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I’m gonna say no. This plugin is for adding metadata. Captcha and form validation is a different animal.

To check if a field has been filled in you can use this function.

function sv_check_tos()

{

global $bp;

if ( empty( $_POST['name_of_field_in_template'] ) )

$bp->signup->errors['name_of_field_in_template'] = __( 'Your error message', 'sv' );

}

add_action( 'bp_signup_validate', 'sv_check_tos' );

Useful for things like agreeing to TOS. Put the function in your functions.php or bp-custom.php file

Oh, forgot something. You also need to add

do_action( 'bp_NAME_OF_FIELD_IN_TEMPLATE_errors' );

where you want the error message to appear in your register.php file.

When you say add the following code to the register.php do you mean the wp-register.php file, the wp-signup.php, or the bp-core-signup.php file? When I open the wp-register.php file i see a comment that says this file is no longer used.

Did you ever get the tos function to work? I’ve basically got the same problem which leads to displaying the error message, even when the tos field actually is ticked.

This only seems to half work.

When an account registers, the metadata is stored in the signup table. When the account ACTIVATES, that data never shows up in the usermeta table.

(I’m trying to record the IP address of user when they register and then spit it out in a pretty way. IMO, this is pretty important for CMS so you can see if a run of morons are all the same troll or not, rather than waiting for them to comment.)

Hi Everyone,

Here is the solution on half part of the saving custom value in the user meta table:

/* Add sign-up field to BuddyPress sign-up array */

function bp_custom_user_signup_field( $usermeta ) {
$usermeta[‘expertise’] = $_POST[‘expertise’];
return $usermeta;
}

add_filter( ‘bp_signup_usermeta’, ‘bp_custom_user_signup_field’ );

/* Add field_name from sign-up to usermeta on activation */
function setMeta($user_id, $password, $meta)
{
global $wpdb;
$signup_tbl = $wpdb->prefix.”signups”;
$users_tbl = $wpdb->prefix.”users”;

//Query to get the custom field store in the signup table here I have set it to expertise
$metadata = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT meta FROM “.$signup_tbl.” WHERE user_login=(SELECT user_login FROM $users_tbl WHERE ID=”.$user_id.”)”);

$user_exprts = unserialize($metadata);
update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘expertise’, $user_exprts[‘expertise’] );
}
add_action( ‘wpmu_activate_user’, ‘setMeta’, 10, 3);

in this solution , is there any possibility to do dependent drop down,

i need to store user meta data to created fields by x profile.

like: xprofile field: field_1
my custom file: replaces default x profile field_1 to custom field_1 and value must be stored in xprofile metadata