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#172077 - 01/01/07 09:40 PM

Instant Messenger

sdp

stranger

Registered: 01/01/07
Posts: 22

The website I help Administer was recently updated to 7.1 beta 3 from 6.1.1

A new feature/field is for members to list their IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc) names... Since our site has many underage members, the list presents the opportunity for unsavory online people to easily contact kids outside the forums..

Is there a way to turn off this feature in the profiles?

Thanks.

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#172080 - 01/01/07 10:32 PM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: sdp]

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14994
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

In the registration options section you can set the field to hidden and they wouldn't be able to enter information on registration...

As for disabling it completely, I think you'd either have to modify the editbasic.tmpl or showprofile.tmpl file and remove the lines for the chat services.

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#172090 - 01/02/07 12:48 AM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: Gizmo]

sdp

stranger

Registered: 01/01/07
Posts: 22

Originally Posted By: Gizmo

As for disabling it completely, I think you'd either have to modify the editbasic.tmpl or showprofile.tmpl file and remove the lines for the chat services.

The only one I noticed, that can be hidden, is the ICQ entry during registration, but as you know it can be changed once they log in and change their profile.

Editing the above mentioned files is something I can't access nor do I think the owner would want to mess with. What do you think.. there are so many options with this new version.. couldn't/shouldn't it be easily hidden (as an option) via the Control Panel? Just a suggestion.

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#172092 - 01/02/07 12:56 AM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: sdp]

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14994
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

I'm not sure how to say it without sounding mean lol... Basically, options are added on a majority, if it's in, it's in for all; and most things don't have options to turn them off if they can be easily edited out (by removing several lines in the showprofile.tmpl file).

If you link your admin to this, all he has to do is edit the showprofile.tpl file, and remove the following:

Code:

<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lang.PROF_ICQ}:
</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;
{$icq}
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lang.PROF_YAHOO}:
</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;
{$yahoo}
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lang.PROF_MSN}:
</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;
{$msn}
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lang.PROF_AIM}:
</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;
{$aim}
</td>
</tr>

he may also consider removing the homepage, email, and fakeemail optons as they could lead to also divulging user information:
For EMail and HomePage:

Code:

<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lang.VIA_EMAIL}:
</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:{$Fakeemail}">{$Fakeemail}</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lang.TEXT_HOME}:
</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;
{$Homepage}
</td>
</tr>

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#172095 - 01/02/07 01:27 AM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: Gizmo]

sdp

stranger

Registered: 01/01/07
Posts: 22

No it's cool.. you're not mean.

I suppose if editing the files is so easy, there is no need for entra code for it to be an option to hide.

Thanks for the response. I'll pass this info on to the owner and see if he is interested in making the change.

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#172097 - 01/02/07 01:48 AM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: sdp]

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14994
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

The templating system was made to make things easy to edit, either through the web based editor in the control panel (which requires files to be chmodded 666) or through another text editor on the file directly.

Once you get used to where things are, it becomes quite easy to tweak.

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#172239 - 01/03/07 09:09 PM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: Gizmo]

sdp

stranger

Registered: 01/01/07
Posts: 22

OK I didn't realize there was a section to edit the .tpl files.

So now that I know I can get to the .tpl files, do I have to close the forum when I make the edit or can I do it on the fly?

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#172243 - 01/03/07 09:17 PM

Re: Instant Messenger [Re: sdp]

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14994
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

Originally Posted By: sdp

OK I didn't realize there was a section to edit the .tpl files.

So now that I know I can get to the .tpl files, do I have to close the forum when I make the edit or can I do it on the fly?

I live dangerously and edit the files live; always have lol...

i think though that editing any files you should close your forum, and the UBB.C route of doing things is always clear your cache after making updates to template files.

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