symon Site Admin Location: Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 866 Location: Hampshire Add Karma
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject: Simplifying Registration
If You don't need to ask all the questions that are shown when people sign up, then here is HOWTODOIT
goto Admin panel - Styles Admin - Edit Templates/Logos then open up the template you have made then goto profile_add_body.tpl
Now look for something like this
Code: <tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_ICQ_NUMBER}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" name="icq" class="post"style="width: 100px" size="10" maxlength="15" value="{ICQ}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_AIM}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 150px" name="aim" size="20" maxlength="255" value="{AIM}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_MESSENGER}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 150px" name="msn" size="20" maxlength="255" value="{MSN}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_YAHOO}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 150px" name="yim" size="20" maxlength="255" value="{YIM}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_WEBSITE}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px" name="website" size="25" maxlength="255" value="{WEBSITE}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_LOCATION}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px" name="location" size="25" maxlength="100" value="{LOCATION}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_OCCUPATION}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px" name="occupation" size="25" maxlength="100" value="{OCCUPATION}" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_INTERESTS}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px" name="interests" size="35" maxlength="150" value="{INTERESTS}" />
</td>
</tr>
Now surround the questions you do not want asked with:
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->
So for an example if we want to get rid of ICQ then this is HOWTODOIT
Code: <!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_ICQ_NUMBER}:</span></td>
<td class="row2">
<input type="text" name="icq" class="post"style="width: 100px" size="10" maxlength="15" value="{ICQ}" />
</td>
</tr>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->
Now ICQ will not appear
You can do individual questions or whole blocks.
WARNING
The avatar block is not there for registrations anyway! Plus don't lose things like username, email, passwords and visual confirmation.
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