ADDING/CHANGING FIELDS AFFECTED BY THE SAMPLE SIGN UP FORM - Jun 1st, 2011

You can add, change, and remove any fields that you want to be automatically affected by the membership plugin sign up form. Here’s how. First, in the user accounts table create any fields that don’t exist. Then open sample_signup.php Near the top, you’ll find the error checking code section that starts with: // error checking $errorsAndAlerts = ""; If any of your new fields are going to be “required’ fields, here’s where you’d list them. If you’re removing any, make sure you remove them here too. Copy existing lines of code and change the field name and message to match your requirements. Next scroll down to the “add user” section and copy an existing line of code and change the field name to match your requirements. Next, scroll down to the form in the body of your page and add the required fields by again copying and pasting rows into your form and changing the information as required. If you want some of your fields to be text areas instead of text fields, you can change this field format: <td class="body-text-bold">City</td> <td> <input type="text" name="city" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(@$_REQUEST['city']); ?>" size="50" /> </td> </tr> To this for a 50 column, 6 row text area: <tr> <td class="body-text-bold">Describe Your Qualifications</td> <td> <TEXTAREA NAME="describe_discipline" COLS=50 ROWS=6 value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(@$_REQUEST['desctribe_discipline']); ?>"></TEXTAREA> </td> </tr> You can further modify the look of a form using MAXLENGTH="n" to limit your fields to n characters (good for zip codes and States for example.)

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