User signed up with the same username as a pre-existing account

[mentalrz]

Hi,

A person has signed up my forum and has been able to use the exact same name as myself , there are no spaces within this persons name so I'm unsure how its done and how to fix exactly.

Help appreciated.

Duplicate; http://forum.ragezone.com/members/841406.html
Real; http://forum.ragezone.com/members/1.html

[Zachery]

Their username is not the same as the first ones, check phpmyadmin or another db tool and see how their username is stored. They're either using non default ascii characters that look the same and are not, or using a hidden non display characters. I tried to sift though the html, but since vBSEO compresses the output its pretty much a pita to read though.

[mentalrz]

Their username is not the same as the first ones, check phpmyadmin or another db tool and see how their username is stored. They're either using non default ascii characters that look the same and are not, or using a hidden non display characters. I tried to sift though the html, but since vBSEO compresses the output its pretty much a pita to read though.

"M*enta*L"

Its appearing like that when I click advance but its not storing like it.

[Zachery]

They're using special characters then. Your browser isn't showing them.

[mentalrz]

Ah yes, using Western displays them.
MÂ*entaÂ*L

[Zachery]

You can use the regex on usernames that register to only allow spaces, a-Z

^[A-Z0-9 ]+$ - Alphanumeric characters including space

AdminCP > Settings > Options > User Registration Options > Username Regular Expression >

[mentalrz]

Thanks.