Username Checker

When the user clicks the register link their taken to a page where they only enter their username. When they push submit it checks the username, if taken it allows them to keep entering usernames until one that is not taken is found. Registration now resumes as normal. When they reach the signup form the username is already in the Username part of the form.

Request from nighteyes.

Last Updated 2nd November 2001 at 17:00 GMT

[Kaelon]

This is a nifty hack, and it is something that I've been looking for. Specifically, I run a role playing community board, and I'd like my users to have fantasy-specific names, so a checker that would be useful would prohibit names that:

- have numerical values
- have underscores or non alphabetic or apostrophe symbols
- are already being used

Is there a way to easily adapt this hack to run a check on these circumstances?

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Kaelon

[Esdee]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Is there any way to have this hack check for the usernames you have entered in the Admin CP that are not allowed before it passes it on? Right now, if you enter a username that is not allowed (from the admin CP), it will take you all through the registration process until you hit submit, then you will get the error message. Any way to correct this before it goes that far?

Anybody ?

The kack kinda loses it's point without this feature