Force Current Members To Fill Out Required Profile Field

So you add a new required profile field, and members who join afterwards are forced to fill out the field, but you want your current members to fill out that field too. Well unless your current members go edit their profile, the new field sits and waits for them to take action. This mini hack will force your current members to fill out the field by prompting them for action before allowing them to return to normal site use. Here are some further details:

• Credit is given to Revan from this post.
• Credit is given to Locutus2999 from this thread.
• Related vB 2.2.x from roxics in this thread.
• Here based off the vB 2.3.x hack by Locutus2999.
• This is for vB 3.0.7 though rather similar indeed.
• Add one phrase, edit one file, set profile field.
• Support only if/as time available, no guarantees.
• Should you install, say thanks by clicking install.

[T3MEDIA]

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[T3MEDIA]

uninstall to the extream

[mkdevo]

does this work in 3.07?

i tried installing, wanting to make 'birthday' a required field.. but when i go to the user profile field manager, there's nothing there..

??

[T3MEDIA]

wow see this is how you know this site isnt moderated properly. hacks listed with no support, coder disapears.... and its here like the sunshine for a next poor sap to use.

that was my negitive post.
now my question...

anyone bothered with this? Would love to hear how people got this baby to work.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

wow see this is how you know this site isnt moderated properly. hacks listed with no support, coder disapears.... and its here like the sunshine for a next poor sap to use.

that was my negitive post.
now my question...

anyone bothered with this? Would love to hear how people got this baby to work.

Well the coder indicated that no support will be given, so i don't see your problem.

[Revan]

Ok, if no support is given, I will post my clean, optimised code when I get home.
The main issue that made my stomach turn about this hack is that it is loop querying the profilefield table to check if it is set, when everybody knows that all this info is contained in the $bbuserinfo variable
I got it down to adding 1 query (the one to check whether or not a field is required, if Im not too much mistaken)

[Revan]

This is my revised code, and it seems to work OK. It goes in place of the original global.php edit:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] AND $bbuserinfo['userid'] > 1) 
{
    $regex = "(profile\.php|usercp\.php)";
    if (!eregi($regex, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) 
    {
        $reqfields = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "profilefield WHERE required = 1");
        if ($DB_site->num_rows($reqfields))
        {
            while ($reqfield = $DB_site->fetch_array($reqfields)) 
            {
                $fieldname = "field$reqfield[profilefieldid]";
                $field = $bbuserinfo["$fieldname"];
                if (empty($field))
                {
                    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('STANDARD_ERROR_PROFILEFIELD') . '");');
                    die;
                }
            }
        }
    }
} 


STANDARD_ERROR_PROFILEFIELD is in place of "zzzz_emptyreqfields", I just thought that was a stupid name so I made something more vBish.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Well the coder indicated that no support will be given, so i don't see your problem.

Thats good! I am glad you dont see any problems I have enough as it is.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by Revan

This is my revised code, and it seems to work OK. It goes in place of the original global.php edit:

Finally a man to step up to the plate. I will test it first and let you know.
if you can do magic with zero tols mass PM that would be a god send as well.
dam thing just stopped working.
Yeah I know its not in this thread but who IS in this thread?

checkin your stuff now bro.

[T3MEDIA]

works. may sound crazy but how can you have this exclude the year of birth or birday entirely? thanks. but it works I personallly just need a slight mod