#24 Support for multiple, overlapping "families"

[woodrow]

This request is for the ability to add a field to the
user database to identify which of several "families"
(could be classes, workgroups, etc., too) a person is a
member of, and then add another set of database entries
(maybe another table) to show which "families" each
user is "subscribed" to. When displaying the list of
people a user could potentially be buying for, select
all other users in one of the subscribed families.

Example of use: My brother and sister-in-law celebrate
Christmas twice, once with my extended family, and once
with my sister-in-law's extended family. They are the
only individuals in common between these two
gift-exchanging groups. Because no one else in either
group is interested in the other group, we set up two
instances of PHP Gift Registry, with my brother and
sister-in-law in both of them. Consequently, they had
to enter their gift lists into both gift registries,
and other people in each group had no visibility of
gift purchases and reservations for these two people by
people in the other group. With this enhancement,
there would only be a single instance of PHP Gift
Registry, and a single database; my brother and
sister-in-law would be in the database once each, but
would be shown as subscribing to both families--so they
could see everyone's list in both families, and both
families could see their lists, but other than that, no
one in one family group would see anything about
members of the other family group.

Thanks for a great, and very useful, program!

[winwiz]

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I like the idea of groups. Makes it easier for selecting
users to shop for. As per your workaround though, wouldn't
it be better to list everyone and only select the family
members you want to shop for?

[woodrow]

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You're right that people *could* just choose the ones they
want to shop for from a long list--that would also be a
workable workaround (so to speak!). While it would work in
many situations, if you get very many people involved it
would be a real chore. Just depends on the situation.