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Replicating vBulletin referrer field

Posted by Vincent Isles at Wednesday, February 27, 2008

One of the fields shown when you register in a forum using vBulletin as their board software is the referrer field, which allows you to enter the name of the person who referred you to the forum.

Such a field would be useful if you are giving points to members for bringing in new members. However, such a field does not exist in SMF's registration pages.

A workaround is to download the Custom Profile Field mod from the official SMF mod site. Set up a custom profile field as follows:

  • Name: Referrer
  • Field Description: If you were referred to this site by an existing member of [FORUM NAME], enter their name here.
  • Show in profile? (uncheck)
  • Show in posts? Don't Show.
  • Parse BBC? (uncheck)
  • Text to display before and after the field: none (leave blank)
  • Field ID: could just be CPx
  • Add a horizontal field - none
  • Show field on registration: Optional Input
  • Only allow admins to edit field? (true) - important
  • Only allow admins to view field? (true) - important
After the user has registered, he has no way of editing the contents of this field, but it remains as part of his profile. Administrators could look at the field by going to Members > Username > Forum Profile Information.

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