Disable charcters in name?

[swiftymcfeat]

I have a game engine which grabs names and passwords from my forum database.

The problem is, my game does not support characters that are not simple letters or numbers. So i was wondering if anyone knows how to disable certain characters when registering, or making it so they can only choose letters and numbers.

thanks
James

[Kill Em All]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=352193.0

[swiftymcfeat]

i have a problem though. I want it to be the opposite way around. I want a rule that states what they CAN use.... Because i JUSt wants letters, numbers, and spaces... NOTHING else, no symbols or foreign letters.

[Kill Em All]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any other methods that would achieve that, you would just have to put every symbol.

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   // Only these characters are permitted.
   if (preg_match('~[<>`~!#$%^*()_-=+•|.,?':{}@&"\'=\\\\]~', preg_replace('~&#(?:\\d{1,7}|x[0-9a-fA-F]{1,6});~', '', $regOptions['username'])) != 0 || $regOptions['username'] == '_' || $regOptions['username'] == '|' || strpos($regOptions['username'], '[code') !== false || strpos($regOptions['username'], '[/code') !== false)
      $reg_errors[] = array('lang', 'error_invalid_characters_username');


I think that would cover the basics.

[kat]

Unless you want to create a big list of censored words...