Hi. I am building an educational community site where each student/faculty/staff who joins the community will get a user account and will have profile to fill. This profile is based on the profile module with some custome php coed snippets. The problem is old students/faculties who are no long a part of the institute will never know/join this site but I want to maintain a comprehensive profie of every one who's every been associate with the institute.
I am looking for ways to acomplish this is the most elegent way possible. Is there any way that user profiles can be merged with other node type or can I create a profile node type using CCK and then use it in place of user_profile. I don't want to creat accounts for people who are not a member of the site but want to have their profile on the site. I am using Drupal 4.7 and if require willing to move on to Drupal 5.x
Can some one give some pointers on this?
Thanks and regards
Vikram
