Re[2]: [psa-devel] Assistance Request

[Alex E. <ta...@sp...>]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 1:43:39 PM, Albert wrote:

> I will need to add (at least - looking for additional input) these fields to
> the psa_users table:

> Address_1
> Address_2
> Town
> City
> Zip
> Country
> Date of Birth 
> Company
> Fax

Could you make the fields list dynamic as part of an install
procedure? Have some that are defaults, but let the user add custom
fields if needed. Maybe just do this at an install level and not as
something that could be constantly modified.

> Not the exhaustive list, but a start. I'd like to setup a basic form that
> users can customize that uses the addUser function. It would be cool to have
> an array as part of the setup that can define which fields are required and
> which are not. Then of course some intelligent way to produce an error and a
> user friendly way to highlight which fields were missed, while retaining the
> original inputs.

Should be fairly easy to do this by dynamically setting the CSS class
of the input fields based on some flag.

> I just did this using PSA and my solution was very sloppy and bug prone.
> This will be useful to the project because many web applications are
> utilized by users who sign themselves up, or give themselves access.

I am about to begin work on a project that would need this as well. To
that end, I would love to help as best I can.

-- 
Alex
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