Including mailing address as a required field

[RickMath]

Hi

I know that there are many posts on making fields on the forms to create user account and user profile forms. I have edited the tpl files to include required="true" in both. I also have looked at the classes files to check the fields for required.

What I do not know is the format for the check lines for mailing address in the classes files such as CreateAccountForm.inc.php and ProfileForm.inc.php

Specifically, I am not sure how to add a line similar to this

$this->addCheck(new FormValidatorEmail($this, 'email', 'required', 'user.profile.form.emailRequired'));

for the mailing address. Should it read user.profile.form.mailingaddressRequired ?

Hope you do not mind me posting a new thread on this. Sorry to be such a nervous Nelly but I am cautious.

Thanks as always for your advice.

Rick

[wbt]

Hi Rick,

You should use FormValidator for this, not FormValidatorEmail. The third argument of the constructor of FormValidator should be a key from the locale.xml file. So if you add

Code: Select all

$this->addCheck(new FormValidator($this, 'mailingAddress', 'required', 'user.profile.form.mailingAddressRequired'));

to createAccount.tpl, you should add

Code: Select all

<message key="user.profile.form.mailingAddressRequired">A mailing address is required.</message>

to locale/en_US/locale.xml.

Regards,

Wouter

[RickMath]

Hey Wouter

Thanks I will try that later tonight and let you know how it works.

I appreciate your response.

Rick

[RickMath]

Wouter

Your suggested changes worked. Yea!!!!

My only comment for others that may read this post, is that the addcheck line should go in ocs/classes/user/form/CreateAccountForm.inc.php

It also works in ..../form/ProfileForm.inc.php

At least in my version of OCS this is where they worked.

Thanks as always for your help.

A nice feature would be a requirement for all the elements of a full mailing address. Maybe this is beyond us. Seems that anything but a null entry in the mailing address box will satisfy the check.

You are superstar on modifications to OCS.

Rick