Let the admin choose if a textfield is to be shown as plain text or a…

…s a password (with '*' in place of normal text)

lang/en_utf8/admin.php

@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@
 $string['profilefieldtypetext'] = 'Text input';
 $string['profilefieldtypetextarea'] = 'Text area';
 $string['profilefieldmaxlength'] = 'Maximum length';
+$string['profilefieldispassword'] = 'Is this a password field?';
 $string['profileforceunique'] = 'Should the data be unique?';
 $string['profileinvaliddata'] = 'Invalid value';
 $string['profilelocked'] = 'Is this field locked?';

user/profile/field/text/define.class.php

@@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ function define_form_specific(&$form) {
         $form->addElement('text', 'param2', get_string('profilefieldmaxlength', 'admin'), 'size="6"');
         $form->setDefault('param2', 2048);
         $form->setType('param2', PARAM_INT);
+
+        /// Param 3 for text type detemines if this is a password field or not
+        $form->addElement('selectyesno', 'param3', get_string('profilefieldispassword', 'admin'));
+        $form->setDefault('param3', 0); // defaults to 'no'
+        $form->setType('param3', PARAM_INT);
     }
 
 }
 
-?>
+?>

user/profile/field/text/field.class.php

@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ class profile_field_text extends profile_field_base {
     function edit_field_add(&$mform) {
         $size = $this->field->param1;
         $maxlength = $this->field->param2;
+        $fieldtype = ($this->field->param3 == 1 ? 'password' : 'text');
 
         /// Create the form field
-        $mform->addElement('text', $this->inputname, format_string($this->field->name), 'maxlength="'.$maxlength.'" size="'.$size.'" ');
+        $mform->addElement($fieldtype, $this->inputname, format_string($this->field->name), 'maxlength="'.$maxlength.'" size="'.$size.'" ');
         $mform->setType($this->inputname, PARAM_MULTILANG);
     }