UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Anyone know how to hide additional profile fields?

Hello.

I'm doing some work for a client at the moment and this is the one thing I'm a bit stuck on. They have around eight thousand members but decided that only members of their organisation should be able to have accounts and post.

So they added a couple of required fields to registration, which include membership number and postcode. This means they can check the registrations using a registration queue and make sure that they are members of their organisation.

But these fields show up on the boards and are visible to everyone else. Things like membership numbers and postcodes should ideally be hidden.

I've been told that the only way to do this is to make changes to the perlscript that drives the forum but I've not had much experience with Perl.

I'd very much appreciate some advice on how to achieve this =)

The boards are UBB.Classic Version 6.4.0.1

Thanks muchly for any help you can offer,

Matt

This is pretty easy to do, in theory. The four custom fields are only ever listed in two places... The first is the member directory, and the admin can control which fields are used there. The second is the public member profile page, which is what we'll end up altering.

Though before hacking away, I would highly suggest upgrading to 6.7.

Which custom fields need to be hidden? 1, 2, 3, or 4?

All four of the custom fields are being used and as far as I know they want to hide them all.

I'll suggest an upgrade to them. Are there many changes between 6.4 and 6.7? I guess I could just check the upgrade history .. I'll do that now =)

Thanks for helping by the way .. very good of you =)

Matt

Theres a large amount of bugfixes, as well as Sticky Threads, Quick Reply, Content Islands (RSS Feeds) and UBB Directory added in.

Cool. I think I'll suggest an upgrade then!

Thanks for the info.

A list of the major features added to the ubb for every version since 6.01 can be found here:

https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/10/2234.html

Umm excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't type="password" work on those fields?

that makes it so the guy behind you doesn't know what it is. However, viewing one's profile would show it.

At the moment I'm waiting for the client to send me their licence number and password.

Wish I could just get on with it

Remove those text boxes from the .pl file

JC, he wants it so it's not public, not so the user can't see his own info.

Yeh, let's make it so that the users can enter in information and not be able to see it, then have to go view their profile page to verify they entered it correctly...

Ian, okay kewl..

Gizzy ,

had to :x...

Would I be okay to make this change before upgrading the bulletin board? At the moment I'm waiting for the licence number and password.

I guess I could make the changes and then make them again after upgrading? I may as well be learning something while I wait

all the template files will be replaced in the upgrade, so there is no real point in making it now if you're planning on upgrading...

Okies