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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.

The user can manually change the blogname if he/she wants. Not sure how that would work out…

You could probably also hide the blogname field, either through type=”hidden” or CSS. Haven’t tested all these options yet.

But imho this looks like a very versatile solution.

Or have I overlooked some critical issues? Comments very much appreciated!

Paul,

The URL where I’m testing the BP is http:// mysupport.byethost13.com it is shared hosting where each subdomain that belongs to my account looks like root. All root files must be uploaded into \htdocs folder that pretends to be root.

Once installed, only the core Blog is fully available. Users (user1, user2) have created their blog(s). Posts are accessible by Site Wide Activity/Wires but no permalinks expect the main blog are accessible. Thus no user nor admin personal blogs (comments) aren’t accessible.

My hosting program allows the .htaccess. The links to the missing elements seems to be OK. It properly generates addresses like http://mysupport.byethost13.com/personal/2009/08/27/hello-world-2/ but it is empty.

The /wp-content/blogs.dir contains strange sub-folder structure

/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/2(4) where two and four is a Id of users that have

uploaded their avatar. Gods know what does it mean the 1 in the root.

For testing purposes I have created your account (Id 4) JDPaul/password. I just wanted to test the BP abbility to access/write the folder. Avatar was uploaded.

My conclusion:

1) BP is talsk to MySql

2) tld/blog works as expected

3) All site.tld/users links + site.tld/groups seems to be fine

4) At least part of the BP code can write the blogs.dir folder

5) For some reason site others blog permalinks site.tld/user1, site.tld/user2, site.tld/personal do not work.

Please feel free to log-in and play. I believe we both need a computer aided check list

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?

WordPress MU 2.8.4.

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?

directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

root as much it can be on shared host

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?

no

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?

there was no trafic

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?

BP 1.0.3

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

no

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

no

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

standard – works fine

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

no

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

no

12. If running bbPress, which version?

not yet

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.