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Require guest "username" when guest posts
My forum allows guests to post in certain forums, and also allows guests to enter a custom "username" when they do so. Is there an easy/good way to require that any guest posters enter a value for that field? For our purposes it's impossible to allow just anyone to register, but it starts to look pretty silly when everyone posts under the name "Guest". The best I've come up with so far is a javascript solution, but that seems less than ideal for numerous reasons. Any ideas? Many thanks.

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You could use a PRE plugin hook to verify there is a value.
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I'm not sure what your situation is, but you could consider allowing (and requiring) all users to register, but put the special users into a particular group, and only allow that group to post in the other forums.

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