Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Demographics

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 10:22 -0500, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
> /* ----- Personal information ----- */
> Should you include prefix and suffix fields?

Damn how'd I miss that? Added it.

> 
> /* ----- Addresses ----- */
> I may be guilty of causing confusion here yesterday...
> 
> I'm not sure there needs to be separate fields for  
> state/county/province or postal code/zip code (5 total), so much as  
> some non-hacker friendly way to change the label for these fields (2  
> total). Some input from a non North American user might be good here.  
> Who knows, maybe in some places it's important to have both state and  
> county? Maybe I'm just being to fussy, but it comes from many hours  
> spent digging through code of many scripts, changing all instances of  
> 'State' to 'Province' ;)

First, I added Province (couldn't remember that one). Whether or not
province, county, etc are used will be up to the module developer.
Talking with Shaun about it this morning, we figured that having three
address fields would allow for any international address. You could then
ignore the other fields. Or if you are getting information from locals,
then you could use the state, province, county, or whatever.

> 
> /* ----- Other out-loud thinking ----- */
> Initially I was thinking there should be an image field, or a privacy  
> setting switch, but the more I think about it, these sorts of things  
> fall into the same category as 'signature' and 'avatar' and should be  
> handled by the individual mod as you suggest. For instance, my  
> business/rolodex mod does not want to use the common file cabinet for  
> member images and offers specific privacy settings of demographic info.

Agreed :) I got backed up with some university stuff today but I will
have some more work on this soon.

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Matthew McNaney
Electronic Student Services
Appalachian State University
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu