Email as Username Help

So far I'm loving amember.

I've gone through the changes found in this forum to allow the username to be an email address, but need to modify it slightly to allow a period in the email address as when someone tries to register with an email address like firstname.lastname@server.com it tells them there is an invalid character in their username.

I'm just assuming it's the period it's complaining about.

The changes I made are here: http://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7480&highlight=email username&page=2

I think I might need to modify the getLoginRegex which I assume is the validation of the username???? I am really terrible at regular expressions, so can anyone help me out with what changes I might need to make?

Thanks!

goldseal

actually, it could be a dash too after the @ that could be the invalid character.

I just don't know enough about regular expressions to correct it.

Any regular expression guru's out there?

I've figured it out.

I just added a /- after each part of the regular expression and that seemed to fix it.

PM me if anyone wants the exact code.

Complete regular expression for getLoginRegex

Does anyone have the complete regular expression for getLoginRegex that allows for email addressen containing ".", and checks for the dash after the "@" sign?

Thanks in advance!

Andah... the answer!!!

Never mind. I found a good online regex tester so I was able to answer my own question.
In case others have the need to accept email adresses for usernames, here's the correct regex:

Code:

/^[^\W][a-zA-Z0-9_.]+([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+)*\@[a-zA-Z0-9.]+([a-zA-Z0-9.]+)*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/

This regex allows for "-" and "." in the mailbox part (the part in front of the '@'), and "." in the domain part (the part after the '@').

FrostyX

yeah, it's just the regex that throws some of these emails out as unacceptable.

maybe I should post the one I found worked wonders with some of the weird emails that people were trying to sign up with and the one above would choke on...

try this too:

Code:

/^(([A-Za-z0-9]+_+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\-+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\.+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\++))*[A-Za-z0-9]+@((\w+\-+)|(\w+\.))*\w{1,63}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/