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ValidateUsername problem Vanilla 2.0.18.8 and php 5.3.23 ?
Hi,
I ran into a problem with php 5.3.23 and Vanilla Forums 2.0.18.8. Upon registration, users would get the error:
Username can only contain letters, numbers, underscores, and must be between 3 and 20 characters long.
regardless of whether they submitted a valid username or not. I found that the regex for validating usernames was having a problem:
/^([\d\w_]{3,20})?$/siu
produced the warning:
PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: unknown option bit(s) set at offset 0
and $Matches would be NULL.
It looks like it was the u bit that was causing the problem.
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I haven't run into this issue on xampp my webhost.
The
uoption turns on additional functionality of PCRE that is incompatible with Perl. Pattern strings are treated as UTF-8. This modifier is available from PHP 4.1.0 or greater on Unix and from PHP 4.2.3 on win32. UTF-8 validity of the pattern is checked since PHP 4.3.5.Source.
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