NickName Changer

Dem13n

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NickName Changer

Flarum extension to add, change and delete nickname

Installation

composer require dem13n/nickname-changer

Updating

composer update dem13n/nickname-changer
php flarum cache:clear

Settings

The extension has two states

NickName Changer

In this state, all users can add, edit, and delete a nickname without restrictions

2 - In the disabled state, all users can only add without the ability to change and delete, only allowed groups can change and delete

NickName Changer

Edit User

Administrators can add, edit, and delete nicknames

NickName Changer

Validation

By default nickname validation is for Cyrillic and Latin, if you intend to use the extension for languages outside these groups, change the regular expression in the file
vendor\dem13n\nickname-changer\src\Validator\NickNameValidator.php

UPD
changed Cyrillic and Latin to universal variant [[:alnum:]]

Issues

Importantly

This is a temporary solution

ram0ng1

Dem13n

Is this a good solution if you want to delete your data? @OddDev To comply with GDPR laws.

theportablegeek

Dem13n By default nickname validation is for Cyrillic and Latin

Does this mean it wont work for english?

010101

Dem13n This is a temporary solution

Why is this a temporary solution? Is this feature planned for stable or something?

SteveXu200512

Dem13n Would you like to update this extension so we can use it for newest flarum version Thanks

tankerkiller125

Awesome work!

Dem13n

theportablegeek
no, it will

tankerkiller125

theportablegeek English is based on Latin characters. If you go to Google webfonts you'll note that the character sets are "Latin" and "Cyrillic" there is no such thing as "English" characters.

theportablegeek

tankerkiller125 yet another thing I love about this forum: learning something new!!!

TOWUK

good russian man ) putin vodka

un3XPCTD

Hi,
Can I add new users by this extension or it's making second username allowed to change?

Dem13n

un3XPCTD only change nickname

Dem13n

010101 I think the function of adding the display name will be in core and the extension will not be needed

jordanjay29

Dem13n It's not planned to add the UI, but the functionality itself was added to Flarum for Beta 8. It seems like your extensions adds a new user attribute, but you're free to use Flarum's built-in attribute on the user's table and the utilities written for it.

Dem13n

jordanjay29 When I first started doing this extension, I wanted to, but I had some problems (now I don’t remember which ones) so I did it this way

robinodds

jordanjay29 Using the Single Sign On extension with Wordpress, users cannot change their display names. Otherwise they will be no longer able to login to the forum (even changing it on the Wordpress side)

With this Nickname ext it's possible for each user to change his forum's dispaly name, keeping the username unchanged and not having login problems.

jordanjay29

Dem13n We're very willing to help resolve programming issues with Flarum via the Dev tag.

jordanjay29

robinodds The link I gave above is to a PR which adds a display name attribute to the user table, which functions exactly like the nickname attribute that this extension adds. It's just a matter of naming, and one being part of the Flarum core API while the other being custom. There's nothing wrong with either approach here, nor is this a bad extension for offering this capability, I was simply advising the extension's author on an existing part of Flarum and its plans for it so they can plan for the future of this extension as desired.

The overall concept of the nickname/display name is made exactly for that scenario, or for users who desire UTF-8 characters in their name, which aren't supported by Flarum at this time. So I'm happy to see this extension continue.

CuamckuyKot

Уважаемый автор! Предусмотрите, пожалуйста, возможность изменять регулярное выражение, которым проверяется nickname при сохранении.

Please, provide an ability to change nickname validation Regex. In case if I need to use "." in nickname now I've to edit composer package. Which is not good.

jordanjay29

CuamckuyKot Please use English on our non-Language tags as per our Community Guidelines.

samtto

Good job.