Jim, thanks a lot for your input. I'm considering restful-authentication -- do you think using something like that (or authlogic) is overkill or might cause problems?
I do like the fact that out of the box RA supports roles and states :) thanks again jim. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Radiant] User Registration for a School > Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:15:36 -0400 > > On Jun 20, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Merk S wrote: > > > Dear Radiant Folks,I am working on a website for a martial arts > > studio where families/guardians register their children for > > classes. By hacking on a fork of the fantastic > > simple_product_manager extension > > (http://github.com/rubymn-f1/radiant-simple-product-manager/tree/master > > ) I've been able to account for all of the classes and such. > > > > I am now at the point where I'm trying to implement a user system to > > manage families, and their children, aka the students enrolled in > > Karate classes. These students all have different attributes that I > > would assume could just be part of a "profile" and they belong to a > > primary care giver who could also be referred to as their "Family". > > > > I am wondering if anyone has some suggestions for how I might do this? > > > > I have thought about the following options: > > - Extend Radiant's User model and some how support users belonging > > to each other. i.e. a Parent user might own a child user > > - Create a parallel and super simple user system separate from > > Radiant's users > > - Use something like Spanner's reader extension: > > http://github.com/spanner/radiant-reader-extension/tree/master > > in combination with Spanner's reader_group extension: > > http://github.com/spanner/radiant-reader_group-extension/tree/master > > . Group could be the Parental/Guardian and "reader" could be the > > student > > - Give up ( jk :) ) > > > > Thank you for reading this huge post. > > I haven't looked closely at the extensions out there for member > management. I believe that a common approach is to just piggy-back on > the existing users, but personally I would not do that. The purpose of > Radiant's users and your extra users are different enough that they > make sense being separate, and you'd also control that better by > rolling your own authentication scheme. I think Ba does this > (http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/ba/tree/master > ) > > I don't think that gives you an answer, but that's my opinion. > > -Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009_______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
