User Registration Options

Set this option to NO if you would like to temporarily (or permanently) prevent anyone new from registering. Anyone attempting to register will be told that you are not accepting new registrations at this time.

• Variable Name: allowregistration
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value: 1

Allow you to set the paid subscription as a required field during registration that new members need to select a paid subscription and pay before becoming a member.

• Variable Name: regrequirepaidsub
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value:

Allows you to validate new members before they are classified as registered members and are allowed to post.

• Variable Name: moderatenewmembers
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value:

Enabling this option will send a welcome email to new users. To alter or translate this email, use the following links:

[Email Title] [Email Body]

Note: If you require emails to be verified, this email will be sent after the user has activated his or her account. If you moderate new memberships, no welcome mail will be sent as the user will already be receiving an email.

• Variable Name: welcomemail
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value: 1

Please input the username of the user that this PM is to be sent from. If no username is set then the Welcome PM will not be sent.

To alter or translate this message, use the following links:

[PM Title] [PM Body]

Note: If you require emails to be verified, this message will be sent after the user has activated his or her account. Also ensure that Receive Private Messages is enabled in Default Registration Options below.

• Variable Name: welcomepm
• Data Type: username
• Default Value:

This email address will receive an email message when a new user signs up. Leave the option blank to disable this function.

• Variable Name: newuseremail
• Data Type: free
• Default Value:

Normally, vBulletin will stop users signing up for multiple names by checking for a cookie on the user’s machine. If one exists, then the user may not sign up for additional names. Note: This does not stop users from logging out and then registering new accounts.

If you wish to allow your users to sign up for multiple names, then select yes for this option, and they will not be blocked from registering additional usernames.

• Variable Name: allowmultiregs
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value:

If you set this option to ‘Yes’ new members will not be allowed to post messages until they visit a link that is sent to them in an email when they sign up.

If a user’s account is not activated by the user visiting the link, it will remain in the ‘Users Awaiting Activation’ usergroup.

• Variable Name: verifyemail
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value:

The default option is to require unique email addresses for each registered user. This means that no two users can have the same email address. You can disable this requirement by setting this option to ‘No’.

• Variable Name: requireuniqueemail
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value: 1

Enter the minimum number of characters in a valid username, for the purpose of ensuring that new members create valid usernames.

• Variable Name: minuserlength
• Data Type: integer
• Default Value: 3

Enter the maximum number of characters in a valid username, for the purpose of ensuring that new members create valid usernames.

• Variable Name: maxuserlength
• Data Type: integer
• Default Value: 25

Enter names in here that you do not want people to be able to register.

If any of the names here are included within the username, the user will be told that there is an error. For example, if you make the name John illegal, the name Johnathan will also be disallowed.

Separate names by spaces.

• Variable Name: illegalusernames
• Data Type: free
• Default Value:

You may require the username to match a regular expression (PCRE). The admin help provides some examples that may be useful. To disable this function leave the option blank.

• Variable Name: usernameregex
• Data Type: free
• Default Value:

When a username is changed, you may wish to prevent users from registering with that name for a certain length of time.

Enter the number of days which an old username is reserved for. (Use 0 to disable.)

• Variable Name: usernamereusedelay
• Data Type: integer
• Default Value: 365

The user options on the New User creation form in the Admin Control Panel, as well as the New User registration form will default to the following settings.

• Variable Name: defaultregoptions
• Data Type: bitfield
• Default Value: 717718665

When users create an account or change their password, they will be required to create a password that is at least this many characters long.

• Variable Name: passwordminlength
• Data Type: posint
• Default Value: 8

You may add common words and commonly used and known passwords to this list. Please place each word on its own line. These words are not case sensitive. Any word included on this list will not be allowed as a password when users register or change their password. If the user’s password merely contains one of these words it will still be allowed. For example, if you include “horse” in this list, then the password “horse” or “Horse” will be disallowed, but the password “CorrectHorseBatteryStaple” will be allowed.

• Variable Name: passwordbadwords
• Data Type: free
• Default Value:

If enabled, users will be required to use at least one uppercase letter in their password.

• Variable Name: passwordrequireuppercase
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value: 0

If enabled, users will be required to use at least one number in their password.

• Variable Name: passwordrequirenumbers
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value: 0

If enabled, users will be required to use at least one puncuation mark or other special character in their password.

• Variable Name: passwordrequirespecialchars
• Data Type: boolean
• Default Value: 0

This setting controls the number of days that a user referral code is valid. Users can generate a referral link to refer friends to the forums on their user profile page, if they are a member of a usergroup that permits referrals via the “Can Refer Users” permission.

• Variable Name: user_referral_expire_days
• Data Type: posint
• Default Value: 30