Some of the functions in advanced profile are named userinfo_ because I was working towards making a userinfo module to share between advforum and advprofile. Your module uses the same name so now there's a potential for conflict. It may be a while before I can get the code changed so I figured I'd put up a warning in both queues to not use the modules together until I can deal with it.

Michelle

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DragoonBoots’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » DragoonBoots
Status: Active » Fixed

I added a warning to the front page.

Michelle’s picture

Ok, thanks. Funny thing is I originally called it "user stuff" but decided "user info" sounded better. Having trouble coming up with a clever name. LOL

Michelle

ajayg’s picture

Version: 5.x-1.x-dev » 5.x-1.0-alpha1

Inside Advanced profile, why not call it advanced_profile_user_info or AP_user_info? In fact you may designate all your functions like that for any future conflicts.

VM’s picture

adv_profile_user_info would work too considering the name of the module.

Michelle’s picture

Because I was in the process of separating the code out to a separate module that I could share between advforum and advprofile as well as could be used generically outside of the modules. I was going to make a new project called "user info" and so had named the code to match that. But now there's this module with that name so I have to rethink my plans. But I can't right now because I'm trying to stay focused on porting advforum to 6. So for the moment, I'm just reccomending not using the modules together.

Michelle

scedwar’s picture

I've not yet installed these, so excuse my ignorance, but given that advanced profile opens up profiles to cck and hence views, would there actually be any benefit to installing user info at the same time?

Michelle’s picture

I don't know... I just saw this module pop up in the tracker and kinda groaned at the name and figured I'd better get a warning out. Whether anyone would actually try to use them together, I don't know. I'll be fixing it on my end but I need to get another set of alphas on advforum before I work on advprofile.

Michelle

DragoonBoots’s picture

User Info's current focus is to display everything that Drupal knows about registered users. It does not (currently) interface in any way, shape, or form with CCK or Views.

scedwar’s picture

This would be a useful comment to add to the module description. Personally, I would always prefer a cck/views solution and this appears to be the direction profiles are moving in?

DragoonBoots’s picture

I added something to the description. Does Advanced Profile support custom profile fields? I couldn't find anything that did when I wrote this module, but I may have just missed Advanced Profile.

scedwar’s picture

Nodeprofile and bio, both options in advanced profile, allow you to create cck content_types to store user profile data. Basically, all the power of cck in a user profile!

Michelle’s picture

Technically you can use profile fields as well, if you add http://drupal.org/node/211435 . But Advprofile is really geared towards a node based profile and you lose a lot of functionality if you just use core profile.

BTW, I should be getting back to this next week. I'll be releasing new alphas of advforum soon and then flip to profiles for a while.

Michelle

DragoonBoots’s picture

The purpose of Advanced Profile seems a bit different than what I'm going for with this module. Essentially, all User Info (currently) does is display info on all users in a table, available from the admin screen. This makes it easy to, for example, (and the reason I wrote it in the first place) match up usernames and UIDs with a custom profile field called Real Name. I do not currently plan on adding Views compatibility, as that does not fit in with its purpose.

Forgive me if I am completely wrong about this, as I'm a little frazzled with other, non-Drupal, stuff.

Michelle’s picture

Oh, yeah, from the description your module sounds totally different than advprofile. I was just answering your question in #10. Your module sounds kinda like http://drupal.org/project/members though, but that's just going by the description. I haven't used it to see if they do the same thing.

Michelle

DragoonBoots’s picture

Hmmm. I'll have to try out that module. Form the description at least, it seems very similar.

scedwar’s picture

Sounds like the advanced user module to me - this provides customised admin listings of users and custom profile fields.

DragoonBoots’s picture

I actually used (and continue to do so) that module before I wrote this - the prime difference is the ability to handle Custom Profile Fields.

Anonymous’s picture

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

asak’s picture

Is this issue fixed...?

DragoonBoots’s picture

Status: Closed (fixed) » Closed (won't fix)

I think we've agreed to just not use both modules at the same time. MY bad for not changing the status of this issue. Sorry!

Michelle’s picture

It'll become moot at some point because I'm going to synchronise the code with AF, which calls it author pane.

Michelle