slashcode-development

[Slashcode-development] Problems getting user data

[Christopher W. <cc...@ps...>]

Hi all,

I'm relatively new to Slash and just recently getting back into Perl..

Let's say I need more information to be stored with a user beyond things like
their homepage, email, signature, etc.

Let's say I want to add "State" information, or City.

Well, I understand that you can simply add the fields to newUserForm or
editUser, and the extra data will be saved into user_params.

But how do I access the data thereafter?  I can get their homepage by using [%
useredit.homepage %] -- but I certainly can't do [% useredit.state %] in the
templates.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Chris.
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Chris Winn
Penn State University
International Politics & German
AIM: cwinnpdc

Re: [Slashcode-development] Problems getting user data

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Friday 18 July 2003 11:06, Christopher Winn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to Slash and just recently getting back into Perl..
>
> Let's say I need more information to be stored with a user beyond things
> like their homepage, email, signature, etc.
>
> Let's say I want to add "State" information, or City.
>
> Well, I understand that you can simply add the fields to newUserForm or
> editUser, and the extra data will be saved into user_params.
>
> But how do I access the data thereafter?  I can get their homepage by using
> [% useredit.homepage %] -- but I certainly can't do [% useredit.state %] in
> the templates.
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Chris.

It used to be that the code would save any extraneous form fields (that aren't 
in the schema) into the table users_param as a user param.

I used it a while back. Haven't for a while though.

I tried doing something similar yesterday:

<URL: http://www.lottadot.com/comments.pl?sid=35&cid=131 >

It doesn't seem to be working.

Anyone know if this functionality was taken out? Or is this a bug?

 Shane