By adaven on

Hello,

I'm thinking of developing a module that will add a firstname and surname field to the user profile. Would anybody be interested in a module like this?

The idea would be that the users name could then be formatted to look like Joe Bloggs, or Bloggs, Joe. The username field could be used as a unique login id, like a staff number.

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MidGe48’s picture

MidGe48 commented

http://drupal.org/node/23710

Name, surname are far from unique, by the way.

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dman’s picture

dman commented

I extended vCard (which is an extension to profile basically) to provide cannonic (or at least extremely common) field names for basic user contact details like this. You can use it to set your profile up one time, even if you don't want to use vCard or microformats (both of which are non-intrusive, semantic additions)
I'd suggest this function should be contributed in a similar way - as an extension to an already existing module, rather that just a stand-alone module that does one thing, once.

Converge with openID or something eventually?

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Tenx-1’s picture

Tenx-1 commented

What you want to achieve can be done with the PROFILE module and the REALNAME module , just install those two modules.

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adaven commented

Well that saves me a lot of effort, thanks for all the replies! I'll probably go with realname as I'm already using content_profile.