Set Minimum password length

[sonicdriven]

Hopefully someone can help me figure this out..

basically just want to set a minimum password length on the register form.

i added the following to register.php above the check for matching passwords (figured I'd move it to a plugin once I got it working in register.php)

above this

	// check for matching passwords

i added:

PHP Code:

if (strlen($vbulletin->GPC['password'])  < 8)    
        {
        $userdata->error('passwordtooshort');
    } 


but both $vbulletin->GPC['password'] and $_POST['password'] seems to always = 0 when I use strlen()

another example I tried with no success:

PHP Code:

$pwlength = strlen($_POST['password']);

if ($pwlength < 8){
//$userdata->error('passwordtooshort');
echo $pwlength; // always 0 
} 


I'm sure its something simple I'm overlooking, any ideas are appreciated.

PS for version 3.6.8

[Paul M]

The password field would be the cleartext password and afaik is not passed if the MD5 version is available (which is the case in 99.9% of cases) - so it will have a length of zero as it's empty.

[sonicdriven]

Thanks Paul, I guess I'll noodle around and see if I can make the md5 version unavailable.. though it really doesnt sound like a "good" way to do this.

anyone have any better ideas how I can add this simple functionality of minimum password length?