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 Post subject: The user profile plugin?
PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 9:21 pm 
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How do we actually use the user profile plugin? It has the option of additional fields being required at registration. But setting these as required does not actually add them to the registration page. So how do we go about adding the additional fields to the user registration?
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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:05 pm 
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It really kinda sucks....I'm working on extending it now. It's nice that the framework is in place to support it.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:44 pm 
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Has anyone else attempted to modify the fields in plugins/user/profile/profiles/profile.xml ?

I've attempted to add a date format to the dob field, but that causes a fatal error. Bug report opened up, but I've been told that a fatal error isn't a bug (then what is?)

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i've had no problem adding/subtracting modifying fields, and even creating new profile type plugins. what seems to be the problem?
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 Post subject: USER profile fields
PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:47 am 
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on Joomla 1.6 we can create additional fields on users registrations easily? It's that true?
This will be GREAT because we could always play these 'new fields' connecting to forum bridge like PHPbb, etc ...
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 4:37 am 
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Absolutely true and it's easy to do.

Take a close look at the files in plugins/user/profile/

Everything you need to create additional fields can be found there! Some example fields are provided in plugins/user/profile/profiles/profile.xml

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 4:52 pm 
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very nice! stutteringp0et :)

If we need that Users must upload an image (eg a team/club membership card) to confirm and also validate that User .... and assign that registration.... we need to modify the same file ..

It would be easier if we could "edit, delete and create" that 'new fields' in backoffice .. or have a more complete registration process as it exists in phpbb ... but it's ok ..
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:34 pm 
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boxcarmib wrote:
i've had no problem adding/subtracting modifying fields, and even creating new profile type plugins. what seems to be the problem?


My problem appears when I attempt to add a date format to the dob field. Anything other than %Y-%m-%d causes a fatal error on subsequent profile edit.

This didn't happen in beta 1, it's new for 2.

I'm also having problems with the checkbox and checkboxes field types (they don't reflect the previously selected values)

I've pretty much given up on submitting bug reports. The bug squad seems more interested in asserting their superiority than confirming bugs. The first person that responded to my report said that the core no longer uses strftime date formats, however, the field code (libraries/joomla/form/fields/calendar.php) clearly still uses strftime(). The second person to reply told me that plugins/user/profile/profiles/profile.xml isn't where the profile fields are located (clearly false).

I'll just override the broken pieces as I find them. Maybe I'll describe my Joomlacode Issue Tracker experiences on my website and provide my methods to override the misbehaving code.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:46 pm 
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prolipes wrote:
It would be easier if we could "edit, delete and create" that 'new fields' in backoffice....


That's exactly what I'm working on.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:38 pm 
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I have a new approach now. When a J1.6 feature doesn't operate as intended, I just override it.

I have had to do this for the following field types (so far):

calendar, checkbox, checkboxes, list (in order to utilize multiple=true effectively), and combo

I'm sure that utilizing the JHtml class works great, but utilizing the XML types I find that quite a few of them just don't work as advertised.

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http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_profile_plugin

Explains the basics of the plugin.
It's really easy.

stutteringpet I don't get it, there is not one open bug report at this moment. If you have seen a chnage in behavior on calendar between betas please report it ... it may be due to soem work that was done to support non Gregorian calendars. I believe there was some discussion on the mailng list.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:28 am 
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Report it?....did that - it was closed as "not a bug" - which is what happens to bugs that I report. Once they're closed, I can keep posting evidence and it seems that nobody ever looks at it again.

Here's the report:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=20826

It bugs me (pun intended) that the issues I've reported aren't tested before they're closed. In the case of this report, information was given that is provably false (noted in my followup responses) It takes begging to get someone to actually take a serious look at them.

Here are the others that eventually got fixed (but I had to convince someone they were bugs):
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=20786
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=20642
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=20699

I really wouldn't mind submitting more bugs if it wasn't easier to override them (core devs - thanks for the override capabilities).

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:07 pm 
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This thread now looks suspiciously like my bug reports - it has no further replies.

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I can assure you that no issues are closed without discussion or testing.
Yes, you do have to actively engage in the process of issue discussion. We all are working and thinking and talking about all of the reports. In case you haven't noticed this is a team project, with an active mailing list and irc channel, and I'd encourage you to jump into the discussion. You had quite a few people engage on that first issue so I don't know why you would think it wasn't taken seriously.

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I reopened the one issue, but on the others all I see is a group of engaged volunteers, myself included, asking you questions and having discussion. That's how it works in a team project. I hope you'll think about starting to make some patches as you've got a good record on confirmed issue reports.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:45 pm 
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Thank you for re-opening the issue.

I have no problem participating unless the door gets slammed. You may notice that on the previous issues, there is a long gap. In this gap I'm sending emails, communicating in forums and generally begging for someone to re-open the issue. Every single one of the issues was closed, and I begged for them to be re-opened. Afterward, they were confirmed and fixed.

I really do want this to be the best Joomla release ever. I've invested a lot of time implementing this CMS over the past several years and I only want to see it get better. I realize there are a lot of people dedicating their time to core development, bug squad, forum moderation and more. Releasing free extensions, reporting bugs and answering forum posts is how I give back.

I've submitted more description to the tracker item. The fatal error does not occur until the field value is populated with a previously submitted value that is not in "Y-m-d h:i:s" format.

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