Is the VB Chat turned OFF??

[David Copeland]

I went to www.vbulletin.org and click on the upper right link tiltled CHAT. The applet loaded, and although I was logged in with my user name showng, inside the chat box it said:

Looking up your hostname

Found your hostname (cache)

That nickname is erroneus. Enter another one.

[Ramsesx]

I tried, no problem (from germany)

[Brad]

Sounds like your username doesn't play well with the irc server. If you get that error type "/nick nicknamehere" (without the quotes, replace nicknamehere with the nick you want to use).

[Club3G]

I use the same Chat, and on my IRC server (EFNet) from what I can tell names with spaces aren't allowed. The applet is setting your nick as "David Copeland", which is why it's bouncing you.

Brad, if you come up with a way to truncate spaces, I'd be mucho appreciative of seeing how you do it.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Club3G

Brad, if you come up with a way to truncate spaces, I'd be mucho appreciative of seeing how you do it.

If you mean to remove spaces inside names, you could use simply:

PHP Code:

$name = str_replace(" ", "", $name); 


[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

If you mean to remove spaces inside names, you could use simply:

PHP Code:

$name = str_replace(" ", "", $name); 


Darn I got beat to it lol.

[Club3G]

Aah, outstanding, thanks. I've no idea how to get php to actually pull the vb name variable and stuff it into $name, but I'll look into doing it.

(Sorry for turning this into an impromptu quick hack support discussion, lol)

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

If you mean to remove spaces inside names, you could use simply:

PHP Code:

$name = str_replace(" ", "", $name); 


Or better yet

PHP Code:

$name = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-_`\[\]]/i', '', $name); 


[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Or better yet

PHP Code:

$name = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-_`\[\]]/i', '', $name); 


Ahh those regular expressions... They are too difficult

[Brad]

At first yes, but once you get the hang of them they become very powerful.