> allowed, anyway. Disallowing numbers shouldn't be such a big deal. Or
> just make sure it
> can't *begin* with a number:
>
> ^([^0-9][-_a-z0-9]+)
Actually, anything which isn't just numbers will be ok.
> Also, a check would already be needed to ensure that the submitted
> string wasn't already taken.
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Snook
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The reason I didn't recommend your approach is because the user slugs
>> are user definable. What if I wanted to call myself "6"? (I am not a
>> number...) You have to set a restriction on user slugs to include a
>> non digit character so as not to create issues. Your user slugs are
>> restrictive in that NO numbers could be used which would prevent me
>> from using my semi-common alias, gr66nman. But either solution is
>> viable, it's just important to be aware of the restrictions in doing
>> so.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM, b logica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> It works for me. What's needed, though, is a regexp and then rules to
>>> ensure that the user-defined slug will match when it's created.
>>>
>>> /* matches underscore, hyphen, and lowercase alpha
>>> */
>>> Router::connect('/users/:user_slug',
>>> array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'),
>>> array('user_slug' => '[-_a-z]+')
>>> );
>>>
>>> Router::connect('/users/:user_id',
>>> array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'),
>>> array('user_id' => '[0-9]+')
>>> );
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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