Require customer to be 18 years old during account creation for date of birth field?

[timb22]

I'm going to start out saying I'm new at doing any coding and I'm pretty sure there is no setting for this in the admin panel but this is something that I need on my site for legal purposes so I was hoping someone could help me out.

I need to require the system to check to make sure the date of birth is 18 years of age during account creation. I also need to have it state the reason the account wasn't created after it gets submitted with a custom message. Basically "I'm sorry but our terms and conditions state that any person using this site must be over the age of 18, come see use on DATE THEY TURN 18"

Thanks in advance, This site rocks

[frank18]

Duplicated Thread!

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...of-birth-field

[timb22]

I know I commented on the other thread that I was new and put it in the wrong category. Not sure how to delete the other one. Sorry

[frank18]

I know I commented on the other thread that I was new and put it in the wrong category. Not sure how to delete the other one. Sorry

Welcome to the ZenCart community!

Just take some time and read through the Forum Rules, you will get a much better response to your questions from all of us when the rules are being adhered to.

Cheers / Frank

[timb22]

Thank you, I will do that

[timb22]

This is possible isn't it? I would this so but I don't even know where to start on this one

[timb22]

I actually found this but how would I change the end where it says

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_UNDERAGE','Sorry, but you must be at least 18 to register to use this site');

to

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_UNDERAGE','I'm sorry but our terms and conditions state that any person using this site must be over the age of 18, come see us on DATE THEY TURN 18

I want it to automatically input 18 years after the date of birth they type into the create account.

There is no certain way to check on a visitor's age, but you can check that the date of birth that they have given you would make them at least 18 (or any other age you choose).

To do this create an over-ride file in your template for includes/modules/create_account.php

Find the section of code that reads
if (ACCOUNT_DOB == 'true') {
if (ENTRY_DOB_MIN_LENGTH > 0 or !empty($_POST['dob'])) {
if (substr_count($dob,'/') > 2 || checkdate((int)substr(zen_date_raw($dob), 4, 2), (int)substr(zen_date_raw($dob), 6, 2), (int)substr(zen_date_raw($dob), 0, 4)) == false) {
$error = true;
$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR);
}
}
}

and expand it to (setting the minimum age to whatever you wish)

if (ACCOUNT_DOB == 'true') {
if (ENTRY_DOB_MIN_LENGTH > 0 or !empty($_POST['dob'])) {
if (substr_count($dob,'/') > 2 || checkdate((int)substr(zen_date_raw($dob), 4, 2), (int)substr(zen_date_raw($dob), 6, 2), (int)substr(zen_date_raw($dob), 0, 4)) == false) {
$error = true;
$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR);
}
$minimum_age = 18;
$acceptable_dob = (date('Y') - $minimum_age) . date('md');
if (zen_date_raw($dob) > $acceptable_dob) {
$error = true;
$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_UNDERAGE);
}
}
}

(note for the purists: yes, the minimum age should really be an Admin switch and yes, this is taking liberties with PHP's weak typing)

Then create an over-ride file for your includes/languages/english/create_account.php file and place the following line in there, changing the text to suit your style of feeding errors back to visitors

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_UNDERAGE','Sorry, but you must be at least 18 to register to use this site');