Username contains illegal characters! problem

[zolee1]

Hi,

I tried to install version 1.1.2. On the second page I keep getting the "Username contains illegal characters!" message. The username I am tiring to use is amvir2_cmsuser
I assume based on the regex in CMSInstaller.class.php that the _ is the problem, but not sure why. It should be a legal character on a database user name.

I am using cPanel, and it automatically ads a prefix amvir2_ to the username.

I tried changing the regex to the following /^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\_]+$/ but it did not help.
Is there another file I would need to change?
Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks,

Z-

[chrisl]

You could try

"/^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/"

this is untried and not tested but should work although I'm not sure if there would be any subsequent problems.

[zolee1]

Thanks,

It turned out that mine regex was correct, I just didn't realize that I did not upload the modified file, becuase I installed it through SSH, and I didn't change the user privilege.

Anyhow, I would recommend changing the CMSInstaller.class.php line 163 to

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else if ( !preg_match( "/^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\_]+$/", trim($_POST['adminusername']) ) )

so it accepts the _ character.