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How to filter extended profiles fields editings? (9 posts)

Started 1 year, 11 months ago by: contoaberto

  • Profile picture of contoaberto contoaberto said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Is there a way to filter the content of the fields editted by users in their profiles?

    I want to have some fieds like “alternate email”, “real name” or “social security number”. The first one needs to check if the field really contains an email. The second needs to be limited for 80 characters. And the third needs to have only numbers.

    Wondering if those things are possible with extended profiles… Someone can help me???

  • Profile picture of contoaberto contoaberto said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    #help! please!

  • Profile picture of contoaberto contoaberto said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    #plz!

  • Profile picture of Peterverkooijen Deleted User said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    No, they’re not possible. Xprofile is an underdeveloped mess with low priority in the roadmap. There is also zero privacy/security in Buddypress, so storing social security numbers is asking for trouble.

  • Profile picture of Boone Gorges Boone Gorges said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    Actually, it is possible to do this kind of verification. There’s just no UI for it.

    Look in buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php, method BP_XProfile_ProfileData::save(). There is an action hook ‘xprofile_data_before_save’ that happens (you guessed it) before the save. You could hook a custom filtering function to this action and validate your data that way.

  • Profile picture of lincme.co.uk lincme.co.uk said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    @peterverkooijen said; “There is also zero privacy/security in Buddypress”. Care to expand upon that Peter? Our site isn’t ‘open for business’ yet, but when it is our members will expect some privacy, ie., profile stuff set to private and private group posts actually being private. Are you saying it can’t/won’t be properly private?

  • Profile picture of contoaberto contoaberto said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    hi, Boone Gorges,

    Thank u very much for the info. But I have to confess I’m very much a newbie to understand what I might have done. Would you mind please explain a bit more – maybe in a dummie way? :)

  • Profile picture of mvvspr Deleted User said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    @contoaberto

    Its better to notify using @mention feature.So that you will get your reply faster and also the notification goes to the user you intended to ask.Anyways I will do it for you.

    @boonebgorges
    hi, Boone Gorges,

    Thank u very much for the info. But I have to confess I’m very much a newbie to understand what I might have done. Would you mind please explain a bit more – maybe in a dummie way?

  • Profile picture of contoaberto contoaberto said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    @mwspr
    Thank u very much.

    @boonebgorges
    Would u please help? Thank u in advance.