Problem with signup form customization

Hello,

I am running aMember version 2.3.4PRO.

I am having some difficulty with a custom field I put into the signup form on my site.

What I did was to create the new field in aMember cPanel as follows:
Added new field:
Name: referral
Title: Referred By:
Field Type: -
Display Type: text
Validation function: vf_require

I want this field to be required by the user for sign-up.

Then I added that new field to my signup form (templates/signup.html) as follows:

Code:

<tr>
            <th><div align="right"><span class="style3">Referral:</span><br>
                <span class="style1">How did you find out about the IMA?</span></div></th>
            <td nowrap><input name="referral" type="text" id="referral" value="{$user.referral|escape}" size="30"></td>
          </tr>

Then I went to templates/admin/mail_payment.txt and added in the following to the file:

Code:

Referred by:  {$user.data.referral}

For some reason the Referred by is not being made mandatory and the user can sign up without filling in this field. I am not sure why this would be.

Can someone please advise?

Thank you
IMA

Hello Alex,

I will do that now.

Thank you!