How do I make the birthday year required?
 

How do I make the birthday year required when registering?

vBulletin Options > User Registration Options > Require Birthday @ the bottom :)

Tried that. It still doesn't require the year. :(

I don't think it's possible without hacking. The only problem with that is that most users that don't want to have the year in their birthday would put a false year in to get past the registration process. ;)

That's why it's in the modification requests forum.

They can do that and if I catch them, they can be banned. I would like to force the year to be required, if they don't want to do that they can leave. I have a valid reason for it and I would like to know how.

I changed the coppa to check for users under the age of 18 instead of 13 which was easy just changing a few numbers in register.php, but I don't know how to require the birthday.

No one knows how to do this small little modification request? I would do it If I knew where in register.php to look. Are the only hack requests that are completed are paid hacks now no matter the size?

I am interested in this too ... at the moment my users have to submit a birthday when they sign up ... but once they have joined, the birthday field is no longer compulsory and 'search members by age' is not in the advanced member search

OK here is a small workaround I've done by editing templates.

It does the trick by using a select box for registration and profile edits rather than a text field.

However you must remember to update the year manually every year

In this instance I have set 1986 as my cut off year (18)

Open template register_verify_age

find the following:

replace it with:

Believe me typing that out manually was a real pain to do ;)

Open templates register and modify_profile

Find in both (or very similar):


replace it with the same as above but include another option value at the top of the options list.

Remember that last bit of code must be below <select name="year"> in the options list


Anyway ... it's very late here and I'm bound to have made a mistake, but it seems to act as a workaround for now ...

So there isnt a real way to inforce the age then. Is there a way just to remove the whole dam thing completely from the profile page? that way once they have to put the age in it wont be able to change unless an admin does it.


OF COURSE I came here from this thread.

>sigh<

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