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)

[entertain]

Hello, with Firefox 3.0.1 there is a little display problem with the (?) of the password generator.

With the Internet Explorer 7 its working fine.

[webuser99]

This rocks.

I was going to pay someone to create something like this for me..

yayy for patience.

[PoetJA-1975]

Originally Posted by webuser99

This rocks.

I was going to pay someone to create something like this for me..

yayy for patience.

[s]You could always make a donation :up:[/s]
ALSO - I was gonna nominate for MOTM too - don't see the link...

Jacquii.

EDITED: Oops - don't see Donate link either

[maslove23]

thx man it's nice really

i like it alot

thank you so much

[DesiMix]

Vey nice

[Aeolian]

this mod should be incorporated in vb core code..

thanks for the mod.

[Yellow Slider]

I'm using this product, but my forum is in Hebrew, so the ajax thing about the username being available, isn't working, when using usernames in hebrew, what can I do?

I'm not getting any recommendations for stronger passwords, why?
and for other nicknames, in English too, when trying to register with a username (in english) that already exists, it doesn't tells me that the nick isn't available during registration(on the time I'm typing the username), just after I click, "register".

[Yellow Slider]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

I'm using this product, but my forum is in Hebrew, so the ajax thing about the username being available, isn't working, when using usernames in hebrew, what can I do?

I'm not getting any recommendations for stronger passwords, why?
and for other nicknames, in English too, when trying to register with a username (in english) that already exists, it doesn't tells me that the nick isn't available during registration(on the time I'm typing the username), just after I click, "register".

help please.

[FractalizeR]

Unfortunately, I still have no time to investigate the problem with national characters. The reason is simple: forums use various encodings to display pages, but JavaScript (and AJAX) use Unicode. Javascript has no tools for code page conversion so... That's a problem.

[trilljester]

Fractalizer: Great mod, it's nice to have some visual feedback when registering.

Any chance for some Green checkmarks or something more than just highlighting the boxes green when things match up? Maybe a small phrase that indicates to the new user that everything is good when they match up or choose a username that isn't taken?