eMember Usernames letters and/or numbers only?

[lazzadimala]

Is there a way to change the username requirements so you can not put any special characters in it? We would like the emember usernames to only contain Letters and/or Numbers.

Thanks

[admin]

By default, eMember’s username field only allows letter, number and underscore. So your user’s can’t enter special characters anyway.

[lazzadimala]

Thanks so much for getting back so fast! I did test this and it allowed me to put @, & and * in the username.

[admin]

Was that in the admin dashboard side or the registration form that your members will use?

[lazzadimala]

Membership form.

I greatly appreciate your help.

[admin]

We made some improvements in the validation script which should work better. Please do the following:

1. Deactivate and delete the currently installed version of the plugin(s).

2. Download a fresh build of the plugin(s) from here:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/update-request

3. Upload and activate this version of the plugin(s).

Now test it out.

[lazzadimala]

I’ve sent in the request. Thank you so much! I greatly appreciate your help in this matter.

[lazzadimala]

This works perfectly! Thank you.

[Conrad Farlow]

Conversely I want new users to enter their First and Last name as their username. This requires a whitespace. As I intend moving this plugin to a site with a forum with 350 members who have done exactly that this is a real pain.

John Doe is much better for me than John_Doe, is there any way that I can allow whitespace?

Regards

Conrad

[Conrad Farlow]

Would I better asking this question on a different thread as I am actually asking for the opposite of what the original thread starter was? I am concious that one day someone else may want to find the answer to my question.

[admin]

We don’t recommend you to change this but if you are an expert developer then you can use the tweak/modification mentioned here to achieve what you are after:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/spaces-hyphens-and-commas-in-username

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