how to parse out @email.com in usernames?

[xavier.vanvlasse]

Users can sign up with usernames like: [email protected]. My client wants me to display 'name' only, and not display '@url.com'.

I know how to do this in PHP, but the templates don't accept PHP code, so how would I implement this?

Thanks!

[Reeve of Shinra]

AdminCp - User Registration Options

a) In the Illegal User Names field, add @ and maybe the popular .com/.org/etc

b) Use the Username Regular Expression field for regex code so the username conforms to a certain format.

That will be one cookie please!

[xavier.vanvlasse]

This is a good solution. However, my client is importing 1000+ users and they all have emails as usernames.

How hard would it be to hide everything after {including} the @? They don't want to have 1000's of emails readily available for spambots.

Thanks.

[Reeve of Shinra]

How are they importing?

If its from a csv file, you can use excel (or some other spreadsheet program) to create a new column with everything before the "@".

edit:

In excel, you paste this into an empty column and change the two "A5" to the cell with the username. You would just copy/paste this for the entire list.

=LEFT(A5,(FIND("@",A5)-1))


Results:
[email protected] = xavier.vanvlasse
[email protected] = 12345.56789