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)

[DontWannaName]

I wish they had this for 3.8.1

[jw00dy]

This works fine on my 3.8.1

[Il Pompa]

This not work on my 3.8.1 patch level 1 can you see here: http://www.motopowah.com/forum/register.php?do=register

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by Shazz

The only thing AJAX on the 3.8 registration page is the username feature... FYI

That's incorrect, password is ajax based too.

On a side note:

I found this script

http://passwordstrength.net/

This would be awesome to implement this version instead if anyone has the programming experience to do so. I don't unfortunately.

[LUTRELL]

I install still the xml file from my desktop, and loaded all of the files to the root folder. Then went to the product management options, but I cant find any setting to change. I dont see the change on the registertion sceen.What should I do, because i got lost.

Thanks,

[MuhammadC]

Excellent mod! Works great.

[Axor]

Can anyone help me?

I want do disable the Password Generator.
I tried to change ajaxreg_uncompressed.js to

// box_PasswordConfirm.after('');

When I click into first Password field, fill in my password and go to the confirm field I think it isn't good to show an error still before i have inserted the confirmed password.

I tried to change ajaxreg_uncompressed.js to

//box_Password.bind("keypress", clearPasswordsMarks);

but it still doesn't work


thanks

[viper357]

How do I disable the password and email checking? I only want the username check. Thanks.

[SnowBot]

can the author confirm if this will work in full with the latest vb version please

[MadK]

Originally Posted by SnowBot

can the author confirm if this will work in full with the latest vb version please

I'd like to know, too. Some say it works, some say it doesn't...