Custom Field - Inputting Info Automatically.

[dogbomb]

Hey.

I have a custom profile field on my forums. It is not required, not hidden and not editable.

When someone signs up to the site, I want to set this at a start value of 1...

What would be the best way to do this?

profilefieldid=5 if that info helps.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

[Xenon]

open your register.php and find this:

PHP Code:

  while ($profilefield=$DB_site->fetch_array($profilefields)) {
    $havefields = 1;
    $varname="field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
    if ($profilefield[required] and $$varname=="") {
      eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_requiredfieldmissing")."\");");
      exit;
    }
    $$varname=censortext($$varname);
    // ENTER ANY CUSTOM FIELD VALIDATION HERE!
    //Make sure user didn't try to bypass the maxchars for the fields
    $$varname=substr($$varname,0,$profilefield[maxlength]);
    $userfieldsnames.=",field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
    $userfields.=",'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($$varname))."'";
  } 


change it to:

PHP Code:

  while ($profilefield=$DB_site->fetch_array($profilefields)) {
    $havefields = 1;
    $varname="field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
    if ($profilefield[required] and $$varname=="") {
      eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_requiredfieldmissing")."\");");
      exit;
    }
    $$varname=censortext($$varname);
    // ENTER ANY CUSTOM FIELD VALIDATION HERE!
    //Make sure user didn't try to bypass the maxchars for the fields
    $$varname=substr($$varname,0,$profilefield[maxlength]);
    $userfieldsnames.=",field$profilefield[profilefieldid]";
    if($profilefield[profilefieldid]==5) $$varname=1;
  $userfields.=",'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($$varname))."'";
  } 


[dogbomb]

That kills register.php :|

[Xenon]

can you be a bit more specific?

error?

which message?

[dogbomb]

No error... gives out a blank page.

[Xenon]

hmm, cannot be normally
perhaps you have uploaded the file incorrectly...

try it again, be sure it's saved as pure ASCII

[dogbomb]

I did. I even tried editing it directly in the shell.

I got the page to show when I changed

PHP Code:

if($profilefield[profilefieldid]==5]) $$varname=1; 


to:

PHP Code:

if($profilefield[profilefieldid]==5) $$varname=1; 


but it still didn't work

[dogbomb]

As yet I am unable to fix this... anyone got any more ideas?