I have a small site that needs very little moderation. I’d like for my users to have the power to change their own Custom Title, instead of sending me a Private Message with a request.

I can’t figure out how to make that change, though. Any ideas?

[@fel64 Member 18 years, 3 months ago]

You need to write a plugin that will be called on a hook in the profile, where it adds to the associative array $profile_info_keys an entry with key ‘bb_title’ – I think. To see how to do that, look at some other plugin that adds fields to the profile info thingy.

[@citizenkeith Participant 18 years, 3 months ago]

Well, I don’t know the first thing about writing plugins, so if somebody can help out, I’d appreciate it.

[@parabolart Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

in functions.php find function get_profile_admin_keys() {, and move $bb_table_prefix . 'title' => array(0, __('User Title')) from that function’s array to function get_profile_info_keys()

[@citizenkeith Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Hmm…. not sure to how to change that code without getting errors (I’m running 0.9.0.1 on this particular forum).

function get_profile_info_keys() {

return apply_filters(

'get_profile_info_keys',

array('user_email' => array(1, __('Email')), 'user_url' => array(0, __('Website')), 'from' => array(0, __('Location')), 'occ' => array(0, __('Occupation')), 'interest' => array(0, __('Interests')))

);

}



function get_profile_admin_keys() {

global $bbdb;

return apply_filters(

'get_profile_admin_keys',

array($bbdb->prefix . 'title' => array(0, __('Custom Title')))

);

}

[@philgreen Member 17 years, 6 months ago]

Do just like parabolart said. You should paste the text inside the () after the array for get_profile_admin_keys and separate it from the other ones with a comma.

[@citizenkeith Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I think I need a little help with this one. I’m running 0.9.0.2 now.

Here’s the section in functions.php:

function get_profile_info_keys() {

return apply_filters( 'get_profile_info_keys', array(

'user_email' => array(1, __('Email')),

'user_url' => array(0, __('Website')),

'from' => array(0, __('Location')),

'occ' => array(0, __('Occupation')),

'interest' => array(0, __('Interests')),

) );

}



function get_profile_admin_keys() {

global $bbdb;

return apply_filters( 'get_profile_admin_keys', array(

$bbdb->prefix . 'title' => array(0, __('Custom Title'))

) );

}

So if I move that section up to get_profile_info_keys, it should look like this, correct?

function get_profile_info_keys() {

global $bbdb;

return apply_filters( 'get_profile_info_keys', array(

'user_email' => array(1, __('Email')),

'user_url' => array(0, __('Website')),

'from' => array(0, __('Location')),

'occ' => array(0, __('Occupation')),

'interest' => array(0, __('Interests')),

$bbdb->prefix . 'title' => array(0, __('Custom Title')),

) );

}

That pretty much removes everything from get_profile_admin_keys, so do I just take that entire section out?

Thanks for the helping hand…

[@ddemeo Member 16 years, 10 months ago]

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say “thanks” to parabolart. I did as you suggested and it worked perfectly!

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Never hack the core.

Especially when that function is right there designed to be filtered.

see this apply_filters( 'get_profile_info_keys', array(

It means you can make a simple plugin to modify the info keys on the fly.

Untested but should work as a plugin:

/*

Plugin Name: Allow Title Edit

*/

add_filter ('get_profile_info_keys', 'allow_title_edit');



function allow_title_edit($array) {

if (bb_current_user_can('participate')) {

global $bbdb;

$array[$bbdb->prefix.'title']= array(0, __('Custom Title'));

}

return $array;

}