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I’m running EE 2.1 and I’m not able to register any members that have more than 32 characters in their username. I tried doing this by physically going into cPanel and then registering the member manually.

Where do I adjust the settings to increase the maximum number of character within EE? I’ve tried searching for both solutions but the recent suggestions are almost 2 years old - and the files it mentions don’t exist in EE 2.X

Thanks,

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Hi, Danny. Making that change would involve hacking EE core files. So I’m going to move this over to the CodeShare Corner for additional community support.

This would also make a great Feature Request. Is there a particular business reason you need 150 characters?

Anyone have suggestions? Not sure what you mean by more than 150 characters, the limitation I’m having is 32 characters… the reason is that we are using email addresses for usernames instead of regular usernames.

Thanks, any help is appreciated.

Hi Danny,

Did you have any luck with this? I’m looking to use emails as usernames too.
I am getting an error too.
“The name you submitted may only contain alpha-numeric characters, underscores, and dashes”

Does this mean we can’t use ‘@’ in a username?

Thanks

Any luck with this?

I’ve come across another thread that said to modify validate.php in system/expressionengine/libraries but the default was already at 50, no matter what this number changes to it doesn’t change anything. I’ve also looked in the database tables and the value’s are set to 50.

This occurs when I try to register a user manually in the backend.

I noticed on an archived thread, that Robin posted a fix for the username but that was prior to ee2.0.

Ah- the backend control panel member area?  Is handled by system/cp files- in the case of registering a new member through the backend, it’s handled by system/cp/cp.member.php- the new_member_profile_form() function.  Around line 2493, it looks like:

$r .= $DSP->itemgroup(
                                $DSP->required().NBS.$LANG->line('username', 'username'),
                                $DSP->input_text('username', '', '35', '32', 'input', '300px')

Anyone have a similar fix for adding users through the CP on 2.x? I think this is where we’re having an issue with and cant find a solution.

Three relevent things for the username:

1. text input maxlength is set to 32
2. EE username validation disallows valid email characters
3. exp_members database table username field size is set to max 50 characters.

The proper way to handle all these thing is to create an extension. During activation, the extension would alter the exp_members table to increase the size of the username field. The extension would use the member_member_register_start hook to circumvent EE registration and thereby prevent username validation. The extension would also use the cp_js_end hook to allow some javascript to increase the maxlength of the username text input.

Of course, you could just hack EE files and the database to do all these things.

Finally figured out a hack if anyone wants to do it - takes a quick minute to do:

1: Edit DB table exp_members - change username’s type to the # of chars you’re wanting.
2: Edit /system/expressionengine/libraries/EE_Form_Validation.php line #134 to the same #. <—This was the tricker.. I couldn’t locate the right file but finally did.

Just take some pre-caution like backing up that table in case of anything.

I’ve edited EE_Form_Validation.php and changed the database table but I’m still not able to register people with an email address longer than 50 characters. Is there any other place EE checks for the length of the username or email? I’m using the Simple Registration addon from Addon Bakery to handle registrations. (http://www.addonbakery.com/docs/expressionengine/Simple_Registration_for_ExpressionEngine.html)

I was able to fix the problem by also changing the 50 character limit in /system/expressionengine/libaries/Validation.php. Didn’t know that EE checked username length in two places.

Thanks Jan, I haven’t had to modify the username length anymore - it was just that 1 client we worked on.

What version of EE are you using, so future people can know what to look for?

That site runs on EE 2.1.3, but I think the trick should work on all newer versions too.