My site: phpbb3 issues

[ZerBox]

I want to thank Marius for all his work on the jfusion bridge, and therefore I will use my site to give feedback on how the bridge works on a site with 26.000 users. I will update this post when I find new issues that may be related to jfusion.

Here is my list of issues:
1. Lots of users complaining they cant login, but I have figured out that they are typing their username with small characters, as they can do in phpbb3. Is it possible to get jfusion on Joomla-site to accept small characters even if the username is registered with the first character as a large one. So if my username is "Petter", it would be possible for me to login with "petter".

2. Sometimes I experience the loginbox showing "Welcome, XXX", where XXX is a different username than I actually logged in as earlier. So my login has switched over to another user than m own. I dont know what causing this problem, but I will (as told you Marius) send you a copy of my session-table when it happens next time. The problem is that I dont experience it often myself, but get some reports from other users sometimes.

3. The bridge still dont synch users with spesial characters like these:
( ) _ < > & ' | / @
And scandinavian characters like: ø, æ and å
And usernames with only one character

You can see my site here: http://www.fmnorge.com

[petteyg359]

3. The bridge still dont synch users with spesial characters like these:
( ) _ < > & ' | / @
And scandinavian characters like: ø, æ and å
And usernames with only one character

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[deewik]

yup I have the same sort of issues with the login case and special characters as well but we may be out of luck in the interim

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Had a look at the username manipulation of phpBB3. 5 functions are called to generate the username_clean and many large arrays are created to help with the conversion of special characters. Using the phpBB3 methods will be too intensive for JFusion (I want to keep it light weight).

Would just converting the usernames to lower case be enough for you?

Cheers, Marius

with 12,000 + active users this would create a nightmare
no biggy for me for a while as I am not planning to integrate the users into joomla for a while so I will shelve looking at this extension until a bit further down the track.

Top work all the same there Marius and 20/10 for support

[petteyg359]

Not to be rude, but can't your users just make the effort to type in their real username?

[ZerBox]

When you have 27.000 users (and 1000 new each month) its quite hard to get everybody to do it one way. There will always be someone that dont do it as the 90% others who do it right.. And if only 10% of the users doing it wrong, we still talk about quite many users..

[deewik]

And if only 10% of the users doing it wrong, we still talk about quite many users..

I know that feeling ... I changed the cookie a few weeks back and 10% who don't know how to clear cookies or cache = 500+ emails about why they cant log on even though there is a notice telling them what to do.

Things are sooo simple when your site is small.

[mariusvr]

I have added username filtering in the 1.0.5c release that address most of the users that could not be synced into Joomla due to forbidden characters. I expect that this function might need some fine-tuning for special language characters (æ/Æ ø/Ø å/Å)

Now, I am looking into making the logins case insensitive. Which is easy to do when storing a user into Joomla, but some tricks will need to be applied to make sure the username lookup in the forum database still works (as this is where the password check is).

I will probably create an extra table in Joomla that stored the clean_username and the original_username, together with the forumid.

Thanks, Marius

[deewik]

you really really ROCK Marius
Take your time .... with a site the size of mine I cant look at running it live until its at least Beta
Really enjoy playing with it on my test sites though ... it will really have possibilities in the future

Keep up the good work

Ka kite anu
Scott