User names beginning with letter

[Mum]

I have members with user names starting with numbers, or ~ or that sort of thing. I'd like to make it so that it MUST start with a letter when they register. How can i do this?

[Mum]

Bumping this hoping someone can help?

[webmazter]

you will have to add a preg_match() to validate the username.

[Mum]

I'm sorry i'm a newbie, that means nothing at all to me. Could you explain more?

[Adrian Schneider]

Go to your AdminCP > User Registration Options, and enter this value for "Username Regular Expression"

^([a-z])(.*)$

[Nathan2006]

I still use this mod

Restrict usernames to alphanumeric and underscore

Plus its a nice plugin

[Mum]

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

Go to your AdminCP > User Registration Options, and enter this value for "Username Regular Expression"

^([a-z])(.*)$

Does that just stop anything except letters at the beginning? They can use them elsewhere, just not at the start of the name?

Originally Posted by Nathan2006

I still use this mod

Restrict usernames to alphanumeric and underscore

Plus its a nice plugin

Thanks Nathan, that doesn't appear to do quite what i want, as i want it to stop anything but letters at just the beginning.

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by Mum

Does that just stop anything except letters at the beginning? They can use them elsewhere, just not at the start of the name?

Yeah - just the first character.

[giotmuadong]

great tips, thanks