XF 1.4 Reddit username under Additional Contact

[JackieChun]

Are there any plans to overhaul Additional Contact fields available to users during registration? AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger usage is dwindling, Google Talk is no longer a thing, while a bunch of social networks have emerged that people are using now. Much of my membership, for example, comes from reddit, and I would like to have the ID listed in Additional Contact. Is this possible?

 

[Paul B]

You can create a custom user field for it.

 

[JackieChun]

Can custom user fields have URLs and regular expressions in them? Because the user ID would need to be turned into a link to be useful. The format should be is http://www.reddit.com/user/username.

 

[eberkund]

Yes

 

[JackieChun]

Cool, could you help with making it a live link?

 

[eberkund]

What have you tried?

When you make the custom field you need a regular expression to get just the user ID and then there is another field for how it is displayed where you can insert HTML

 

[JackieChun]

I am at the Custom Field creation screen, not sure what to do next. I've only created static custom fields before.

 

[eberkund]

Options for text fields:

Field type: Single line text box
Value match requirements: A-Z, 0-9, and _ only

General Options:

Value Display HTML:

<a href="http://reddit.com/user/{$value}">Reddit User {$value}</a>

 

[JackieChun]

Great, thank you very much.

Slight correction to the code:

<a href="http://reddit.com/user/{$value}">{$value}</a>

The style will display Reddit user: automatically.

 

[lmnop]

In order for me to make this work for twitter and Linkedin, I needed to set the Value match requirements to: None

<a href="http://linkedin.com/in/{$value}">{$value}</a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/{$value}">{$value}</a>