vB4 Change COPPA Minimum Age

[ven0m]

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- Change COPPA Minimum Age

vB Version: 4.0.x

The COPPA of vBulletin is a great way to prevent under aged user's from registering on your forum, but its hard coded to 13 years of age.

With this simple file edit, you can change this number to anything.

For vB 4.x:

In register.php around line 121 replace 13 with whatever age you want (eg. 18)

if ($vbulletin->GPC['year'] < 1970 OR (mktime(0, 0, 0, $vbulletin->GPC['month'], $vbulletin->GPC['day'], $vbulletin->GPC['year']) <= mktime(0, 0, 0,...

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[ven0m]

This works with the "COPPA Registration System Cookie Check" option enabled if you change all 3 instances of the '13' (in the code; there are 2 instances in comments), rather than just the one. For vB4.1.7, the code instances of '13' are on lines 121, 206 and 867. The comment instances of '13' are on lines 134 and 868.