XF 1.3 Allowable Usernames

[Floyd R Turbo]

I am working on a conversion, and the source database has both a "username" and a "displayname" field. I am being told by the coders that the "displayname" field cannot be used because of disallowed characters in some usernames, so instead, the "username" field was used. I can easily change this, but I am curious as to what characters are not allowed in XF by default?

 

[Amaury]

The only character I know of that can't be used in a username is the comma.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

@Kier @Mike do you know of any disallowed username characters, other than the comma? Things like - = + & * # etc?

 

[Mike]

Usernames can't "look like" an email either, but the characters you list are fine.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

Thanks @Mike for the reply. The converter company seemed to think that XF wouldn't allow a certain subset of characters but I could never get out of him exactly which characters caused issues, because that would be easy to change.

So:

no comma
can't look like an e-mail address, i.e. thisguy@twothumbs.com

everything else works?

 

[Mike]

In general, that's correct.