Custom profile fields, restricted to admin only

Question

I am following this example here Profile plugin

to create my own profile plugin. What I can't figure out is how to make a field admin only?

In the original customer / profile there are fields like language or default editor. They can be disabled via ' Frontend User Parameters' on/off.

How do I create such a field? Visible to ADMIN only, not to the user.

There are parameters like name="register-require_myfield", are their any to disable a field for registration, or profile?

I can't find anything about this problem online, what am I missing ?

Thanks

EDIT: This is Joomla 3.2+

Answer 1

I'm not dead sure that this will work as i don't have such a user plugin installed to try, but try adding this function to your plugin. It's intent is to check if the user is in a usergroup of your choosing, and if not, exit and not prepare the form.

public function onContentPrepareForm($form, $data)
{
    $groups = $data->groups->getProperties();
    if(!in_array("8",$groups)){    // see table #__usergroups for a complete list to check
        return;
    }
}

Upon further thought (and maybe I'll try it later) you may have to adjust the contents of $form using methods of jForm. Again, not sure if it will work, but seems like a good place to start. I would be interested to know if you resolve it to put it in my own little bag of tricks.

Answer 2

You can edit the Profile Plugin. Edit the onContentPrepareForm() change the profile case to something like this:

// Case profile in site         
        elseif ($name == 'com_users.profile')
        {
            // Toggle whether the field is required.
            if ($this->params->get('profile-require_' . $field, 1) > 0)
            {
                $form->setFieldAttribute($field, 'required', ($this->params->get('profile-require_' . $field) == 2) ? 'required' : '', 'profile');

                // Remove credits field from the front-end user profile edit page
                if($field == 'usercredits') {
                    $form->removeField('usercredits', 'profile');
                }
            }
            else
            {
            // Case profile in site         
        elseif ($name == 'com_users.profile')
        {
            // Toggle whether the field is required.
            if ($this->params->get('profile-require_' . $field, 1) > 0)
            {
                $form->setFieldAttribute($field, 'required', ($this->params->get('profile-require_' . $field) == 2) ? 'required' : '', 'profile');

                // Remove credits field from the front-end user profile edit page
                if($field == 'usercredits') {
                    $form->removeField('usercredits', 'profile');
                }
            }
            else
            {
                $form->removeField($field, 'profile');                  
                // Remove credits field from the front-end user profile edit page
                if($field == 'usercredits') {
                    $form->removeField('usercredits', 'profile');
                }
            }