making the "Your name" Field required
Hello I am new to mailman and just learning the basics. I am looking for away to make the "your name" field on the subscription page required for our private list. I have changed the (optional) to (required) on the screen but I have been unable to find out how to get the list to make it a mandatory field. I am hoping someone will be able to give me some pointers on this. any help would be greatly appreciated thank you Doug
On 9/2/2010 12:00 PM, Doug Warren wrote:
This is tricky. Presumably you know how to edit the listinfo template to change (optional) to (required). You will note that the actual text box for entry of the real name is generated by the tag <mm-fullname-box> in the listinfo template. This tag expands to <INPUT type="Text" name="fullname" size="30" value=""> in the generated HTML. It would be nice if you could just replace the tag with its expansion and just add a 'REQUIRED' attribute, but I don't think HTML has such an attribute for INPUT elements.
What this means is you would have to look also at the <MM-Subscribe-Button> tag which expands to <INPUT type="Submit" name="email-button" value="Subscribe"> and add some ONCLICK= javascript to enforce an entry for fullname.
But, there are multiple problems with this. The first issue is that due to XSS protection, you can't put things like ONCLICK in HTML templates edited via the web admin interface. You would have to have access to the Mailman server and create an edited template as discussed in the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9>. Another way to do it would be to just remove the subscribe form and replace it with a link to your own subscribe page (see <http://wiki.list.org/x/hIA9>).
Beyond that, even if you made a bomb proof page that would refuse to allow subscription without a real name, it wouldn't prevent a user from subscribing by email without a real name.
You could (if you have access) modify the Mailman code to require a real name for subscription, but even this could be effectively bypassed by a user providing a bogus name. Perhaps a better approach is to set your list's Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy to "Require approval" and just not approve any requests that don't provide an acceptable real name.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 9/2/2010 12:00 PM, Doug Warren wrote:
This is tricky. Presumably you know how to edit the listinfo template to change (optional) to (required). You will note that the actual text box for entry of the real name is generated by the tag <mm-fullname-box> in the listinfo template. This tag expands to <INPUT type="Text" name="fullname" size="30" value=""> in the generated HTML. It would be nice if you could just replace the tag with its expansion and just add a 'REQUIRED' attribute, but I don't think HTML has such an attribute for INPUT elements.
What this means is you would have to look also at the <MM-Subscribe-Button> tag which expands to <INPUT type="Submit" name="email-button" value="Subscribe"> and add some ONCLICK= javascript to enforce an entry for fullname.
But, there are multiple problems with this. The first issue is that due to XSS protection, you can't put things like ONCLICK in HTML templates edited via the web admin interface. You would have to have access to the Mailman server and create an edited template as discussed in the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9>. Another way to do it would be to just remove the subscribe form and replace it with a link to your own subscribe page (see <http://wiki.list.org/x/hIA9>).
Beyond that, even if you made a bomb proof page that would refuse to allow subscription without a real name, it wouldn't prevent a user from subscribing by email without a real name.
You could (if you have access) modify the Mailman code to require a real name for subscription, but even this could be effectively bypassed by a user providing a bogus name. Perhaps a better approach is to set your list's Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy to "Require approval" and just not approve any requests that don't provide an acceptable real name.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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