Privacy conditions for Drupal Custom Profile Fields

On a recent project we wanted to give users the ability to enter information but then have check boxes to enable or hide profile information.

I can elaborate if someone wants more information but for now here are the real basic steps and the code snippet.

Creating the Profile fields

We created a custom profile text field called "name" for their real name.
We created a checkbox field called "showname" with help instructions to explain that checking the box would make it visible to other registered users.

Modifying User Profile

• Copy user-profile.tpl.php from the Drupal core to your theme folder.
• Add the following code
  

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<?php if ($account->profile_showname == '1') {print $account->profile_name;}; ?>

  

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  Please share this if it was helpful, tell us if it wasn't (or needs more info).

  P.S. to include a profile field without any conditions you normally use:
  <?php print $account->profile_name?>