Making a Profile Field Required

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In customizing your forum's registration, you may want to make certain profile fields required. This is a short guide to doing so. In this guide, we'll make the Location field required. You can do this with any field, however. Just use the name of your field, such as "user_instrument," instead of "location" in the code changes below.

The are two types of required fields: ones required at registration only, and ones required in both registration and profile editing. To require a field at registration only, make this change to usercp_register.php.

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It is also a good idea to indicate that the field is now required in the registration and/or profile editing forms. You will need to edit the profile_add_body.tpl for each template installed on your forum. This tutorial will use code from the subSilver file for examples, but please be aware that the relevant code will be different on some other templates.

The first step is to find the area of the file that needs to be edited. Search for the name of the profile field you are requiring in the file. You should be able to find it in code similar to the next block, which is for the "location" field.