How to remove username validation?

djangonz

Vanilla Forums won't allow Asian characters to be part of a username.

How can I remove this restriction/validation?

Any help is very much appreciated.

hgtonight

Welcome to the community!

You can change the validation regular expression by adding the following to your /conf/config.php file.

$Configuration['Garden']['User']['ValidationRegex] = '\p{L}';

Change the right side to what ever you would like.

Shadowdare

Add this in the /conf/config.php file (replace the right side to the following if the setting already exists):

$Configuration['Garden']['User']['ValidationRegex'] = '\\d\\w_\\x{0800}-\\x{9fa5}';

This allows alphanumeric input, underscores, and Chinese characters for registration.

djangonz

Thank you for the quick response. Problem solved.

@Shadowdare said:
Add this in the /conf/config.php file (replace the right side to the following if the setting already exists):

$Configuration['Garden']['User']['ValidationRegex'] = '\\d\\w_\\x{0800}-\\x{9fa5}';

This allows alphanumeric input, underscores, and Chinese characters for registration.

R_J

I guess you might face another problem soon: @mentions not working with all user name. Before you ask, I'd like to point you to the only universally useful addon I've ever written http://vanillaforums.org/addon/mentionsplus-plugin

djangonz

Thanks for the reminder, R_J. @mentions now works like a breeze.