Registration fields

[bharat_forum]

Is it possible to mark some Registration fields which are necessary to fill during registration? Something like little sign near the particular field.

[Branko.]

Yes but why? For any skipped (required) field user will see an appropriate warning.

[bharat_forum]

I noticed that many members have difficulties with registering because they don't fill all necessary fields, that's why it would be easier if they could see which fields should be filled.

[kat]

Dare we ask who your host is?

[margarett]

It doesn't show any warning, no. I'm looking at it, see if I can come up with something

[bharat_forum]

What do you mean by warning?

[margarett]

Warning about the field being required

[bharat_forum]

Oh I see, I really need something like warning or to mark all necessary fields.

[margarett]

OK, I think I came up with something...


I used, by the lack of a better one, the image for warning = muted, but it serves the purpose. The tooltip text shows up when hovering the mouse over the icon.

Is this good for you?

[Branko.]

I noticed that many members have difficulties with registering because they don't fill all necessary fields, that's why it would be easier if they could see which fields should be filled.

By default required is:
username,email adress and password

See screenshots and tell us where is the problem. 

[bharat_forum]

margarett, how did you add this sign? I would like to add something like this.

[margarett]

Yup, I can obviously give you the code But I need to sure if this fits you so that I only code it once

[bharat_forum]

Yes, I think it is the best option, I guess I can change this sign if I need? Would be very grateful for your help.

[margarett]

Final note: this only works for custom profile fields, *NOT* for profile fields (Location, MSN, ICQ, website, etc) and not for the default ones (but those are obviously required)
Still OK?

[bharat_forum]

That's what I actually need to add something like this to custom profile fields as I add a few which are important.

[margarett]

OK, I'll compile the edits and just add those here. It's just a tweak, doesn't require a MOD, methinks

[margarett]

So, here it goes:

Sources/Profile.php
Find:

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default_value, bbc, enclose, placement

Replace with:

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default_value, bbc, enclose, placement, show_reg

Find:

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'value' => $value,

Add after:

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'required' => $row['show_reg'] == 2,

Themes/default/languages/Login.english.php
Add at the end of the file (before ?>):

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$txt['required_field'] = 'This is a required field';
Themes/default/Register.template.php
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foreach ($context['custom_fields'] as $field)
echo '
<dt>
<strong', !empty($field['is_error']) ? ' style="color: red;"' : '', '>', $field['name'], ':</strong>
<span class="smalltext">', $field['desc'], '</span>
</dt>
<dd>', $field['input_html'], '</dd>';

Replace with:

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foreach ($context['custom_fields'] as $field)
{
echo '
<dt>
<strong', !empty($field['is_error']) ? ' style="color: red;"' : '', '>', $field['name'], ':</strong>
<span class="smalltext">', $field['desc'], '</span>
</dt>
<dd>', $field['input_html'];
if (!empty($field['required']))
echo ' <img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/warning_mute.gif" alt="*" title="', $txt['required_field'], '" />';
echo
'</dd>';
}


[bharat_forum]

Thank you so much, I will try to add and see if it works.

[bharat_forum]

Just wanted to check, will it add this sing to all custom fields?

[margarett]

All the custom fields where you specifically mark as required as registration, when you create them.

[bharat_forum]

So I can choose them myself, that's really good, hopefully I will not get any errors. Thanks again for your help.

[bharat_forum]

I tried to add the code you posted here and got this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in .../Themes/default/Register.template.php on line 745

736:             </div>
737:          </div>
738:          <span class="botslice"><span></span></span>
739:          <input type="hidden" name="sa" value="reservednames" />
740:          <input type="hidden" name="', $context['session_var'], '" value="', $context['session_id'], '" />
741:       </form>
742:       <br class="clear" />';

[margarett]

Please attach your file

[bharat_forum]

Which file? Register.template? Can I copy and paste the whole template here?

[margarett]

Yes, that one.
Just attach it, don't paste it or we'll have a big post here

[bharat_forum]

Here it is...

[margarett]

Your file is all messed up I assume you used cPanel editor in it.
Don't do that. Just navigate to the field and download it.

[bharat_forum]

What do you mean? Why it is messed up? I didn't change anything and removed this code. I didn't really understand how should I do it, can you please explain? Or maybe you can attach the right file so that I can copy it?

[margarett]

No, that's not what I mean. Your file is probably fine or else your site wouldn't work

What you did was to open the file in cPanel's editor and save the file from there, which resulted in a .htm file.

Just navigate to the file with your File Manager, right-click it and there should be an option to download it. Do that, you will get the correct .php file. Attach that file here

[bharat_forum]

Here it is.

[margarett]

Try this. Tested it here and it works (considering you did the changes in the other files also )

[bharat_forum]

Yes, it worked, what was wrong with the file? Thanks a lot for your help.

[margarett]

The changes weren't there, actually or, at least, I didn't see them.
Nevermind that, glad it's fixed. I'm marking this as solved and moving it to Coding.

[kat]

Nicely done, again, Bruno!

[margarett]

Ty