Birthdate is a Required Field
 

<font size="3">What does this hack do?</font>

It enables the Birthdate field to become a required field, so that every member must fill it out otherwise they won't be able to register.

excellent! :)

the hack works, but there's a small bug: when a new user registers without inputting his birthday, he sees:

instead of "You have not entered your birthdate. Please go back and do so now."


also, just out of curiosity.. this hack seems to prevent a user from registering even if he puts in both the month and day of his birth, but not the year. i looked at the code, and it seems to only restrict the month and day.

so how does it protect against the year? :(

OK it checks the year now.

For the problem you're having, I'm not sure what's going on because the hack works fine for me.

why force a person to reveal their private info?
nice way to annoying possible new members.

you dont even have your birthday field fill in here :p
what next, social security number required? ;)

Well, then the users just don't have to register, that's all ;)

your loss not theirs :p

I thought there was a hack like this already?

[high]* SmEdD might of just been seing stuff . . . :o
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This can verfy a users age if you need if, as some boards do.

Thanks alot man.....really appreciate it!!!! *INSTALLED*

Hmm... this could help me in something I wanted. I'll install it. ^_^ Thanks!

I think this is an excellent idea...helps with COPPA if you use it and like myself we do require an age limit for our clan.

How come I can't see this hack....

I mean...I am licensed.

It looks like it has been removed.

thanks...thought I was going crazy, checked my license 3 times lol

Well then...I guess we will have to wait for its return!

Strange, when I edit the post, the attached instructions.txt is still there.

I'll see what I can do.

There we go, you should be able to see the attachment now :)

I installed this a while back and forgot to post that...

It works. ^_^ This hack could help me in a hack I'm trying to request. ^^; Based on permissions.

Who said that info COULD be public? For all you know it could be set to hidden. :p

Yep, that's always a possibility ;) :D

The current TXT file still only forces you to put in the month and the day....what about the year?

Also....this only affects users registering...what if i want to make my users who are already joined put in their date the next time they go to edit their profile!

thanks for the nice feature ! => INSTALLED !

I know this is a really old hack, but my forum still runs 2.3 (working on 3.5).
I clicked install and put this hack to good use.

However it still only checks for the month and the day, not the year.
I added the code which I thought solves the problem, but it didn't.

So what is the correct code?
Does anybody know?