either email or telephone number in registration form

[hsubryan]

Hi Everyone,
I've been using the smf forum for a while now and have made some quite a few changes and
learning a great deal as i go along.  Currently, I'm trying to alter the registration form and have successfully added a new field, and a table within the mysql database. 

THE NEW FIELD IN THE FORM IS A TELEPHONE NUMBER:
how would be able to configure this so that the telephone number is recorded in the
database?

Also, right now, smf requires users who are registering to enter a valid email address, i would
like to configure the form so that users who are registering can enter either an email or a telephone number and make it not mandatory to enter the email address. 

Any help on this would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.

[KGIII]

Two things...

Custom Profile Field (in the mods section).
If they don't use an email how will they get notifications or recover passwords?

[hsubryan]

I will take a look at the custom mods section and try to figure that out. 
I read somewhere about the Custom Profile Field, if one uses a theme which has register.tmpl and some others, you will have to modifiy those.
If there is a simple answer for this please let me know, if not then i'll return in a few days with any problems i run into.

This is true, however, the forum is part of a larger framework. If users run into any problems they will have to contact us directly.  I'm using the forum for a very restricted discussion.  Hopefully, not too many individuals will forget their username and password. But then again you never know, we will see.

Thanks again for your help.

[KGIII]

I've done a wee bit of looking and I am not entirely positive but I am pretty sure that they will at least need an email address though you can opt to keep it hidden if need be.