Hi, When creating a new membership, many of my clients sign ups are married couples. Often they put both their names in using the ampersand character "&" [Jack & Jill]. Joomla does not accept this and the Joomla user is not created, there is no warning to the user.
Can this character and other non legal characters be blocked using the validation rules? If so what do I need to add to the validation config for the field?
We're using the "email as username" plugin which creates the username from the firstname+lastname. So in effect the field that causes us the problem is "first name". People register as a couple using the "&" which Joomla rejects.
The membership is created but not the Joomla member. I was hoping I could find a way to validate the first name by making illegal characters invalid.
Hmm, OK. I will try to check the Joomla core API again to see what's causing this and implement the changes to the next version (which I will release this week)
