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 guess this out of purpose of this hack, but this can be done using simple JavaScript or AJAX of course. Depends on functionality you need.

[OcR Envy]

I have it done with simple Javascript I'm just wondering if I can add the ajax this script uses to look "pretty"

[merk_aus]

amazing great mod

[Arbit3r]

Very nice, i remember there was an older one for 3.6.x. I hope this one will look as good as the beta 4.0 version of it. I remember it would divide the process into multiple steps to help users. First username then password so on..

[Quantnet]

Instead of defaulting the weakest password to images/rating/rating_0.gif, you should make the lowest one images/rating/rating_1.gif because rating_0.gif is an empty space.

Also change Password quality to Password strength.

[Arbit3r]

Yeah i agree or have that power bar system the old mod used. May i also recommend using a green tick symbol for correct entries. This mod has allot of potential but needs some tweeking.

[Hostboard]

Installed using default VB skin and was not able to get the password strength images to appear.

[Darkstarproject]

Tested with a very complex password, and images show.

I would agree with some sort of Check Mark for a good Username/Password

[Jase2]

Looks great! Still more work to do, though IMO. A tick would be good for a "good" username, although that can be easily added.

Also, when entering a password, only one star shows for a 4/5 star....but near the end :S

[rootnik]

Does this check our vbulletin option for "username regular expression" while validating the username?