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Disable user info changes on forum

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Topic: Disable user info changes on forum

Posted By: paix120
Subject: Disable user info changes on forum
Date Posted: 03 July 2006 at 8:15am

Hello,

Sorry to ask another question! This forum is great, the best I've found for customizing, and I'm excited to use all of the features!

Anyway, I know you can disable new users from registering on the forum if you are using the member API and the new accounts are created from the website code. However, is there a way to disable profile changes?

For instance, I don't want the users changing their password or email address on the forum without it also being changed in my website database. Is the best way just to make those fields hidden on the forum forms and redirect them to my profile page for them to edit the fields? Or is there a better way?

Thanks!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 July 2006 at 3:12pm

When the member API is enabled the user is not able to change their password from within the forum system.

The mail address of the user is not passed across to web wiz forums, so if you wanted to change this and disable the user from then changing their email address you would need to modify the code somewhat.

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Posted By: paix120
Date Posted: 04 July 2006 at 8:09am

So even though the form shows up that allows them to change their password, it won't actually get changed? So should I just hide the input box for it?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 July 2006 at 12:01pm

If the member API is activated this option should be already disabled and hidden.

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Posted By: paix120
Date Posted: 05 July 2006 at 9:04pm

Hmmm... it didn't seem to be hidden but I will try again and test it out.

Posted By: lostcontrol
Date Posted: 04 September 2006 at 1:38am

Just came across this thread while searching for more info on the Members API.

I get the same issue where the password fields are still visible in the user's profile when then API is activated.

Furthermore, I have noticed that even though the API logs the user without any problems, when I try to log in as usual in the forum it wont work.

It seems that when information is sent over to the forum through the API the password is not updated correctly.

Any idea what might be wrong?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 September 2006 at 10:38am

Not at the present time, but as the member API is presently quite new more work is going to be done on it for the next version from user feedback.

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Posted By: Jimboy
Date Posted: 30 December 2006 at 5:32pm

Hi - I've downloaded the latest version of the forum and had hoped that the Member API functionality had been updated so that the user could update their details and preferances without being given the opportunity to change their password or email. Obviously, if they are allowed to do this, both of the site's databases will be out of sync. I have tried to disable the relevant controls on register.asp by testing against blnMemberApi and strMode, but am having no luck (I'm obviously missing some code which tests against the password or email value. Do you have any suggestions?