Location Field

[StarionBoy]

Is it possible to make it mandatory that the Location field be filled in when registering a new profile?? makes it easier when people have things for sale and also just makes it easier to know where different people are from.

[decoy]

u farken agree!

jrod? cam? anyone know how to code that?

[jrod82]

You will need to edit includes/usercp_register.php

Find the line that says :

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	else if ( $mode == 'register' )
	{
		if ( empty($username) || empty($new_password) || empty($password_confirm) || empty($email))
		{
			$error = TRUE;
			$error_msg .= ( ( isset($error_msg) ) ? '<br />' : '' ) . $lang['Fields_empty'];
		}
	}

see the line that says

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if ( empty($username) || empty($new_password) || empty($password_confirm) || empty($email))

?

This is the line that checks the mandatory fields are filled. You want to make location mandatory, so add in || empty($location) before the last bracket, and the line will look like this:

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if ( empty($username) || empty($new_password) || empty($password_confirm) || empty($email) || empty($location))

And that will work, and reject people who do not specify a location. But it won't show location with a * beside it - if I work that out I will let you know.

Deeks - BE VERY CAREFUL CHANGING THIS. DON'T BREAK THE FORUM :D

[jrod82]

..and to make a * appear beside Location, edit Templates\subSilver\profile_add_body.tpl

find this line:

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	  <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_LOCATION}:</span></td>

and change it to

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	  <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_LOCATION}: *</span></td>

(all we did there was add a star after it)

[decoy]

hehe, ok ok ok, reelaaaaaaaaaax matty... dun fark nothing up now...

so this will work with new members signing up, and to get everyone here to add their location, i'll just delete every user who hasn't entered one!

[jrod82]

or set their location as something highly offensive to force them to change it :D