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)

[iBlazee]

thank you.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

product-fractalizer_ajaxreg.xml is not needed in forum root It should be installed via Admin CP

ah, that's obvious mate ...

[Davey]

I'm not getting the password strength coming up visually (the stars).
I just upgraded to 3.7.1 (latest patch also).

Any tips on this? Thanks.

[FractalizeR]

They should come when any of password controls looses focus. Press Tab or click somewhere outside that control. My forum is running 3.7.1 just fine.
Please ensure this folder: \images\rating\ is not empty on your forum installation. You must have rating_0.gif, rating_1.gif, rating_2.gif, rating_3.gif, rating_4.gif, rating_5.gif files there.

Also you may be testing too short password (with zero strength ).

[Legende]

I've got the same problem with the stars images Using custom skin


Nice mod, waiting for this since Ajax Reg disappeared

[taxick]

Nice - Thx for this nice hack!

[AlexanderT]

Nice hack. I only had a quick glance at the code. One note: It's recommended that you sanitize the $_POST variables before using them (following vB's guidelines):

$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
'field' => TYPE_NOHTML,
'value' => TYPE_NOHTML,
'value2' => TYPE_NOHTML,
));

And then use the appropriate sanitized variables (e.g. $vbulletin->GPC['field']).

[Skavenger]

edited.

[FractalizeR]

If you are using custom skin, just replace /images/rating filenames in ajaxreg.js with the images you like.

[FractalizeR]

2Skavenger:
Please execute REPAIR TABLE vb_post on your MySQL server. It is not caused by my mod. Just MySQL crashed on your server on some reason.