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/me bug by Choli on 07-02-2004 at 10:48 PM
Look at |/|artij||'s reply to Abubu. =|. |\/|artij|\| used the /me thing but instead of
* |\/|artij|\| bla bla bla
MyBB puts
* |/|artij|| bla bla bla
ie: without the backslashes ( \ ). I think it's a PHP bug. I think that the sames happens with /slap
edit:
the [post] tag seems to have the same bug (3rd word of this post). maybe the [thread]one too.
RE: /me bug by user27089 on 07-02-2004 at 10:52 PM
* user27089 >|/\|traxor|/\|<
what i typed:
RE: /me bug by Choli on 07-02-2004 at 10:56 PM
quote:the bug only happens when backslashes ( \ ) are in the nick.
Originally posted by traxor
* traxor >|/\|traxor|/\|<
what i typed:
RE: /me bug by .blade// on 07-02-2004 at 10:57 PM
It's been said before, but I'll say it again...that's what happens when you allow dodgy characters in users' names...
RE: /me bug by GiantSpider on 07-03-2004 at 09:40 AM
I backslash is hardly a dodgy character.
RE: /me bug by surfichris on 07-03-2004 at 09:47 AM
It is a dodgy character and thats why in RC3 it has been disallowed for nickname registrations.
RE: /me bug by user27089 on 07-03-2004 at 10:39 AM
quote:no wonder i couldn't make a new user to test this out..
Originally posted by Chris Boulton
It is a dodgy character and thats why in RC3 it has been disallowed for nickname registrations.
RE: /me bug by Wabz on 07-03-2004 at 10:35 PM
quote:
Originally posted by traxor
quote:no wonder i couldn't make a new user to test this out..
Originally posted by Chris Boulton
It is a dodgy character and thats why in RC3 it has been disallowed for nickname registrations.
This board only uses RC2 WDZ needs to adapt the board to include all his special features
RE: /me bug by fluffy_lobster on 07-05-2004 at 10:10 AM
surely banning the character is just the lazy way out... php can easily handle names with slashes in the right way... in this case it looks like an addslashes is needed somewhere along the line; not too demanding is it?
RE: /me bug by Choli on 07-05-2004 at 02:20 PM
quote:yes, but however i agree that some characters shouldn't be allowed in nicks.
Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
surely banning the character is just the lazy way out...
quote:haha, of course not, but our lazy admin has better things to do (
Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
not too demanding is it?
), instead of fixing it 
RE: /me bug by musicalmidget on 07-05-2004 at 07:39 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Choli
quote:yes, but however i agree that some characters shouldn't be allowed in nicks.
Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
surely banning the character is just the lazy way out...
Yeah, I think that's more of a personal preference thing, but I agree that such characters aren't really necessarry in usernames.
RE: /me bug by Choli on 07-05-2004 at 07:57 PM
this is a bit offtopic, but i think it's related to the discussion here:
IMO, nick names should:
- Begin with a non-space character (maybe only with a letter or digit
- Contain only (english) letters (A..Z, a..z), digits (0..9) and a very reduced set of signs (maybe only these: +-_.,
- Be at least 2 characters long (maybe only 1? that's weird for a nick)
- Have no more than X characters (where X = 20? 25? 30?)
- Have at least one space every X characters (X = 10?), to avoid that long nicks mess the layout of the forums (for example that PiratesOfTheCaribbean (no offence, fraisie))
- Not have 2 or more spaces one next to the other, to not confuse "This is my nick" with "This is my nick")
- and, of course, the nicks would be stored case sensitive, but there wouldn't be 2 users with the same nick without caring about the case (<- thi is like it's now)