Remove unwanted characters
Do you get members that constantly put random characters in their name just to make their name look all unique? I get the occasional people who put 'Bob & Peter' as their name. I know they are not spam since their website / email seems valid. Sometimes you get teenies putting ~ or ! or just ? in their names. That drives me crazy. So I edited Enth3.1.3 to notify these people that they cannot put these random characters in their names.

Take note that this mod has only been tested on Enth3.1.3 not earlier versions. If you know PHP, you can edit these files pretty easily. The files edited is show_join.php so back it up!

1. Back up show_join.php before going to step 2
2. Look for the following lines in the file:
   // go on if( $_POST['name'] ) $name = ucwords( clean( $_POST['name'] ) ); else $messages['name'] = 'You must enter your name.';
   Beneath that add these lines:
   //ADDED TO INFORM USERS THAT THEY CANT HAVE THE CHARACTER '&' IN THE NAME FIELD if ((substr_count($name, '&')>0) || (substr_count($name, '!')>0) || (substr_count($name, '?')>0) || (substr_count($name, '~')>0)){ $messages['name'] = 'You cannot have any of these characters (~,!,?,&) in your name.'; }
3. If you want to add more characters that you dont want people to put in their names, you can simply either create another line like above or just add these lines right next to (substr_count($name, '~')>0):
   || (substr_count($name, 'CHARACTER IN HERE')>0)
   Just edit the CHARACTER IN HERE with any character.
4. Save show_join.php and if you have any issues/problems please use the contact information in here.

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