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Restricting special characters in usernames

  • Vorak
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7 years 4 months ago #296842 by Vorak
Hello,

I would like to restrict the characters for usernames to only to letters (lowercase and uppercase) and numbers, and no other characters. In another topic (in which I replied but somehow my reply always disappears again), I read the suggestion for the Perl Regular Expression code input to be: /[a-zA-Z0-9]*/

Is that still the best code for what I need it? The reason why I ask, is because the tooltip for that setting says instead:

only a-z + A-Z + digits: /^[0-9a-z]*$/i

But it seems confusing, because the recommendation of the tooltip doesn't mention capital A-Z while according to its recommendation, that is included. So I wanted ask just to be sure.

Thanks.

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7 years 4 months ago #296843 by krileon
Replied by krileon on topic Restricting special characters in usernames
I've already replied to your below topic regarding this, which was moved to a new topic since you replied to a 4 year old topic.

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/237269-how-to-restrict-user-name-fields#296740


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7 years 4 months ago #296844 by Vorak
I'm sorry, I didn't know, I only saw that my post disappear and I didn't think of looking for new topics :)

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