[dev] signup: suggested alteration.

[Ian P. Christian]

Quoting Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:

> why take away a feature, when there's no real gain?
>
> plus i can imagine readonly fields being useful when for example going to the
> signup script from another form, and you want to display some info entered
> into
> the previous form.

I'm not suggesting the readonly be removed.  I was suiggesting that on the
signup form, read only feilds aren't shown.

As I stated ealier, I'm working on a way for extra user attributes to be stored,
and I am trying to to have some fields that only administrators can change on a
user.  I have added a file horde/config/useR_attributes.php.  I was going to
use the 'readonly' feature to signifyh that they can only be edited by the
admin, hence thinging that on the default signup script, it might be a good
idea if they were not shown.  Whilsts I am happy to make this alteration on my
sytem alone, I thought that this kind of functionality might benefit the horde
comunity.   Another method of approach was to add a 'user_editable' field to
the fields array in the user_attributes.php file.

The plan to alter the 'accounts' package to allow the user to edit thier own
information, and allow adminstrators to view/alter this information via the
user admin section.  The kind of information that one might want to store are
things like

 - age
 - sex
 - nationalitly
 - mothers maidon name
 - ...

Does all that make sense?

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Ian P. Christian :: pookey at pookey.co.uk :: http://pookey.co.uk
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