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[Dragosvr92]

Why AJAX for the password?

I was just saying that, as there will be a lot of AJAX Functions. You may use it to include this also....
If it can be done in a other way, thats ok. Just proposing to add this features, not what to use to include them.....

-1 for AJAX check if the username follows the options in the ACP. Javascript without the AJAX technology should be used instead. like HTML5's input@pattern and input@required.

I think you are wrong. The error message already is showing already. It will only have to be a part of the username check, and show in the right side of the form..
Current message is "The username contains forbidden characters." btw.

There's no 2nd box. There's only 1 box for the e-mail in 3.1.

My bad.

It would just be plain javascript for the password, just to make sure it is entered correctly twice and is the correct length. Unless, that is, we implement some password strength requirements (upper/lower-case letter, number, special character, etc.); in that case it would be easier with AJAX.

Would be a nice idea to have a password strength option.

[Erik Frèrejean]

It would just be plain javascript for the password, just to make sure it is entered correctly twice and is the correct length. Unless, that is, we implement some password strength requirements (upper/lower-case letter, number, special character, etc.); in that case it would be easier with AJAX.

Would be a nice idea to have a password strength option.

Define "password strength", these tools usually just check whether a password contains upper/lower case and a digit. As xkcd explains that isn't the definition of a strong password.

[Dragosvr92]

Well, the password is "stronger" if it has symbols, or upper/lower-case letters... numbers ... or if its lenght is pretty large, like 10 characters or whatever.....I think that defines a "strong" password.

[DavidIQ]

RegEx is available in JavaScript and is close enough to PHP's regular expression usage to "easily" check password strength client side.

[brunoais]

^ this.

The only thing JS really does not support is look-behind. For the rest, I don't remember anything that js does not support that php supports.

No, simple condition going from the weakest regex to the strongest one, and first one that matches will stop it. Simple enough, IMO.

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I didn't understand.

[Senky]

Nothing important to be discussed. It is just programmer's thinking - just to show all it is very easy to implement "password strength" (at least that one based on length and types of characters used).