[dev] signup: suggested alteration.

[Marko Djukic]

Quoting "Ian P. Christian" <pookey at pookey.co.uk>:

> 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?
>
> --
> Ian P. Christian :: pookey at pookey.co.uk :: http://pookey.co.uk
> Pengus Hosting Solutions
>
ok, then this has nothing to do with readonly, but rather the attributes should
be expanded to allow for a "hidden" setting to be included, so that a field
would be added using the addHidden() function of the Horde_Forms rather than
the addVariable()

marko