Replace some characters in User Profile Field content (Many people should need it)

[basketmen]

Dear kh99, i am sorry, so is it like this

if ($_POST['do'] == 'updateprofile')
{
$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY);

$fieldcontentbefore = array(
'aaa',
'ccc'
);

$fieldcontentafter = array(
'bbb',
'ddd'
);


$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY); = str_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY);

or this one

if ($_POST['do'] == 'updateprofile')
{
$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY);

$fieldcontentbefore = array(
'aaa',
'ccc'
);

$fieldcontentafter = array(
'bbb',
'ddd'
);


$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY) = str_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY));
}

}



i tried both got error message like this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/username/public_html/profile.php(156) : eval()'d code on line 22

[kh99]

No, just the one change, like this:

if ($_POST['do'] == 'updateprofile')
{
	$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY);

	$fieldcontentbefore = array(
		'aaa',
		'ccc'
	);

	$fieldcontentafter = array(
		'bbb',
		'ddd'
	);


	$vbulletin->GPC['userfield']['fieldX'] = str_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, $vbulletin->GPC['userfield']['fieldX']);
}

Where you replace the 2 occurrences of 'fieldX' with the real field name that you want to change.

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

It wouldn't be $field1 but rather ['field1'] so the id of the field you are trying to manipulate

Right. Or else you'd need to set $field to something like:

$fields = array('field4', 'field7', 'field8');
foreach ($fields AS $field)
{
    	$vbulletin->GPC['userfield'][$field] = str_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, $vbulletin->GPC['userfield'][$field]);
}

[basketmen]

Dear kh99, thank you for explaining it again, but its looks like still not working

if ($_POST['do'] == 'updateprofile')
{
$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY);

$fieldcontentbefore = array(
'aaa',
'ccc'
);

$fieldcontentafter = array(
'bbb',
'ddd'
);


$vbulletin->GPC['field1'] = str_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, $vbulletin->GPC['field1']);
}

is it working in your vbulletin test? if needed i can give a vb3 test site access

[kh99]

Well, I have a vb3 test site, but I haven't actually tried this code. But now I see that I've misled you again with another mistake. The last line should be:

$vbulletin->GPC['userfield']['field1'] = str_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, $vbulletin->GPC['userfield']['field1']);

ETA: ...and that seems to work for me. I used 'field4' (Occupation) and when I edited my details and put in "aaa" it was set to "bbb".

Also, that will obviously only work if the entire sting matches. If you want substrings, I think this should work:

if ($_POST['do'] == 'updateprofile')
{
$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'userfield', TYPE_ARRAY);

$fieldcontentbefore = array(
'/aaa/',
'/ccc/'
);

$fieldcontentafter = array(
'bbb',
'ddd'
);


$vbulletin->GPC['userfield']['field1'] = preg_replace($fieldcontentbefore, $fieldcontentafter, preg_quote($vbulletin->GPC['userfield']['field1'], '/'));
}

Note the before array needs '/' before and after the string to be matched.

[basketmen]

Gorgeus!! many thanks kh99!!


i recommend release a mod for it

we already have global replacement variable

we already have replacement in postbit

and this one is replacement in profile field