Need to add a contact detail

[strongarm_playa]

So I want to add a phone number section in the personal contact details section on profile pages. How do I go about doing this?
I want to be able to click on the number and send a text or call whenever I am mobile.

 

[Chris D]

Ok, good question

You'd need to create a new custom field:

Admin CP > Users > Custom User Fields > Create New

Set this up accordingly.

Most mobile devices will automatically parse phone numbers.

It can be forced by setting the value HTML output to:

<a href="tel:{$value}">{$value}</a>

But that will then display phone numbers as URLs even on non-mobile browsers and may not work on some phone number formats.

 

[strongarm_playa]

Thanks! It works when mobile. No problem.. now how do I make it selectable when in tapatalk?

 

[Chris D]

You probably can't.

Tel links are usually only parsed in HTML - that'd be in Safari and Mail etc. I don't think they even work in third party browsers.

A solution would be to use the HTML output I posted above, but again I'm not certain Tapatalk would output it and it would render the HTML in desktop browsers too.

 

[strongarm_playa]

thx Chris! I did use your code above. It works perfect in my mobile browser. But tapatalk wont let me select anything. Either way this helps. Thx again!

 

[Chris D]

thx Chris! I did use your code above. It works perfect in my mobile browser. But tapatalk wont let me select anything. Either way this helps. Thx again!

Ok, great, glad it helps.

Tapatalk must simply not allow that, but glad this is working well for you