By calebm12 on

Currently i am using a taxonomy layout to provide dropdown fields on forms created with CCK. Is this the wrong method to go about this with. For instance, one of the forms has a state field, so i used taxonomy to create a listing of states and then have the field on the form related to this taxonomy.
I am really confused when it comes to customizing user profiles...adding fields. it seems the same approach cant be taken...for isntance if i also wanted users to select their state, i would not be able to base this of the taxonomy vocab, but instead manually enter the states as options in a drop down.
Am i using the taxonomy method wrong? I thought that you have to make the fields in taxonomy if you wanted to relate them...for instance all users in FL to view posts that have FL.

Am i looking at this wrong?

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vm commented

user profiles are not a content type nor are they a drupal node. Therefore you can't do something with profiles as you can with "content types" out of the box.

To have profiles treated like nodes, you must look into the content profile.module or the advanced profile kit which has dependencies and one of those may be the content profile.module.

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calebm12 commented

You have been very helpful over the last couple days...thansk for putting up with my steep learning curve.

i will check out the content profile module.

thanks