Too much information when registering
 

When my users register on my site.. it always take a long time to register... because they ask you what your birthday is, your age, where are you from, are you a male or female.... etc. how do i get rid some of the questions and stuff? I want something simple and fast and easy.

There is a fast register hack out (a couple actually) - just use it. Search in the Full Releases forum.

Also, most of the options are not compulsory - you really only need an email address to register with a vB forum. Just make sure new users know this.

Voila:

http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index...ack&hackid=471

Regards :D

- miSt

Thanks for your help guys. But from readin the notes.. it seems that this hack only makes its a esasier registration if the user is not regd and they access a restricted area... so instead of seeing a blank thread.. the user will be prompt to a registration page. what i wanted what i wanted to get rid (lessen) of some of the registration questions that are not neccessary such as..

Allow Bulletin Board Administrators and Moderators To Send You Email Notices? yes no


Invisible Mode?
Selecting yes allows you to surf the forums without appearing in the 'Logged In Users' list. yes no

Hide Email Address?
Clicking yes hides your email address in your public profile, so that it is not accessible by other users. yes no

Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies) yes no

Browse board with cookies?
Clicking yes will use cookies to keep your id for this session. Clicking no will send it through the links. (Selecting no may cause problems with proxies) yes no

Enable Private Messaging?
Allows people to send Private Messages to you yes no
Send you an email when you receive a Private Message? yes no

Pop up a box when you receive a Private Message?
This will pop up a small warning box when you receive a Private Message asking whether you want to view the message. yes no

my site is filled with questions that i would like to take out. Would this hack do that?

there is a hack out for a small register page :)

also you can just edit the register templates to take out what you don't want to show up for registration...

what do i edit?

Registration Templates [expand]
registeradult [change original]
registercoppa [change original]
register_avatar [change original]
register_avatarbit [change original]
register_birthday [change original]
register_customfields [change original]
register_referrer [change original]
register_stylecell [change original]

and as for the hack you were talking about... can you link me to it? =)

registeradult :)

there are a lot of input html codes, just replace em with hidden fields to make a nice standart selection for your users :)

Also registercoppa ;)

- miSt

just if he uses coppa :p

Most people do ;)

nope mist, most people don't :)
it depends on where you live, in germany coppa is a nearly unknown thing..

What about for UK?

I have it on. Even though i'm from the UK

Can any one tell me hat is meant by a "Hidden field"?

I would also like to Remove many of the fields on the registration form, but being new to this I don't understand "replace em with hidden fields"

Thank you,
Robert Pfeifer

Simply comment them out...

e.g.

Original:

Commenting it out:
- miSt

Mist,

Thank you for the explanation!

Now I understand what he was saying. I would have done it this way as opposed to how I did do it, which was just to delete the unwanted fields all together from the registeradult & registercoppa templates. I hope there are no problems with just deleteing the fields. It does seem to be working just fine.

I will know next time.

Thanks again,
Robert Pfeifer

There shouldn't be problems with deleting fields. As long as they're not required ;)

Mist,

Thank you for the help.

Since I see you are online could you answer another question for me?

Can you point me to the hach or modification that adds the yellow "online" / Black "offline indicator in the author box to the left each post (like what is on this board)

Thanks again,

Robert Pfeifer

This is simply a template modification :).

Edit your postbit_online and posbit_offline templates :D

- miSt

Mist,

:confused: I am confused.

My Vbulletin (version 2.3.0) does not show whether a user is online or offline in the author category. Do I have to activate this feature. I do have it activated on the home page to show online users but it does not show in the author category.

Thank you,
Robert Pfeifer

Author category. What do you mean?

- miSt

Mist,

For example: when I am reading your posts the farthest category to the left next to your post shows the name of the person who made the post and the following info:

Online
Registered: Jan 2002
Local Time: 08:50 PM
Style: Dark Blue

My board does not show online or offline at this location.

Thank you,
Robert Pfeifer

Ahh... search for $onlinestatus in your postbit template and move it into that section ;)

- miSt

Mist,

I will give it a try.

Thank you,
Robert Pfeifer

OK CALL ME AN IDIOT BUT.....

I just realized I do have an different Icon (which I do not like) for online/offline & it is located below the text of the post next to where the PM & EMAIL buttons are. Now, I can figure out how to move it to the box on the left, but how do I change the fact that when someone is online it shows that Icon? I want a text Online & Offline like this board has.

Thank you,
Robert Pfeifer

I probably should have made this a new post but I have moved the $onlinestatus to where I want it. My problem is where do I change the "<img src=" for $onlinestatus?

I want to replace the .gif with a text "Online / Offline

Thank you
Robert Pfeifer

quickly what is coppa and how do i shut it off? i am having trouble with my registration and i think it maybe related. to see the trouble i am having --> www.warvoice.com

it never send the new users an email. hence they are always waiting to be activated. i have to do it manually. and i am getting errors. you'll see.

People: there is a SEARCH link on this site. Use it. :)

Your questions have been answered many many times here at vB.org.

Hehe Erwin lets be nice.

I actuall did give you the answer earlier in the thread though.

The images are located in your postbit_online and postbit_offline templates ;)

Regards

- miSt

Just reminding members to SEARCH first, ASK QUESTIONS later.

Thanks for all your help guys,.. i have one last questions regarding this.. i am editing the templates right now and i see that some of the options such as the querstion:

Automatically login when u return to the site?

O YES
O NO

or

Browse board with cookies?

O YES
O NO

in the registration field...

if i were to comment these things out.. do thoughs features set to default like if i take the automatically login when visiting the site option in the resgistration out.. by default would it set it to yes?

and for browse board with cookies... if i took that option to answer yes or no out.. would it be set to yes by default?

PeetaGTS,

I am no expert at this but I tried EXACTLY what you are talking about. I found that wether I Commented them out from the template, after a person would register they all defaulted to "NO". I did not like this since I wanted to have certain items default to yes unless the user changed them in their profile. So I ended up adding them all back to the registration form.

I also did find that by changing the default setting from "ON" to "Off" did save the result unless the person registering physically switched it. So it seems to me that they must be shown in the registration form in oreder for the result to be set to yes.

I would love for someone to explain how to change this, possibly in a different template or in the PHP.


Hope this answers your question

yes, thats exactly what i saw.. when i took a look at the coding.. i saw where you would be able to set the default to either yes or no..... what i am thinking is it is possible to comment the acual display of the options that you don't want out , but leave the line of code that sets the default to either a yes or no. for example:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Automatic ally login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont>
<input type="radio" name="cookieuser" value="yes" checked> yes
<input type="radio" name="cookieuser" value="no"> no
</normalfont></td>
</tr>

this line of code is a option to set "Automatically login when you return from the site." on or off

the line of code:

value="yes" checked> yes

is the default option for yes.

No, I tried & even though I left the default set to yes, as soon as you comment the code out it does not seem to recognize it & ends up defaulting to no.

I think in order to get this to work when you comment the code out so it does not appear in the registration form, it is probably going to involve a PHP hack. Unfortunately, I am still very new to this & thats as far as I could take it.

hmm ok.. i thought so... =(... well does anyone have a hack for this or a codes that set whatever you disable to a default yes or no?

most of the options to set are in vbulletin admin section also

anyone?

When you comment the variable out, make sure you ADD this line in the template:

Anywhere between the <form and </form> tags.

Erwin,

Thank you VERY much.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Knowing this, I was able to trim my registration page quite a bit but still keep the defaults I wanted. I actually "deleted" all the unwanted fields off of the "registeradult" template. I figured since I wanted to eliminate all of them, why bother slowing down page load time by including alot of "hidden comment code" (although I sure not a major difference, every little bit helps). I just set the variables for each using your line. If anyone else is a BEGINER like me & wants to eliminate all of the radio buttons on the registeradult (or registercoppa) template, here is the list of all of the variables.

<input type="hidden" name="allowmail" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="invisible" value="no">
<input type="hidden" name="showemail" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="cookieuser" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="nosessionhash" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="receivepm" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="emailonpm" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="pmpopup" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="emailnotification" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="vbcode" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="showsignatures" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="showavatars" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="showimages" value="yes">

Just change the "yes" or "no" according to how you would like it to default and either "delete" or "comment out" (as mentioned earlier in this post) the unwanted fields.

Thanks again for everyones help on this. My registration page looks MUCH BETTER!!!

Robert Pfeifer