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Birthdate is a Required Field · **Released**: 08-30-2003

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It enables the Birthdate field to become a required field, so that every member must fill it out otherwise they won't be able to register.

Tae-Hwan · #2 08-31-2003, 05:18 PM

excellent!

the hack works, but there's a small bug: when a new user registers without inputting his birthday, he sees:

Quote:

You have not completed the required field "". Please press the back button, complete it, and resubmit the form.

instead of "You have not entered your birthdate. Please go back and do so now."

also, just out of curiosity.. this hack seems to prevent a user from registering even if he puts in both the month and day of his birth, but not the year. i looked at the code, and it seems to only restrict the month and day.

Code:

if ($month == -1 or $day == -1)

so how does it protect against the year?

Gary King · #3 08-31-2003, 07:10 PM

OK it checks the year now.

For the problem you're having, I'm not sure what's going on because the hack works fine for me.

Sebastian · #4 09-01-2003, 02:04 AM

why force a person to reveal their private info?
nice way to annoying possible new members.

you dont even have your birthday field fill in here

what next, social security number required?

Gary King · #5 09-01-2003, 02:06 AM

Well, then the users just don't have to register, that's all

Sebastian · #6 09-01-2003, 02:07 AM

your loss not theirs

SmEdD · #7 09-01-2003, 03:42 AM

I thought there was a hack like this already?

[high]* SmEdD might of just been seing stuff . . .

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Quote:

Today at 12:04 AM Sebastian said this in Post #4
why force a person to reveal their private info?
nice way to annoying possible new members.

you dont even have your birthday field fill in here
what next, social security number required?

This can verfy a users age if you need if, as some boards do.

ZiRu$ · #8 09-01-2003, 06:52 PM

Thanks alot man.....really appreciate it!!!! *INSTALLED*

Red Blaze · #9 09-02-2003, 04:39 PM

Hmm... this could help me in something I wanted. I'll install it. ^_^ Thanks!

Dark_Wizard · #10 09-02-2003, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Yesterday at 12:04 AM Sebastian said this in Post #4
why force a person to reveal their private info?
nice way to annoying possible new members.

you dont even have your birthday field fill in here
what next, social security number required?

I think this is an excellent idea...helps with COPPA if you use it and like myself we do require an age limit for our clan.