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WP 2.9.2 (not MU) + BP 1.2

Some quirky problem around user names.

We’re using Simple LDAP plugin and user IDs are therefore being set from our AD, which has a standard format

FirstName.Lastname

I noticed that the URLs of BP profile pages were being generated wrongly. Instead of

members/FirstName.LastName

it was replacing the full-stop with a space, so

members/FirstName LastName

naturally didn’t work in a HREF

However hacking the URL in the location bar to

members/FirstName%20LastName

did arrive at the intended profile page.

We couldn’t work out exactly how BP was handling this sanitizing of usernames, but a quick

s/ /./

in bp_core_get_user_domain did the trick and now the links work fine.

This hack isn’t ideal, of course. Another side effect, probably related, is that @mentions also don’t seem to work. The ‘unique identifier’ specified by BP also contains a space:

@Firstname Lastname is a unique identifier for …

Naturally with the space in it, it isn’t, and of course @mentions in BP updates don’t work.

Thoughts?