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    Posted: 07 January 2009 at 10:55am
Hi all,

I'm a complete nube to all this and can't find what I need in the docs. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to turn on/off some of the fields in the WebWiz Forum user profiles?

I want to hide the 'homepage' field so that people can't enter a URL against their profile.

Many thanks for any help you can give!

All the best

Ian
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote alabamatoy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 January 2009 at 10:52pm
Im a newb at this too, and really disappointed with the lack of response one gets when asking for help here, so I'll take a bash at it: Look for the form thats used when viewing or editing the user profile.  I believe its register.asp  You probably can just comment out the URL part of the form, or you can force it to be set to nothing.  About halfway down in register.asp you will find the following line:
 
If strHomepage = "http://" Then strHomepage = ""
endif
 
I would change that to simply
 
strHomepage = ""
 
and it should force every new user to have a blank homepage.  You would have to manually change the existing ones who have already set it to something else.
 
Keep a copy of the original register.asp, so you can always revert back to it in case you bonk it by following my suggestion here.  Test the change, your mileage may vary, professional typist on a closed keyboard etc etc
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Iann Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 January 2009 at 8:01am
Thanks Alabamatoy, I'll give that a try!!

All the best

Ian
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 123Simples Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 January 2009 at 12:00pm
It's a shame that you feel that way alabamatoy about lack of response - I have checked back through your recent posts and yes some have not been responded too, but others have. This is a support forum but no-one on here gets paid for their time, and sometimes, not everyone has the answer to questions either, so would it be better to have reply posts from peeps saying "I dont know"??? Wink

Iann - alabamatoy is partially correct that your answer lies in the register.asp file and with a bit of modifiying, yes you can prevent certain fields from displaying on the sign up new user page. You could hide the URL but then that does not prevent people from including one in their own signature

May I ask why you want to turn off that specific field?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Iann Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 January 2009 at 12:21pm
Hi MrTWS, thanks for replying!

I really just want to minimize the number of places that new people can log their websites.

On our forum we're blissfully free of spam postings but lots of people seems to join and put URLs in their homepage. Blatant ads for porn sites etc! Thought if that was disabled it might deter them from even joining the forum in the first place.

Ian
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