By crionox on
I'm a newbie module developer - still trying to wrap my head around everything - and had a question that so far I haven't found a straightforward answer/example for:
Can someone point me to some example code for specifying the addition of user profile fields upon the install of a module? I'm assuming that this would just be another call housed within the .install file. I did find one example, but testing it out kind of borked my site: everything just disappeared, so I really didn't have any errors or info to help with debugging what the issue might be.
I'm sure there's a standard hook or something to help with this (?), but so far my searching hasn't turned up too much. Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
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Hacking forms or direct insert
It looks like the only thing that profile itself provides is a form submit function in profile.admin.inc. Emulating forms is how patterns creates site configurations. I'm not too much of a fan of going that far, and would find it easier to insert into the respective table directly (profile_fields).
I see...
Thanks for the heads-up, I'll definitely check into that more. Seems like something that would be a good candidate for a "hook" though.