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The issue is for my mod i need 20-30 profile fields, all diff types (text, full text, radio and drop down), all user-editable. I can approach it one of 3 main ways.

1 - Leave it using numbered profile fields which requires a lot of messing around and makes it possibly conflict with existing mods and hard to configure/install (if i decide to release it for other people).

2 - Edit the profile system to allow named fields. This affects a few different places and will require updating the core code every vb update which will probably more work than the former.

3 - Create my own database table/fields. This has no conflicts, except i'm duplicating all the existing profile field code which is exactly suited to what i need (groups, types, values, etc).

There isn't really an elegant way. Best case scenario would be for vb to update their code and support named fields officially. This would be perfect as mod authors can then use these fields very easily throughout their plugins and have no conflicts at all. Cant see a negative for that one.

Not sure of any other ways as i've only been developing for vb for a little over a week lol. Still trying to get my head around the code and way it goes about things after deciding to move to this platform.