Mandatory Age Requirement

[Keta]

by law for my site i can not allow anyone under 18 to post on my forum well i want to make it a required field when u sign up and when edit your profile is it a hack for this? if not can someone make it for me?

[Neo]

Ummm.. well why dont you just put that in your sign up agreement.. there are easy was to get around it unless you put in a creadit card approve thing

[SaintDog]

Yeah - there is nothing stopping them from signing up and "claiming" to be 18 when they really are not, unless, as said above by Neo, you require credit card validation.

- SaintDog

[Keta]

it's already in my sign up agreement... i can not stop them from lying i jusy want to make the birthday field a requirement? how do i do that?

[Logician]

I use the system in my board.

I didnt touch the birthday field (it is still optional) but I created another user profile field which is required for age and applied this hack to force numeric (and relevant) entry for the field.

Hope this helps..