How to autogenerate blogname (url) from Blog Title
The Javascript:
<script type = "text/javascript">
function copyinput()
{
var tmp = document.getElementById('blog_title').value;
tmp = tmp.toLowerCase().replace(/^s+|s+$/g, "").replace(/[_|s]+/g, "");
tmp = tmp.replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "").replace(/[-]+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
document.getElementById('blogname').value = tmp;
}
</script>
The customized function:
function custom_signup_show_blog_form( $blogname = '', $blog_title = '', $errors = '' ) {
global $current_site;
?>
<div id="blog-details-fields">
<label for="blog_title">Blog title</label>
<?php if ( $errmsg = $errors->get_error_message('blog_title') ) { ?>
<p class="error"><?php echo $errmsg ?></p>
<?php }
echo '<input name="blog_title" type="text" id="blog_title" value="'.wp_specialchars($blog_title, 1).'" maxlength="24" onkeyup="copyinput()"/></p>';
// Blog name
if ( 'no' == constant( "VHOST" ) )
echo '<label for="blogname">' . __('Blog Name:', 'buddypress') . '</label>';
else
echo '<label for="blogname">' . __('Blog Domain:', 'buddypress') . '</label>';
if ( $errmsg = $errors->get_error_message('blogname') ) { ?>
<p class="error"><?php echo $errmsg ?></p>
<?php }
if ( 'no' == constant( "VHOST" ) ) {
echo '<span class="prefix_address">' . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path . '</span><input name="blogname" type="text" id="blogname" value="'.$blogname.'" maxlength="50" /><br />';
} else {
echo '<input name="blogname" type="text" id="blogname" value="'.$blogname.'" maxlength="50" /><span class="suffix_address">.' . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path . '</span><br />';
}
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo '<p class="help-text">';
print '(<strong>' . __( 'Your address will be ', 'buddypress' );
if( 'no' == constant( "VHOST" ) ) {
print $current_site->domain . $current_site->path . __( 'blogname', 'buddypress' );
} else {
print __( 'domain.', 'buddypress' ) . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path;
}
echo '</strong>. ' . __( 'Must be at least 4 characters, letters and numbers only. It cannot be changed so choose carefully!)', 'buddypress' ) . '</p>';
echo '</p>';
}
?>
<p>
<label for="blog_public_on"><?php _e( 'I would like my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati, and in public listings around this site.', 'buddypress' ); ?> </label>
<label class="checkbox" for="blog_public_on">
<input type="radio" id="blog_public_on" name="blog_public" value="1" <?php if( !isset( $_POST['blog_public'] ) || '1' == $_POST['blog_public'] ) { ?>checked="checked"<?php } ?> />
<?php _e( 'Yes', 'buddypress' ); ?>
</label>
<label class="checkbox" for="blog_public_off">
<input type="radio" id="blog_public_off" name="blog_public" value="0" <?php if( isset( $_POST['blog_public'] ) && '0' == $_POST['blog_public'] ) { ?>checked="checked"<?php } ?> />
<?php _e( 'No', 'buddypress' ); ?>
</label>
</p>
</div>
<?php
do_action('signup_blogform', $errors);
}
What this does:
When the user starts typing the blog title - limited to 24 chars - the Javascript dynamically fills in the blogname for the URL, lowercased and sanitized.
The user can manually change the blogname if he/she wants. Not sure how that would work out... You could prevent that by making the blogname input field 'readonly'.
You could probably also hide the blogname field, either through type="hidden" or CSS. Haven't tested all these options yet.
This same solution could probably be used to generate the username from the Real Name on the main registration form.
sticky
not a support question
