[development] Getting both better internal and external APIs intoDrupal 7

[Matthew Farina]

FYI, as of the latest version of bio you can put fields on the  
registration form.

Matt

On Dec 30, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Wim Mostrey wrote:

> I don't think bio is a good candidate for this, if the plan is to
> replace the profile module. Bio does not allow to put fields in the  
> user
> registration form, which in my opinion is a required functionality for
> core. From my experience node profile does the cleanest of this (to  
> make
> it core-worthy the node family dependency would need to be dropped of
> course).
>
> Wim
>
> blogdiva at culturekitchen.com wrote:
>>
>> On  30.Dec.2007, at 10:28, Michelle Cox wrote:
>>> What would be ideal is to have in core some way of optionally
>>> associating a user with a node type as bio does and also include in
>>> core a lightweight non-node solution for holding profile data for
>>> those who don't want a node for every user. Then people could use
>>> Panels 2 (which would be lovely to have in core someday) to display
>>> this "user profile object" as well as anything else they want on  
>>> that
>>> page.
>>
>> HOT!
>>
>> +1 for including into core :
>>
>> CCK
>> Bio
>> Panels
>>
>> I need more coffee so I can find the notes of a wishlist I have been
>> compiling for a while. I do know that ICONIZER and BUEditor would be
>> ideal for those of us who would like Drupal to focus on usability and
>> better design. I also understand the need to make the default distro
>> lightweight. For that matter, I still believe there needs to be a
>> serious push for different "default" distributions --and please,  
>> let's
>> stop calling those "profiles" because it's confusing with the term
>> "profile".
>>
>> Anyhow ... more ... coffee ...
>>
>> / liza
>>
>>
>>
>> Liza Sabater, Publisher
>> www.culturekitchen.com
>> www.dailygotham.com
>>
>>