Hi,
First of all, let me thank you all for writing the Community Builder component. It's great! If I can get it to do what I need it to do, I look forward to setting up my new forums/membership system and becoming a paid supporter.
I'm currently running a website with a primitive perl forums/membership system that a friend of mine programmed and I have modestly modified over the years, but it is well past due to be replaced with a more modern, flexible, and advanced system. I have installed Joomla, Joomlaboard, and Community Builder, and believe that these components will be able to do everything that my existing system does and much much more.
I have read through every post on this forum that I thought could be relevant, and I still need guidance with the following:
1.) I need to be able to have Community Builder send me the complete information provided by new sign ups in tab delimited format without anything else in the message. Following the hint provided by
this post
, I found the "english.php" file in "administrator/components/com_comprofiler/language" and located the code relevant to the e-mail sent to the site administrator.
By changing the default from:
DEFINE ('_UE_REG_ADMIN_SUB','New User Registration');
DEFINE ('_UE_REG_ADMIN_MSG','A new user has registered at [SITEURL].\n'
.'This email contains their details\n\n'
.'Name - [NAME]\n'
.'e-mail - [EMAILADDRESS]\n'
.'Username - [USERNAME]\n\n\n'
.'Please do not respond to this message as it is automatically generated and is for information purposes only\n');
to:
DEFINE ('_UE_REG_ADMIN_SUB','New User Registration');
DEFINE ('_UE_REG_ADMIN_MSG',''
.'[NAME]\t'
.'[EMAILADDRESS]\t'
.'[USERNAME]\t'
.'');
I can receive the same sign up information without any other text and in tab delimited format.
However, I have been unable to get any of the other fields collected by the sign up form to show data in the e-mail sent to the administrator. I've read
this post
, and have tried following the instructions given (going to components/community builder/field manager within the console) and entering the custom field names (such as "cb_frequency") into the "english.php" file in the same format in lowercase (as specified in the console), as well as uppercase, and with and without brackets, but I just receive e-mail with literally "cb_frequency". I have also tried entering field labels defined within the "english.php" file (such as "_UE_Country"), but the result is the same. In addition, I need to be able to have first and last names separated by a tab. What have I overlooked?
2.) As well as having all of the information collected by the form sent to the administrator via e-mail in tab delimited format, I need to only have basic login information stored by Community Builder on the server (first name, last name, username, password, and e-mail address). The other information collected by the registration form (site usage, demographics, and physical mailing address) needs to be sent via e-mail, and users need to be able to update this information online (by just providing it again within their profile), but *not stored* online. I haven't read anything in this forum or others that provides a hint on where to begin to take care of this, but I'm confident that there are other users who have done this and can enlighten me.
3.) And finally for now, how can I control the formatting of the fields displayed on the sign up form? I've read
this post
, which is quite helpful, but it doesn't explain how to further control the display of the fields. For example, I would like to be able to group six demographic pull-down menus into a 3 x 2 box under a heading, and group the physical mailing address fields in a organized manner under a heading as well. I also need assistance in selecting default values. For example, I would like one checkbox selected by default and another unselected. I haven't found relevant postings in this forum or others explaining how to do this.
I've made a good faith effort to resolve these issues on my own before posting this message and apologize if I've overlooked anything obvious. I look forward to receiving your guidance, establishing my shiny new Joomla/Community Builder website, and becoming a contributing member of your community! Thank you.