[dev] signup: suggested alteration.

[Marko Djukic]

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

> Quoting Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:
>
> > 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()
>
> Although this might hide them from the user, this isn't really a ideal
> solution
> IMHO.  Just becuase a field is hidden, it doens't mean it can't be edited of
> viewed.  I was imagining a system where administrators could store
> information
> about a users, that only administrators can see or edit.

i'm not sure i'm entirely following but could you not set up your
user_attributes.php file to be more dynamic? use some code in it to
differentiate between an admin user using the signup scripts and a guest
signing up, and hence show more or less fields?

> Although this isn't directly part of signup, or of account or user
> administration, I do beleive that such a feature would be useful for users of
> horde, and therefore a method of supporting such things should be provided.
>
> If this is not seen as a useful feature, I'm more then happy to hack my own
> horde to bits to support it, as it's only really minor changes here and there
> that need doing.  It would be a shame for me to do all this work though, and
> for it not to be useable for anyone else.

sure, send a patch to the list.

marko