I want to make my new registration field mandatory

Did some searches didn't find a quick road map to what I needed to do, I have added a new field to my customer registration page per the instructions here...thanks!

Now I need to make this field mandatory with either the jScript check or at the very least add the "*" next to it...

Any advice on a quick modification for this in my template's "create_account" would be great.

Thanks!

Hi, Ive gone the reverse to you in the past but making some field NOT mandatory. To do that, I edited this file;

Includes/modules/pages/create_account/jscript_form_check.php

I imagine you'll have to add in the name of your new field to this file.

(Not 100% sure though as I havent tried it myself.)

Scott_C:

Hi, Ive gone the reverse to you in the past but making some field NOT mandatory. To do that, I edited this file;

Includes/modules/pages/create_account/jscript_form_check.php

I imagine you'll have to add in the name of your new field to this file.

(Not 100% sure though as I havent tried it myself.)

hi Scott-

I took a shot at this, my field is called: "taxid"

So I added:

<?php if ((int)ENTRY_TAXID_MIN_LENGTH > 0) { ?>
  check_input("taxid", <?php echo ENTRY_TAXID_MIN_LENGTH; ?>, "<?php echo ENTRY_TAXID_NUMBER_ERROR; ?>");
<?php } ?>

No error fired when I created an account though, I just need something, anything to be entered in the taxid field.

I'd also like to add the red * next to the box.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Hi, you need to add;

<span class="alert">THIS BIT IS RED</span>

So for an asterisk;

<span class="alert">*</span>

Hi

I'm running v1.3.9h

I have changed the company name minimum field length greater than 0 which makes it mandatory.

How do I get the red asterisk to show next to the entry box the same as other compulsory fields on sign up?

thanks

Derek

/includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php, change:

  define('ENTRY_COMPANY_TEXT', '');

to

  define('ENTRY_COMPANY_TEXT', '*');

Hi - thanks for your response - these are the only files I can find in the admin area

/includes/languages/english.php

Line #238 : define('ENTRY_COMPANY', 'Company name:');

Line #239 : define('ENTRY_COMPANY_ERROR', '');

thanks

derek