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)

[Mesohu]

Doesn't work , when I open the password suggestor my registration page get a refresh & i get back in home/index.

Tested on IE 7

[taxick]

Thanks now it works - Wrong Icon INSTALLED

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by Mesohu

Doesn't work , when I open the password suggestor my registration page get a refresh & i get back in home/index.

Tested on IE 7

Unfortunately, I don't know what problem do you have... I tested scripts on IE7 and all works fine. May be you have some popup blocker active?

[Auron]

l experienced the same problem as taxick, l tried using IE6 and also tested with Firefox, however l will update the thread once l have tried the new update.

[Darkstarproject]

Works fine for me in IE7

[Auron]

just ran another test, lm still getting refreshed to the main forum index when clicking the generate password link, just FYI lm using 3.7.1.. l did have another ajax reg mod installed but due to it being moved into the waste basket due to an exploit or something l had to remove it...

on a side note, is there a way for you to make the passwords bit optional without having to remove it from the code? like a vboption or something... or keep the password generator but have it more as a DHTML popup on a similar scale to the DHTML popup that l think is available for pm notification.. was a 3.6 mod (l think)

[FractalizeR]

Do you have any popup blockers active? That popup uses window.open javascript function, that could be blocked by some firewall apps. However, that should'nt be a reason of redirecting to main forum page. If you are redirected to register.php, that explains something... Are you?

[KM7]

Great product, but unfortantly it doesn't check Arabic user names (cp1256) well. Hope you can do something about it.

[FractalizeR]

Auron, page refresh issue seem to be fixed in 1.1.3 I just uploaded. Test please.

KM7, does my mod say, that username is available while it is really not?

[Mr.samy]

After i Update to 1.1.2 ... username check not work