Adding Custom Select Field To Profile

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!*

[alkatraz]

can you add form Textarea support plz!!

thank you!

[treszoks]

Here you go. Untested, but should work.

[snyx]

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

thankx m8

[treszoks]

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.

[alkatraz]

thx a ton doode!

your the best ! =)

[alkatraz]

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:

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="$backcolor"><normalfont><b>$profilefield[title]</b></normalfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="$backcolor"><normalfont>$profilefield[value]&nbsp;</normalfont></td>
</tr>

if you can help me at all, id really appreciate!
thx
-Colin

[treszoks]

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];
}

[alkatraz]

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:

Maximum Input
- how many characters may a user enter into this field?
- maximum 250

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