[rct] Unique Custom Profile Fields

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This hook allows you to specify which custom profile fields have to be unique amongst your members. It is similar to the built-in IP.Board functionality which ensures that member names and email addresses are unique.

 

Features

• Runs on all boards from 3.2.3 onwards
  
• Supports the built-in custom profile fields, and your own custom profile fields
  
• Can be switched on and off for individual profile fields
  
• Fully integrated into AdminCP
  
• Tests for field uniqueness in User Control Panel AND on Member Registration
  
• Moderators and Admins can override the uniqueness requirement through their own ModCP and AdminCP
  
• All text used in the hook is imported into language files so you can edit to suit or localize
  
• Fully automatic install and deinstall, no hand edits required
  

Installation/Deinstallation

 

Simply install/deinstall the hook in your AdminCP

 

Usage/Set Up

1. In AdminCP, select Members -> Custom Profile Fields
   
2. Note the extra column which shows whether Custom Profile Fields must be unique (see screenshot for example)
   
3. Select the Unique Yes/No toggle when adding or editing custom profile fields. (see screenshot)
   

Test Case

1. In AdminCP, set a custom profile field to be unique AND required on registration
   
2. Input a value into the custom profile field for yourself to be something unique, not used by anybody else
   
3. Try and register a new user and use the same value in the custom profile field that you are using yourself
   
4. If you see the error message and registration does not complete, then the hook is installed correctly (see main screenshot)
   

 

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