Bulletproof referral awards at registration

The way vb is set up, means that it is possible for a registering user to clear the "referred by" field when they are completing the registration form - thus robbing the referring member of a referral point.

The following mod is to the "register" template, and tests whether the registering member has followed a referral link, and if they have, it doesn't show the "referred by" field at all, but hides it, so that the referring member definitely gets the referral award.

In register template, look for:

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

before this add:

<if condition="$referrername">
<input type="hidden" name="referrername" value="$referrername" />
<else />

Now look for:

<tr>
<td>
$vbphrase[referrer]:<br />
<input type="text" class="bginput" name="referrername" value="$referrername" size="50" maxlength="250" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</fieldset>
</if>

After this, add:

</if>

And that's it. All very simple.

[Boofo]

Interesting. I like this.

[Oblivion Knight]

What a good idea.!

[The Realist]

Nice idea M8, well done.

[007]

Great idea! Installed!

good... never thought of this detail... even if i browsed most of the templates.. lol

[hotrod1]

Cool mod, thanks!

[o1dirtydog]

im gettnig the following error with the first edit

In register template, look for:

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

before this add:

<if condition="$referrername">
<input type="hidden" name="referrername" value="$referrername" />
<else />

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/emceepla/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3532) : eval()'d code on line 233

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

[o1dirtydog]

actually never mind, you have to do both edits before u save.

i was in the habit of saving after each edit.

thanks for this mod, it's great.

[Boofo]

Please post this in a text file for those who want to re-add it after an upgrade.