Remove 'Why you do want to join' and 'terms of service'

elchfan

Hello,
for my forum I want to remove the fields 'Why you do want to join?' and ' I agree to the terms of service'.

I have already removed the lines in the file 'registerapproval.php'. The fields don't appear any longer but I'm still promted 'Why do you want to join?' and 'Agree to terms ...' on the top of the page.

It seems that these two fields are mandatary. How can I avoid this?

dok

I would like to remove these as well.
"why do you want to join?" TOS and Gender.

I too attempted the change to registerapproval.php as suggested here: How to customize the 'Apply for Membership' form

As elchfan discovered, hiding the fields is not the solution.

Anyone?

TannerM

BUMP.

I'm also able to remove the appropriate fields, but validation is still looking for them. This is a pretty critical requirement.

fh111

additionally to taking out the lines in registerapproval

go to
application>dashboard>controllers>class.entrycontroller.php

line 1016

$this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('DiscoveryText', 'Required', 'Tell us why you want to join!');

to

$this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('DiscoveryText', 'Optional', 'Tell us why you want to join!');

where "Optional" was only a guess, but it did make it possible to register without the field

edit:
for TOS change the line 1013

$this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('TermsOfService', 'Required', T('You must agree to the terms of service.'));

edit:
of course this will only work as long as you don't update the core files

inside83

@fh111
This only sets TOS and 'Why you do want to join' as optional.
It does not remove it completely.

inside83

I just tested on v2.1.9 and it works.
I was able to register as a new user after this.

If you want to disable TOS, Gender and 'Why you want to join' you need to comment out the following lines in
applications/dashboard/views/entry/registerapproval.php
<li class="Gender"> <?php // echo $this->Form->Label('Gender', 'Gender'); // echo $this->Form->RadioList('Gender', $this->GenderOptions, array('default' => 'u')) ?> </li> <li> <?php // echo $this->Form->Label('Why do you want to join?', 'DiscoveryText'); // echo $this->Form->TextBox('DiscoveryText', array('MultiLine' => TRUE, 'Wrap' => TRUE)); ?> </li> <?php $this->FireEvent('RegisterFormBeforeTerms'); ?> <li> <?php // echo $this->Form->CheckBox('TermsOfService', $TermsOfServiceText, array('value' => '1')); ?> </li>

x00

@inside83 you don't modify core files. You can either copy the view to your theme then edit it, or you could load a different view through your theme.

inside83

@x00
I didn't know that and I already changed a bunch of files

I'm using 'bootstrap' theme, so I could have copied
applications/dashboard/views/entry/registerapproval.php
to
themes/bootstrap/views/entry/registerapproval.php
and edit it there?

x00

yes becuase they will get overwritten on update.

inside83

But that is the way about it?
Even thou there is no 'entry' folder in 'themes/bootstrap/views/'?

x00

you have to reproduce the file structure yes.