Someone asked for this and here it is. Hopefully the documentation is clear enough and I didn't miss anything. Post here with any problems and/or comments.

This hack adds a select field (dropdown menu) to the profile. *Make sure to backup everything first!*

can you add form Textarea support plz!!

thank you!

Here you go. Untested, but should work.

What is the difference between this and the other hack like it created by mutt (I think thats what his name was)

thankx m8

Mine only requires adding two templates and modifying a couple of lines in register.php and member.php and doesn't use text files that must be opened and read from.

thx a ton doode!

your the best ! =)

doh!

it works great, except for one thing:

when its displaying the custom textarea field in the Getinfo template (to view a members profile), the text thats entered in the textarea box doesnt have any linebreaks, so its displayed in one long line.


I know about a php function called "nl2br()" that is supposed to display multiline text with <br>'s instead of hidden carriege returns, BUT when I add it to getinfo_customfields, it doesnt do anything..

This is the code that I need to modify to display line breaks:
if you can help me at all, id really appreciate!
thx
-Colin

Assuming the linebreaks were added to the db:

In member.php find this in the "getinfo" action segment (should be around line 1200):

$profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];

Change it to this:

if ($profilefieldname == "fieldX") //where X is the field number
{
$profilefield[value]=nl2br($userinfo[$profilefieldname]);
}
else
{
$profilefield[value]=$userinfo[$profilefieldname];
}

sweet thank you!

I just noticed one more little issue,
the max input for custom fields is 250 characters so if a user types more then that it cuts it off.. I've changed the max input value in the Admin CP to 1000 chars but it still cuts it off at 250, I guess vbb has an internal max of 250.

admin cp:

Thank you very much for all of your help, I really appreciate it Treszoks.