I do find this what do I do after?
Thanks,
grandmaster-b

[Goomzee]

nice hacks

[Kaycee123]

Originally Posted by GraNdMaStEr-B

Hello,

I'm less then about 3 days old in doing this so please bare with me as i'm teaching my self.

When it ask

Could someone please dummy it down alittle for me and explain were i can find this and once I do find this what do I do after?
Thanks,
grandmaster-b

Unzip the file that you downloaded from above. You will see 2 folders - clientscript and images - upload the contents of each of those folders into the clientscript and images folders on your site by FTP. The 2 .php files are uploaded into the main directory (where you see your admincp, modcp folders, functions.php file, etc.

Then go into your Admin panel - Plugins and Products - Manage Products - Add/Import product, find the product-fractalizer_ajaxreg.xml file and upload.

Then go to

[srkrocks]

Thanks for Update, Working Fine

[msnfrmnet]

thanks

[smirkley]

Thanks again.

[goranbaxy]

so basically, does this overwrite any VB file? If so I would have to install this mode after every VB update