jelixir

This is apparently a problem for others too:

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/special-characters-in-registration-form/

When users register with special characters they can’t update their account because your method of storing their username goes awry.

In that thread you give the same ansver that WP doesn’t allow special characters but how is that in any way relevant when it’s UM creating the username for us in the first place?? Again how should a user named “ûber ülrik” register then? You can’t make people change their legal names to adhere to UM standards lol 🙂

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by jelixir.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by jelixir.

As i wrote the user does not pick their username, it’s created automatically by UM as far as i can see. So how can you see a “your username is not valid” error when their is no username input-field?

So what you are saying is that the “auto creation” of usernames from the register page is not standard from UM? As i wrote the user only inputs his first and surname, these off course needs to allow all characters – UM then creates a username from that which works absolutely fine in WP but not on their account page because it pulls from the plugin table usermeta.

I am using the standard register page as far as i know: https://pastebin.com/3WMwfbyV

I am not using any non standard plugins or validation.

And thanks for the reply @ultimatemembersupport! 🙂

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by jelixir.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by jelixir.

Version: Version 5.8.0-beta4

No third party plugins for usernames.

The user does not create his own Username.

It is done by UM or WP automatically right out of the box right?

I have used your standard register page with form creator.
The user inputs his first and surname and other data. The username is then auto-created by WordPress or UM by combining the two names – special characters removed.

As i wrote there is no problem with the usernames in WordPress, they appear in the database users table with no Umlaut and i can update just fine in the backend, – only UM shows a version with umlaut from the meta table (used nowhere else).

It’s on the “account page” from your template that the username is displayed incorrectly. It pulls a version with special chars.

further elaboration:

It seems a seperate version of the username is saved in the meta table beside the correct ones auto created in the users table:

user_login
user_nicename

The account template page pulls from the meta table a meta_key called:

user_login

which is exactly like the entries in the users table but without special chars removed – so the user can’t update his name. In the backend it works because it pulls from the users table.

Thanks in advance 🙂

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by jelixir.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by jelixir.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by jelixir.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by jelixir.

.. Aaaand it was just the browser caching the old thumbnails (even though the new ones were in better quality).

Could be remedied with versioning but that is of course maybe overkill.

I found a solution, though through slightly obscure documentation:

https://gist.github.com/champsupertramp/c1f6d83406e9e0425e9e98aaa36fed7d

In this thread i just copied rkrenn’s code stub:

add_action('um_after_account_general', 'showUMExtraFields', 100);

function showUMExtraFields() {
  $id = um_user('ID');
  $output = '';
  $names = array('phone_number', 'company');

  $fields = array(); 
  foreach( $names as $name )
    $fields[ $name ] = UM()->builtin()->get_specific_field( $name );
  $fields = apply_filters('um_account_secure_fields', $fields, $id);
  foreach( $fields as $key => $data )
    $output .= UM()->fields()->edit_field( $key, $data );

  echo $output;
}

add_action('um_account_pre_update_profile', 'getUMFormData', 100);

function getUMFormData(){
  $id = um_user('ID');
  $names = array('phone_number', 'company');

  foreach( $names as $name )
    update_user_meta( $id, $name, $_POST[$name] );
}

and added it above the rest of the code in the custom account.php file in your theme (like described in the previous post).

Remember to change the $names array, and now you can have custom fields that your users can update!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by jelixir.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by jelixir.