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    Posted by jantamas posts: 4 Czech Republic

    Hello, i just installed Tiki 1.8.4 and I was very happy with it, until I helped my friend to register and discovered that when using the "register" link provided with the login module, it's impossible to enter a username such as "John Smith", because it contains a space (I get the "White space not allowed in usernames" error message).
    However, for our site it is crucial for users to be able to have their full names listed as usernames. Is there some solution to this? (besides creating the users with the admin privileges using the back-end - that script doesn't mind the space and creates such users with no problems.)
    Thanks a lot. I hope I'll be able to overcome this difficulty and be happy about Tiki again! 😊
    Jan

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    Posted by Billy posts: 104 United States

    I use a space in my user name "Billy Jack"
    I am using 1.8.4 upgraded from 1.7.8.

    Posted by jantamas posts: 4 Czech Republic

    But did you register using the front-end "Register" link, or did you register when logged in as Admin and then creating an account in the back-end? Because the back-end doesn't have a problem with spaces, the front-end does (at least for me).
    Thanks.


    Posted by Xavi (as xavidp - admin) posts: 957

    We solved that with 1.8.4 using Name.Surname , avoiding the space but including name and surnames of our students in class. However, this solution is bad for linking easily to userpage: UserPageName.Surname gives some problems...

    On the contrary, if you tell them to register as Name_Surname, no troubles at all anywere... 😊

    Cheers, Xavi


    Posted by Amedee Van Gasse posts: 59 Belgium

    I'd try to avoid spaces in any case, front or backend.
    Use the underscore suggestion.