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allowing hyphens in blog names

I am able to add hyphens when I create a new blog from the admin, but I notice this can not be done when someone signs up, same is true with capital letters. Not so concerned about the capital letters, but is there a simple solution to allow new signups the option to use hyphens in their blog name?

thanks for any input.

Tony V

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 5:51:04
  • TonyV
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Thanks Andrew,

    looks like a basket of words to me. I have this;

    if ( empty( $user_name ) )

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“Please enter a username”:wink:);

    $maybe = array();

    preg_match( “/[a-z0-9]+/”, $user_name, $maybe );

    if( $user_name != $maybe[0] ) {

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“Only lowercase letters and numbers allowed”:wink:);

    }

    $illegal_names = get_site_option( “illegal_names” );

    if( is_array( $illegal_names ) == false ) {

    $illegal_names = array( “www”, “web”, “root”, “admin”, “main”, “invite”, “administrator” );

    add_site_option( “illegal_names”, $illegal_names );

    }

    if( in_array( $user_name, $illegal_names ) == true ) {

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“That username is not allowed”:wink:);

    }

    if( is_email_address_unsafe( $user_email ) )

    $errors->add(‘user_email’, __(“You cannot use that email address to signup. We are having problems with them blocking some of our email. Please use another email provider.”:wink:);

    if( strlen( $user_name ) < 4 ) {

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“Username must be at least 4 characters”:wink:);

    }

    if ( strpos( ” ” . $user_name, “_” ) != false )

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“Sorry, usernames may not contain the character ‘_’!”:wink:);

    // all numeric?

    $match = array();

    preg_match( ‘/[0-9]*/’, $user_name, $match );

    if ( $match[0] == $user_name )

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“Sorry, usernames must have letters too!”:wink:);

    if ( !is_email( $user_email ) )

    $errors->add(‘user_email’, __(“Please enter a correct email address”:wink:);

    if ( !validate_email( $user_email ) )

    $errors->add(‘user_email’, __(“Please check your email address.”:wink:);

    $limited_email_domains = get_site_option( ‘limited_email_domains’ );

    if ( is_array( $limited_email_domains ) && empty( $limited_email_domains ) == false ) {

    $emaildomain = substr( $user_email, 1 + strpos( $user_email, ‘@’ ) );

    if( in_array( $emaildomain, $limited_email_domains ) == false ) {

    $errors->add(‘user_email’, __(“Sorry, that email address is not allowed!”:wink:);

    }

    }

    // Check if the username has been used already.

    if ( username_exists($user_name) )

    $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(“Sorry, that username already exists!”:wink:);

    // Check if the email address has been used already.

    if ( email_exists($user_email) )

    $errors->add(‘user_email’, __(“Sorry, that email address is already used!”:wink:);

    can you give me a hint which I should edit to allow for hyphen only, not under scores just –

    thanks for any help.

    Tony V

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Oops, I actually gave you the wrong lines. For the blog names the lines are 989-1040.

    You would need to modify this bit(ln 1000):

    preg_match( “/[a-z0-9]+/”, $blogname, $maybe );

    Unfortunately that’s regular expression fun which I *really* don’t care for. You’ll need to do a google search to read up on it a bit.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • TonyV
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    in case someone finds this I should point out all I did was add the hyphen after the 9 so on line 1000 instead of;

    preg_match( “/[a-z0-9]+/”, $blogname, $maybe );

    if( $blogname != $maybe[0] ) {

    I got

    preg_match( “/[a-z0-9-]+/”, $blogname, $maybe );

    if( $blogname != $maybe[0] ) {

    works great :slight_smile:

    Tony V