Hi,

I have gotten many feedbacks on that people want to have theyre username in uppercase when registering. How do i remove this check on the registration? I am using usernames only on my site and firstname and lastname only on profiles.

[@johnnyav Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

Any tips guys? Dont need any advanced fix. I can comment out that security check if i only knew where to look. I really need this fixed This is the first system ever that requires usernames in lowercase.

[@philohagen Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

I have a user trying to register saying: “Uh! I keep getting a message that no upper case letters are allowed…and none of my letters are upper case… ?????” She can’t get in.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

It’s because the registration function [bp_core_validate_user_signup()] only looks for lowercase usernames.

A ticket has been filed for this already:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2207

[@leroy12 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Could anyone explain why BuddyPress forces username to be in lowercase / numbers only? When creating WordPress users, we can add uppercase, hyphens… So why does BuddyPress have this limitation, and how can it be removed?
Thks

[@crashutah Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@Leroy12
JJJ commented on the trac ticket. You might check it out. I know that WordPress use to allow and even check for the uppercase. Although, I just tried and it’s no longer worrying about case it seems. Maybe you could look into it more and update the trac ticket as well.

[@hkcharlie Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

So with reference to the last entry on this link https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2207

Has anyone managed to use uppercase usernames?

[@tigerseo Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

You can try this plugin, it works perfectly for me : http://code.google.com/p/l10n-ru/downloads/detail?name=allow-capital-letters-in-username.0.1.zip&can=2&q=

[@pabloroboto Member 14 years ago]

tigerseo — thanks for the link .. worked.

[@kitezh Participant 14 years ago]

Does anyone know what you do with Sergey’s php file?

[@stwc Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

Drop it in your plugins dir, network activate it from the dashboard. Doesn’t work for me because I’m also using BP Xtra Signup. That can be rectified (and I hope without blowing up the database) by editing line of 298 (current version as of Jan 2011) of bpxs-core.php in BP Xtra signup from

`preg_match( “/[a-z0-9]+/”, $user_name, $maybe );`
to
`preg_match( “/[A-Za-z0-9]+/”, $user_name, $maybe );`

[@wpfreak321 Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

Thank you for your plugin, it works for me, but i can´t change (crop) avatar – no thumbnail to show after upload.