[SOLVED] Front End Usernames and spaces

[michaelwalker]

Using CMSMS 1.8.1 and FEU 1.12 with the self-reg module 1.6.1

I notice that, although back-end users of CMS can have spaces in their usernames (e.g. John Smith), Front End Users cannot and I wonder if there is some particular reason for this, or whether it can be somehow got round.  Reason is, I am hoping to import c. 300 users from another DB and many of them have spaces in their existing usernames.  I would prefer it if I did not need to alter everyone's username and then have to go through the pain of explaining it all to them.

TIA

[michaelwalker]

That's very helpful - thanks for your prompt reply!

[jmcgin51]

what reply??  I'm assuming you got an answer, but I don't see any posts in this thread other than your own.

[michaelwalker]

Weird!  There was definitley a reply - and it worked too!  Maybe the poster (someone called 'mebots') deleted it for some reason?

[jmcgin51]

I'm guessing he posted a code hack, and it was removed by a moderator...

[michaelwalker]

Possibly - although it was a very minor hack and doesn't seem to have affected the usability of the module in anyway that I can observe.  I shan't re-post it in case that gets deleted too 

[mebots]

Nope guys never delete it

Think also that the moderator saw it as a module hack.

Martijn