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)

[FractalizeR]

I know forum on vb 3.8.2 where it works ok.

[Hornstar]

I am running it on 2 vb 3.8.3 forums (with no problems that I am aware of)

[hydn]

Originally Posted by viper357

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

lol you were completely ignored.

[yotsume]

I am going to install this. However, my site gets members from all over the world. I can not have a bug where foreign members cant register because they have strange email addresses this mod cant handle???

[FractalizeR]

Try on beta copy of your forum if you want to know for sure.

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

Currently not supported.

[yotsume]

I do not think the password rating in this mod works well enough! I typed in a 30 digit long password with all sort of upper and lowercase and the trating isnt even half way filled!

The rating in this mod is a nice bug! Nice idea but not realistic at all!

Also the password suggestion is a super joke in my opinion. Who the hell is going to registration on a forum and use: 87dvji4fxopuq[84ygfng89 as a password! LOL

As an Admin I would spen more time helping my members with their silly password then anything else.

So 30 digit long with 20 upper and lower case and just over half on rating! LOL OK WOW this is super not useful!

The rest of this hack is a nice idea. To take it into the future and remain positive I suggest the email check also com firm email activation inline as well.

[FractalizeR]

Unfortunately, I have no time just now to improve 3.8.x version. Upon release of 4.0 I will adapt this hack for it and include new features.

[farazfaraz]

<font color="Red">beeeeeeeeeeeeest</font>

[SevgimBoard]

thank you

[TheInsaneManiac]

Looking forward to the new version.

Also note that VBulletin now does checks in the newer versions. Cause in 3.8 if the username is taken it will use an x or check if it isn't taken. So when yours checks you get two x's lol.