Prevent shouting in usernames.

What's this do?
If you're like me you hate users who register with names like USERNAME. What this mini-hack does is transform all uppercase usernames upon registration to lowercase with an uppercase first letter. This "borrows" a function from the posting functions, therefore if you've got "prevent shouting" applied for posts it will also effect usernames. Preventing shouting in usernames. It will still allow all lowercase names or mixed case names to register properly.

Time to intall: less than 5 minutes
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Open register.php

find:

PHP Code:

// convert any whitespace to a single space to prevent users entering 'user    one' to look like 'user one'
    $_POST['username'] = trim(preg_replace('#\s+#si', ' ', $_POST['username'])); 


BELOW it add:

PHP Code:

// prevent username shouting 
    function fetch_no_shouting_text($text)
    {
        // stops $text being all UPPER CASE
        global $vboptions;
        return iif($vboptions['stopshouting'] AND $text == strtoupper($text), ucwords(vbstrtolower($text)), $text);
    }
    $_POST['username'] = fetch_no_shouting_text($_POST['username']); 


Save

upload

Your done!

This does not effect users already registered. It only prevents new registrations form shouting usernames.

There shouldn't be any support needed, but if there is, I'll handle it exclusively in this thread.


Version history
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v1.00 //initial release

v1.1 // updated to only prevent all uppercase usernames.

[007]

Anybody else want this for 3.5 as a plugin?? I sure would...

[tanyeri24]

There a option to give cumstom characters lik if it's İ then convert to i etc..

[tanyeri24]

is this hack also available for 3.5.x ?

[Chadi]

Does this work on 3.6.2?

[karabaja3]

this is not supported for 3.6.8.?

[Jolten]

Sorry. I am no longer developing anything for vBulletin. I have changed the settings to allow someone reuse this code in some other modification if they wish. And if anyone wants to update it for more modern versions of vBulletin, they have my permission.