Empty Profile Field Notification! 1.0.0

Empty Profile Field Notification! 1.0.0

WHAT IT DOES: This hack will inform your users in a somewhat annoying way that they should fill in profile fields that you specify. Once they fill in the specified fields, this message will go away. This Hack can be used for many things, for example. You can have a notice displayed if they are not a subscriber, not a member of a certain usergroup, have not selected an avatar, and more. Its up to your imagination

WHY I MADE THIS: Rather than forcing users to fill out profile fields and potentially lose new members because they just didnt feel like doing it right then and there during signup, this will remind them while they are browsing the forums that "hey, its a good idea to fill this out or you have to look at this annoying message everyday"!

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1 - Go in your adminCP > Styles & Templates > Edit Templates > Forum Home Templates > FORUMHOME

Find:

$navbar

Below, add:

<!-- Empty Profile Field Notification by Stangsta -->
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 1">
<else />
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldXX]==''">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
<strong><font color="#FF9933">ATTENTION:</font> You do not have anything listed for the <a href="http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile">"About Me" </a>field in your profile.</strong>
</if>
</td>
</tr>
</if>
<!-- / Empty Profile Fields Notification by Stangsta -->

Step 2 This can get tricky for beginners. Now, customize the Hex color for the word "ATTENTION:" to whatever color you wish. I just made it a different color to help it stand out, you may remove the color formatting if you wish. Now select the profile field number you wish to produce a warning with.
ex.

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldXX]==''">

*NOTE: Make sure you change the URL to match yours.

Step 3 This is OPTIONAL!

Lets say, you want your users to fill out 2 or more profile fields. Simple, just keep adding the code like this:

<!-- Empty Profile Field Notification by Stangsta -->
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 1">
<else />
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldXX]==''">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
<strong><font color="#FF9933">ATTENTION:</font> You do not have anything listed for the <a href="http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile">"Field 1" </a>field in your profile.</strong>
</if>
</td>
</tr>

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldXX]==''">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
<strong><font color="#FF9933">ATTENTION:</font> You do not have anything listed for the <a href="http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile">"Field 2" </a>field in your profile.</strong>
</if>
</td>
</tr>

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldXX]==''">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
<strong><font color="#FF9933">ATTENTION:</font> You do not have anything listed for the <a href="http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile">"Field 3" </a>field in your profile.</strong>
</if>
</td>
</tr>
</if>
<!-- / Empty Profile Fields Notification by Stangsta -->

Hopefully this was informative and helpful. I will support this the best I can, but I am no expert. Feel free to improve upon this, all I ask is you share the improvements with others in this thread.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE....If you use this hack CLICK INSTALL!

[bada_bing]

Wow this sounds great but can someone make this a plugin as I hate template mods.

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Wow this sounds great but can someone make this a plugin as I hate template mods.

If someone would be so kind in showing me how to make a plugin, I would do that.

[arossphoto]

Any suggestions regarding my problems with the vBadvanced right column? Am I out of luck?

Cheers,

Andrew

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by arossphoto

Any suggestions regarding my problems with the vBadvanced right column? Am I out of luck?

Cheers,

Andrew

I have no idea, I don't use VBA.

[arossphoto]

Thanks,

I ended up using the other mod here to force users to fill in the fields. I prefered your more gentle approach, but I'm glad I found something that works. It's always nice to have options.

Cheers.

[arossphoto]

I just reinstalled this. Using vBadvanced to add columns to the forum pages seemed to be causing other weird layout problems so I got rid of it.

Thanks for a great mod!

[PennylessZ28]

Hurm, I was looking at this and I was wondering why you did this

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 1">
<else />

And not this

<if condition="$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] != '0' AND THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">

Or you could use something even simpler

	<if condition="$show['member']">

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by HR3rdGen

Hurm, I was looking at this and I was wondering why you did this

Gotta start somewhere

Good looking out.

[truCido]

looks like a great hack exactly what I've been after but how would I get this to work with the email field?

[Tralala]

You can have a notice displayed if they are not a subscriber, not a member of a certain usergroup, have not selected an avatar, and more.

This looks great, just what I am looking for. I'd like to gently remind folks to upload an avatar.

So how is this done? What is the profile field # for avatar?