On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Carl wrote:

>
> Fran - thanks. that's great. C

I keep seeing great tips like this fly past on the mailing list. I try  
to mark them, but it emphasizes how useful it would be to be able to  
accumulate knowledge in a ... knowledge base. I know that's not a new  
suggestion, but mailing lists aren't structured, and they tend not to  
be search-friendly.

>
> On Jul 29, 8:53 pm, Fran <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jul 29, 8:13 pm, Carl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> for the future: being able to set my own form for register() would  
>>> be
>>> real nice. at present I can do that only if I want to pull in a  
>>> remote
>>> authentication system.
>>
>> You can have extra fields on the register() form very easily - the
>> form is simply a SQLFORM of the auth_user table...so just create a
>> custom auth_user table with the fields you want before you call
>> auth.define_tables()
>>
>> You can also make a full custom form in the usual way:
>> In the view instead of {{=form}} you can do:
>> {{=form.custom.begin}}
>> {{=form.custom.widget.first_name}}
>> etc
>> {{=form.custom.submit}}
>> {{=form.custom.end}}
>>
>> & surround these elements with whatever HTML you want...
>>
>> As long as the mandatory fields are populated then you're good to
>> go :)
>>
>> F
> >



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