how to stop a member changing his birthday? [Archive]

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Blam Forumz

05-02-2005, 08:15 PM

Hi, i have a member who changes his birthday everyday to that day just to annoy people, i dont want to ban him, i want to stop him from changing it, anyoneknow how? thanks

Paul M

05-02-2005, 08:37 PM

Suspend him for a few days as a warning. If members can't do as they are asked then they should expect to be "punished".

05-03-2005, 01:34 AM

Blam, I would edit the template where the user cp profile edit form, and just make the change birthday part of the form un-editable.

Blam Forumz

05-03-2005, 06:05 AM

But then it stops everybody from changing their birthday

Paul M

05-03-2005, 01:48 PM

But then it stops everybody from changing their birthdayThere is no way to stop one person from altering their birthday without going to quite a bit of trouble (and probably having to hack the code or template). Control of your member is the answer. :)

05-04-2005, 02:24 AM

If you REALLY need to do this, than heres what you would have to do:

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Use an <if> statement, so the regular code shows up for everyone else, but the altered code only shows up for that user.

( http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/template_conditionals < - that should help you )
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I agree with paul though, if a user is being a moron, do something about it. Don't take crap from people that are abusing your forum.