I'm still a newbie dev in the J! and CB world. The usernames on my website come from members' Xbox Live gamertags (which stupidly allow spaces).
In order to create quick links to certain things, I need to be able to replace the underscores in the usernames (which get inserted in place of spaces upon registration automatically by J!) with the URL space %20 when generated to the profile. I don't want to actually change the usernames in the database or anything of the sort. So for example when outputting a link to the profile through a field: a_gamertag would be changed into a%20gamertag.
Is this possible somehow? A plugin or some kind of regex in a Custom HTML field? I haven't had much luck finding anything through Google. Any guidance is appreciated!
If you're using Joomla 3.3 I believe the username issue with spaces was fixed already (CB was adding the underscores as Joomla would error, this behavior is gone now). It was kind of a oops to implement that and was quickly removed. So it should only be bugged like that for 1 or 2 Joomla releases.
As you're wanting the URL to even conform to the change you have no choice, but to change the stored database value. This can be done with CB 2.0.5 and CB Auto Actions 6.2.1 with a Field action as the new format functions include a replace function, but I strongly advise just updating Joomla so you can have spaces in usernames.
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Ensure you've CB 2.0.5 and Joomla 3.3.6 or Joomla 2.5.28. I've just confirmed spaces in username work fine. So you shouldn't have any issues with this assuming you're up to date. There's no need to configure a complicated auto action for something already supported by the core. You'll of course need to manually fix the existing usernames, but aside from that future usernames shouldn't have any problems.
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