Changing "apply for membership" options

mitchellm · September 2011

I've just started using Vanilla forums and I like it a lot. For a variety of reasons I need to have people apply for membership.

Is there a way to customize the form people fill out? First, the gender item needs to go. Second, the "why" text box question probably also needs to go.

However, I would like to ask an item asking what type of employee they are (part-time, full-time) and perhaps what department the work in. Is there any way to easily do this? If so, I'm not finding it.

suzanne · July 2013

Its quite weird indeed they still haven't addressed it, for it's easy to fix this.

Feel free to use this at your own risk, make backups and stuff like that.

database
First of all there's the database to adjust. Login to your database server, use the correct database and execute the following command:

ALTER TABLE GDN_User CHANGE Gender Gender ENUM('x','m', 'f');

exit the database. Now the complicated part starts:

search and replace
cd to your forum root dir and execute:

models dir:
sed -i 's/\x27Gender\x27 => array(\x27m\x27, \x27f\x27)/\x27Gender\x27 => array(\x27x\x27, \x27m\x27, \x27f\x27)/g' applications/dashboard/models/*.php

settings dir:
sed -i 's/\x27Gender\x27, array(\x27m\x27, \x27f\x27), \x27m\x27)/\x27Gender\x27, array(\x27x\x27, \x27m\x27, \x27f\x27), \x27x\x27/g' applications/dashboard/settings/*.php

and we by default don't care, so x marks the spo... err, gender:
sed -i 's/GenderOptions, array(\x27default\x27 => \x27m\x27/GenderOptions, array(\x27default\x27 => \x27x\x27/g' applications/dashboard/views/entry/*.php

and let people choose their respective gender properly, so add to array:
sed -i 's/GenderOptions = array(/GenderOptions = array(\n\x27x\x27 => T(\x27unspecified\x27),/g' applications/dashboard/controllers/*.php*
and
sed -i 's/GenderOptions, array(\x27default\x27 => \x27m\x27/GenderOptions, array(\x27default\x27 => \x27x\x27/g' applications/dashboard/settings/*.php* applications/dashboard/views/profile/*.php

For VanillaBootstrap theme users:
sed -i 's/GenderOptions, array(\x27default\x27 => \x27m\x27/GenderOptions, array(\x27default\x27 => \x27x\x27/g' themes/VanillaBootstrap/views/entry/*

There you go .

theodinspire · November 2011

I'm going to have to second that the gender feature either needs to be removed, or barring that expanded. In terms of accessibility, "male" and "female", while they do cover most of the population, they do not apply to everyone, and if it going to continue to be a necessary field, the options "other" and "not given" should be allowed.

422 · November 2011

Doesn't gender ? Male or female ... Cover all of the population ?????

CurtisOden · November 2011

422, the transgendered community might disagree...

BubCity · January 2012

I would like to remove the "Gender" information simply because it shouldn't matter. Besides the fact that my forum is not a dating site, many members feel that their opinions will become biased on whether they are male or female.... or other for that matter. For instance, how much could a Female know about auto mechanics? And what would a Straight Male know about decorating?

How can we remove it?

woodchip · January 2012

BubCity, have you had any luck removing the gender information?

I've removed the gender-related information from the register.php files (www\applications\dashboard\views\entry\register*.php:) and haven't had any issues since, but i'm very inexperienced at this and am not sure if there is a better way.

slaretibartfast · May 2012

CurtisOden said:
422, the transgendered community might disagree...

For situations such as this you may want to edit:

$this->GenderOptions = array( 'm' => T('Male'), 'f' => T('Female'), 't' => T('Transvestite') }

In:

applications/dashboard/controllers/class.profilecontroller.php

applications/dashboard/controllers/class.entrycontroller.php

Just thought I'd add this while I was looking at it.

Pamela · June 2012

For situations such as this you may want to edit:

$this->GenderOptions = array( 'm' => T('Male'), 'f' => T('Female'), 't' => T('Transvestite') }

In:

applications/dashboard/controllers/class.profilecontroller.php

applications/dashboard/controllers/class.entrycontroller.php

Just thought I'd add this while I was looking at it.

Thank you! but if I select your 3rd option then I get a "Gender is not valid." error...

I've missing to do something is not ?

PS: I'm using Vanilla 2.0.18.4

mitchellm · May 2013

Wow, I can't believe after all this time this hasn't been fixed. The issue isn't male/female/transgender. The issue is why are we asking the question in the first place? Can't we just remove this somehow?

suzanne · July 2013