How to make PayPal Email a Required Field for Affiliate Sign-up

[mikru2010]

Hi,

i want to pay affilaites through PayPal, and so it would be good to have them enter their PayPal email at signup.

is there a way to do this?

[amin007]

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Update We have added a checkbox for this option in the settings menu of the affiliate plugin so you do not need to do this customization anymore.

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You just have to add the following to the input filed that you want to make a required field:

class="required"

Specific Step by Step Instruction

If you don’t understand HTML then the above probably won’t make any sense to you so here is a step by step instruction on what to do.

1. If you are using the on page affiliate view option

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Open the “register_view.php” file from the “view” directory of the affiliate plugin and search for the following line:

<input type="text" name="paypal_email" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['paypal_email']; ?>">

Once you find it replace it with the following:

<input type="text" name="paypal_email" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['paypal_email']; ?>" class="required">

That should make the PayPal email field a required field for signup.

2. If you are using the stand alone affiliate view option

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Open the “register.php” file from the “affiliates” directory of the affiliate plugin and search for the following line:

<input type="text" name="paypal_email" size=20 value="<?php echo $_POST['paypal_email']; ?>">

Once you find it replace it with the following:

<input type="text" name="paypal_email" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['paypal_email']; ?>" class="required">

That should make the PayPal email field a required field for signup.

[mikru2010]

That did the trick.

But how to make the * visible at the sign-up page too?

Do i need to edit css or is the * to be added manually somewhere in the php?

[amin007]

The “*” needs to be added in the PHP file. Open the same two files you modified before and search for the following:

<?php echo AFF_PAYPAL_EMAIL; ?>:

Once you find it replace it with the following:

<?php echo AFF_PAYPAL_EMAIL; ?>: *

[milehigh]

Would be nice to consider having this option as feature in the plugin. I’d like to incorporate this, but don’t want to have to maintain customizations that might inhibit plugin upgrades.

[JeffreyL]

I agree. That would be a feature I would like to have in the plugin. Can it be added to the new feature list?

Jeff

[admin]

Added this option in the Affiliate Platform settings menu. You can now simply check the following option in the settings:

Make PayPal Email Address a Required Field

[masmoola]

I went in to change this according to the directions above and I see the code has changed slightly in the newer version. Can you offer new directions to help me make the paypal email mandatory?

thanks

[Peter]

Hi,

Instead of changing the code you can now simply use the new setting as mentioned by admin in the response above.

Just go to the Affiliate settings page and enable the “Make PayPal Email Address a Required Field” checkbox.

If you can’t see this field you will need to upload the newest version of Affiliate plugin:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/re-install-or-load-a-fresh-build-of-the-plugins

[masmoola]

Perfect. Thank you.

[insuracell.ca]

Hello support,

There are some fields on the affiliate signup page that I wish to have setup as required fields. How can I do this?

Thanks,

Chris

[admin]

If you are a developer and know your way around PHP then I can tell you where to look in the code (this is not an easy modification so you need to understand PHP well). Alternatively, contact us using the contact link on our site for customization quote.

[EricMiranda]

This is great if you just want to make the Paypal address required. How would you go about making other fields (like the address information) required as well?

[admin]

We are working on creating an option so that you can modify/customize the form fields on the signup form via an interface. In the meantime, you can modify the PHP file to change the form fields however you like. Are you a developer?

[Author]

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