Custom Field - Inputting Info Automatically.

[dogbomb]

Hey.

I have a custom profile field on my forums. It is not required, not hidden and not editable.

When someone signs up to the site, I want to set this at a start value of 1...

What would be the best way to do this?

profilefieldid=5 if that info helps.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

[Xenon]

open your register.php and find this: while ($profilefield=$DB_site->fetch_array($profilefields)) {
$havefields = 1;
$varname="field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
if ($profilefield[required] and $$varname=="") {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_requiredfieldmissing")."\");");
exit;
}
$$varname=censortext($$varname);
// ENTER ANY CUSTOM FIELD VALIDATION HERE!
//Make sure user didn't try to bypass the maxchars for the fields
$$varname=substr($$varname,0,$profilefield[maxlength]);
$userfieldsnames.=",field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
$userfields.=",'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($$varname))."'";
}


change it to: while ($profilefield=$DB_site->fetch_array($profilefields)) {
$havefields = 1;
$varname="field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
if ($profilefield[required] and $$varname=="") {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_requiredfieldmissing")."\");");
exit;
}
$$varname=censortext($$varname);
// ENTER ANY CUSTOM FIELD VALIDATION HERE!
//Make sure user didn't try to bypass the maxchars for the fields
$$varname=substr($$varname,0,$profilefield[maxlength]);
$userfieldsnames.=",field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
if($profilefield[profilefieldid]==5) $$varname=1;
$userfields.=",'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($$varname))."'";
}

[dogbomb]

That kills register.php :|

[Xenon]

can you be a bit more specific?

error?

which message?

[dogbomb]

No error... gives out a blank page.

[Xenon]

hmm, cannot be normally
perhaps you have uploaded the file incorrectly...

try it again, be sure it's saved as pure ASCII

[dogbomb]

I did. I even tried editing it directly in the shell.

I got the page to show when I changed

if($profilefield[profilefieldid]==5]) $$varname=1;

to:

if($profilefield[profilefieldid]==5) $$varname=1;

but it still didn't work :(

[dogbomb]

As yet I am unable to fix this... anyone got any more ideas?