For now, you can post an entry on AlterEgo, although I believe there is already one on the topic.
We also have the wiki: https://web2py.com/wiki although I have not seen much activity there. Perhaps it is my fault. If anybody wants to setup a better wiki, I will link it. Massimo On Jul 30, 9:18 am, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
