By shanavas on

How to customize the user profile . i would like to add some more fields to the existing standard user profile and i would like to give a option in some fields like

private
public
or friends

so based on the permission level only the field is available to the user

Is anybody knows then please help me

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apt94jesse commented

Search the forums, search the modules. There are lots of profile modification topics out there, some easy and some more advanced.

I have a social networking site, www.wrestlespace.com where I heavily modded my user profiles. It is somewhat outdated and not really in use, and its built on drupal 4.7 and therefore doesn't take advantage of some good modules written since then.

Just for your info, you may get blasted on here asking for help like this. Just do as much research as you can before you enlist help from others.

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vm commented

using the title of this topic as a search term on drupal.org shows = http://drupal.org/search/node/User+Profile+Customization reading these topics will help you out tremendously.

to give you a boost in the right direction:

fields are added through the profile.module which is part of core. themeing your profiles can be done using snippets found in the hanbdbooks in the themeing sections. the user above me has stated, there are modules in the downloads area that allow you to extend functionality. Don't bite off more then you can chew in one sitting. slow and steady wins the race.

I highly advise testing modules and doing development on a test site, on your local machine or in a subdomain of your sever so as not to screw up your production site while undertaking large tasks like this.

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jmmec commented

Hello,

Sorry to hijack this thread, but a related question.

I know it is possible to theme the user account page when displaying information; there are abundant snippets that show this being done.

What I am wondering about: is it possible to theme the Profile "Edit" page for Drupal 5.2? For example, say I create a "Personal" tab with various fields that I want to be themed during the "edit" process; how is this done? Someone else posted a similar question long ago and it was never answered, so I'll ask it on this topic.

Regards

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vm commented

Using Theme Override Functions For Forms

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