Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] fallout user mod feature request

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

This is SOOOOOO needed.

When I did Creative Valley we needed an expanded members directory so  
I hacked Verdon's phpwsBusinesses module removing references to  
'business' as artists get a bit shirty being described in commercial  
terms. It was much more useful than the phpwsContacts module rizzo  
did a while earlier.

Ideally I'd have wanted that in the users module so after login they  
are asked to fill in all their info. I'd also love to see ONE module  
that looked after a users info that other modules could hook into.

For instance, I hacked phpwsBusinesses to show a users PhotoAlbums  
and Documents. Now I've got announce doing user specific blogs I'll  
be hacking in a blogs section. Add that for podcasts, forum posts,  
stats..... and you can see where I'm going and why hacking  
phpwsBusinesses is and ever growing task.

On the other side, everywhere the users name appears I'd like it to  
be a link that links to their user info page.

I attribute the lack of this feature to all the desperate hacks we  
see in individual modules for adding things like module specific  
stats, avatars and all manner of things which should be globally  
available.

IMHO this is a core feature of any community based site and should be  
core to phpWebSite



On 16 Mar 2006, at 14:12, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:

> I think that's an awesome idea and would almost negate the need for  
> my module altogether :)
>
> All I would have to do is assemble some of those demographics and  
> add a few personal settings.
>
> Any kidding aside, having a central demographic repository would be  
> useful for all sorts of 3rd party mods. The only issue it might  
> cause in something like my rolodex, is that my vision supports the  
> possibility of one admin user 'owning' many records and/or  
> individual users 'owning' their own records concurrently. A central  
> demographics mod wouldn't facilitate this, but I still like the  
> idea in general.
>
> verdon
>
>
> On 16-Mar-06, at 8:42 AM, Matthew McNaney wrote:
>
>> I think that is a good idea.
>>
>> What I originally considered (though never implemented) was a
>> demographics module. It would contain a large list of items for entry
>> (address1, address2, city, state, etc.). Each module could then tell
>> demographics that it required a user to fill out a certain number of
>> fields. The form for such would be controlled by that module.
>>
>> The nice part would be that it would prevent two modules from  
>> having two
>> different address1. It could also allow the module to add extra info
>> columns to the main set.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:08 -0500, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>>> Hi :)
>>>
>>> Would be nice if there was some official way to hook a module  
>>> into the
>>> user registration system. For instance, in my phpwsBusinesses mod  
>>> for
>>> current phpws (being re-written as rolodex mod for fallout) I  
>>> sometimes
>>> have to hack the users mod on a site so that when a new user  
>>> registers,
>>> they are then automatically directed to the phpwsBusinesses profile
>>> form, so it seems like a seamless process.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if fallout had some 'official' method of appending
>>> another mod's process to the end of the user registration process.
>>> Ideally, maybe a pop-menu in the user settings where one could  
>>> choose
>>> from a list of installed mods. Perhaps it could look for the  
>>> presence
>>> of a file in a mod's /inc dir (like my_page does) for what mods  
>>> qualify
>>> and what to do. At the least, a text field in the user mod settings,
>>> where a path or mod name could be entered.
>>>
>>> Any opinions?
>>> verdon
>>>
>>>
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