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]

Originally Posted by Darkstarproject

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

What exactly do you suggest? What is "good" username?

Originally Posted by rootnik

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

Yes, VBulletin internal routines are used for validation.

Originally Posted by ecihanuysal

character problem still exists.. uninstalled..

Does your forum use UTF encoding?

Originally Posted by Stifmeister2

Does this work for 3.6.x ?

Never tested, but it should work.

[Bombowiec89]

Errors database throws

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]:
Unknown MySQL server host 'sql.xxxx.xx' (2)
/home/css/ftp/forumss/includes/class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error   : 
Error Number  : 
Request Date  : Wednesday, June 11th 2008 @ 11:10:59 AM
Error Date    : Wednesday, June 11th 2008 @ 11:11:39 AM
Script        : http://xxxxx.xx/showthread.php?p=16547
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Username      : 
Classname     : vb_database
MySQL Version : 


[FractalizeR]

My hack does not use database. Please look to the VBulletin message with attention before posting it to forum...

[Arbit3r]

1.1 looking good great work, Iv attached some files of another mod i realy like so you can see what they have done.

[skariko]

I have updated but when i click on the image near the password it shows me a popup with a blank page.

[FractalizeR]

Which browser is that? I tested on latest FireFox 2 and IE7 - all works fine. Have you unpacked ALL files from archive to the forum root directory?

[testebr]

Change to Yahoo UI! Why? Because vbulletin load it by default.

[FractalizeR]

I don't use Yahoo UI.

[skariko]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Which browser is that? I tested on latest FireFox 2 and IE7 - all works fine. Have you unpacked ALL files from archive to the forum root directory?

With FFX 3.0 (RC2) and IE7.
I had re-download, re-extract all the files and i have re-upload the .xml file but it is always blank

You can see it here:
http://www.czeta.it/forum/register.php

[abrecher]

Where is password suggestor located ?