Greetings,

Is there any way to lose most of the fields in the "Edit Users" section of the XOOPS admin? All that I need under Add New User is Nickname, Name, Email, Location (optional), and password. All the rest could go away and I would be happy about that for this web site. Do I disable something in the database? Or in the template? Where do I find it?

Thanks for any assistence!
Gail

There is no way to easily customize this in the user/admin interface. You have to customize several pages/templates, which is no easy feat when you're new to Xoops.

If you can, I recommend waiting until XOOPS 2.1 (the beta) and 2.2 (release) versions are available. From my understanding, this next version will have enhanced capabilities for user profiles, just as you have requested here. Take a look at the World of XOOPS (WOX) newsletter #5 for more details (under "Herko's World").

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately this web site project needs to be finished by August 9th so looks like I'll be updating to that version when it's released.

I'd really like to know which pages/templates would need customizing. Although I am new to Xoops, I have worked with PHP somewhat and html a lot, I always back up my work do that I can fix something that's broken.

Peace,
Gail

You will need to edit the following file:

modules/system/admin/users/userform.php

About halfway in the file, you'll find lines like:

$timezone_select = new XoopsFormSelectTimezone(_US_TIMEZONE, "timezone_offset", $timezone_value);
$icq_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_ICQ, "user_icq", 15, 15, $icq_value);
$aim_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_AIM, "user_aim", 18, 18, $aim_value);
$yim_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_YIM, "user_yim", 25, 25, $yim_value);
$msnm_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_MSNM, "user_msnm", 30, 100, $msnm_value);
$location_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_LOCATION, "user_from", 30, 100, $location_value);
$occupation_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_OCCUPATION, "user_occ", 30, 100, $occ_value);
$interest_text = new XoopsFormText(_AM_INTEREST, "user_intrest", 30, 150, $interest_value);

Commenting out these lines will remove the corresponding lines from the form. You can also use this to reorder them if desired.

Dennis

Commenting out a line in PHP is using a semi-colon ; correct?

Or is it as in Linux and commented out with #?

Thanks so much for the help!
Gail