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Hello everyone --

First, a warning: I am a total PHP hack. I do not know what I am doing.

My client is looking to have certain attributes be specific to certain groups. I've seen several posts in this forum of people looking for similar functionality, so I thought I would post what progress I've made in case someone can build on it and make it better. I'm sure it's very unsophisticated and kludgy.

The idea I had was to prefix the attribute handle with the group it is specific to. For example, all attributes for the "parent" group begin with "parent_", like "parent_address" and "parent_cell". Then when the login script checks for any new, unfilled attributes, I just tack on those attributes to the list. So the user doesn't fill them out upon initial registration, but rather at the first real login. Seems like an ok compromise.

I copied the login.php file from /concrete/controllers into my /controllers directory, and copied the finishLogin function from concrete/core/single_pages/login.php into my new file.

I then added the following:

// Verify that the user has filled out all
      // required items that are required on register
      // That means users logging in after new user attributes
      // have been created and required will be prompted here to 
      // finish their profile
      $this->set('invalidRegistrationFields', false);
      Loader::model('attribute/categories/user');
      $ui = UserInfo::getByID($u->getUserID());
      $aks = UserAttributeKey::getRegistrationList();
      // HERE IS WHERE WE CREATE A NEW LIST OF AKs
      // get every attribute?
      $attributes = UserAttributeKey::getList();
      // get every group the user is in
      $groups = $u->getUserGroups();
      // for each group the user is in
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lucashaley