Thread: Nickname Accepts '

Nicknames in v4.1.0 (this was an upgrade using aeWebWorks upgrade script) accept ' characters - this will cause database insert errors later when notification emails are sent out (when they are inserted into the database)

Smoge

what would work better is if a member can make their nickname into two words. ie, fun lover .......

is there any way this can be done ????

Originally Posted by driver_x

what would work better is if a member can make their nickname into two words. ie, fun lover .......

is there any way this can be done ????

You can do this - by editing the preg_match in the database that checks the Username field - but this will break mod_rewrite for profile views (if I am not mistaken) unless you also deal with that in that code.

Smoge

i think i may have found another way. if i create another field in profiles like "screen name" and can use that and change the nickname to "url" instead then i can achieve all but seeing as though i have a few thousnd members i would need to populate the new "screen name" field with the existing nicknames. would that work ?

and how the hell do populate the new field with the existing nicknames?

You need to be careful when renaming standard field names... many of them are hard coded and if you change the names you will break things.

You should create a new field for this purpose - as for populating it - you would normally write a script or include the code (write a function) that updates this value when changed/added/etc.... you more or less select the info you want, stick it in variables, and then do a update of the database with the combined info you want.... this would be the easy way without a lot of other changes required to the code.

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