Hello David,

Please refer to the thread at http://stackideas.com/forums/small-issues-and-requests-for-es-1-2#reply-138429

Hi Mark,

I read the post but in it you did not answer the last question which was, will you allow spacing in a username or not?

We are still considering this.

ok!

Thanks

I just tested that both the latest versions of Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.2 allow username spaces. We already knew about J 3.2, but now it's confirmed in J 2.5 which is great news! (no switches have to be made to enable this) Considering that we do not have a CMS constraint for the username space, I don't see why not to allow a username space.

Great to hear. We appreciate this.

Thanks

Hi,

To be honest with you all, judging from the core codes in Joomla, seems like Joomla 2.5 actually intended to NOT HAVE spaces in the username. It is just that, there is a bug in their "regex" checking that didn't check for spaces in username, in which I am passing it off as a bug, and assuming that they've fixed it in 3.2.0, since 3.2.0 was the first build that actually didn't allow spaces in username.

And it has come to my attention that, they, once again, changed it in 3.2.1 (including the commentary in the core codes) to allow spaces.

And as such, we will be patching this on our part to allow spaces in the username in the next release.

Whew, that makes sense. Thanks for investigating this Jason. I appreciate the integrity of you folks wanting to stick with Joomla's standards. Glad to hear about this being included within the next release.

Hi,

If you'd like you can try this now by replacing this file I've uploaded at /media/com_easysocial/apps/fields/user/joomla_username/helper.php. This will allow spaces in username.

You the man Jason! The mod you provided works. As always it goes greatly appreciated (more than just casual appreciation).

Thanks for sharing, glad that your issues are resolved now.