By yeeloon on

Hi!

Does anybody know how to set the username length to have at least a minimum of 6 characters?

Also, setting a max limit of 30 characters?

Thanks!

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vm commented

This may be something that while waiting for an answer in this thread someone in IRC can help with.

#drupal-support channel

see: http://drupal.org/node/108355
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yeeloon commented

this is not an answer at all...

can somebody else help? the access rules doesn't actually help much, as I can only got it to a minimum of 2 characters to bypass the username. I need to set to at least a minimum of 6 chars, but setting "_____" 5 underscores is not able to validate it.

has anybody encounter this before?

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vm commented

It wasn't intended to be your golden answer. It was a response trying to guide you to where the answer may lay in the case that no one on the forums could / would answer.

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yeeloon commented

VeryMisunderstood: Well, what can I say... I've got to thank u for the irc guide. Alas, I got (jmorahan) providing the help.

Just in case, anybody else looking for the solution here it is (on how to set the username to accept a minimum of 6 chars during the registration):

1. At the /admin/user/rules, Add Rule: Deny % followed by Allow ______% (6 underscores).

there you go..

Cheers!

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asdfghjklñ commented

> 1. At the /admin/user/rules, Add Rule: Deny % followed by Allow ______% (6 underscores).

Very convoluted. How were we supposed to work that out?
What about a minimum of 6 and maximum of 10 characters?
You can't make a rule for that! The rules collide.

Drupal sucks in so many basic areas.
I'm finding that just reading the forums is frustrating; I haven't even begun to build a site yet!

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vm commented

Drupal sucks in so many basic areas.

Four options:

if you have the skillset:
Supply patches for core that minimize the areas where you see Drupal lacking
create a contrib module that adds the feature ou would like to add

If you don't have the skillset:
pay a developer to create a specific feature you desire
wait for someone else to create it and make it available to the community.

All are open source ways of getting things done.
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asdfghjklñ commented

Yes, the developer vs enduser conflict. The old, 'don't complain about it unless you can fix it' perspective. But you've got to realise that there are lots of people coming to try Drupal who are used to having a textfield in the backend that says 'max' and 'min' username length. To these people (me), not having that kind of stuff is laughable.

OK, since you asked, here is my fix for between 6-10 characters:

deny: %
allow: ______
allow: _______
allow: ________
allow: _________
allow: __________

lol. This really sums up Drupal, I think. Very, very powerful according to some, but look at the stupid things it makes you do!

(By the way, this might be just a phase I'm going through; maybe I'll stop laughing at Drupal when I find enough cool things to counteract all the illogcial things... or maybe I'll come to understand why things need to be so illogical and convoluted). Please continue to humour me and answer my questions for the next few days, and I may become a devotee. You have been very helpful so far, and I do appreciate that).

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vm commented

The old, 'don't complain about it unless you can fix it' perspective.

I don't see where i've said that at all. Fact is Drupal doesn't have an army of developers. What you deem as important, is important to you and that is fine. Expecting others to stop working on what they are working on to create a feature that isn't important to them is pretentious at best. When it becomes a priority for someone with the skillset then it gets done.

The problem seems to be your expectations as I've stated in another thread. This puts you position to feel Drupal is lacking in areas as compared to other scripts. While not seeing that Drupal is far more advanced in other areas then other scripts. It's so easy to pick out the negatives rather then focus on the positives for some people. I'd hope you aren't this type of person, but as time goes on and you accumulate posts and comments this will sort itself out.

you've got to realise that there are lots of people coming to try Drupal who are used to having a textfield in the backend that says 'max' and 'min' username length. To these people (me), not having that kind of stuff is laughable.

A search for this type of feature only turns up this thread. How important can it be to "those people" you've deemed yourself to speak for ?
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asdfghjklñ commented

> I don't see where i've said that at all.

Oooo... you edited your post before I posted my reply!

You'll have to forgive me. I do apologise. This is a phase, I'm sure.
I'm actually very excited about Drupal, but I'm just having a hard time adjusting to it.
It is so very different to working with other CMS.
And at the moment I can't work out whether I'm glimpsing at beauty or monstrosity.
Again, I do appreciate your input, and I hope you continue to help me despite my attitude.

Edit: Oooo.. you did it again! Stop editing yours while I'm writing mine! lol.