[bigrover]

I am trying to add data to a new field/column named 'loginname' in the user table.

I made some progress by dropping previous examples and hacking at it myself. In the ipb2/004.php file I made the following changes in the data assignment section at line 129:

// hack
// $try->set_value('mandatory', 'username', $user_details['name']);
$try->set_value('mandatory', 'username', $user_details['members_display_name']);
$try->set_value('mandatory', 'loginname', $user_details['name']);
// end hack

I also hacked the results display section at line 266 to display the new datafield 'loginname':

// hack
// $displayobject->display_now('<br /><span class="isucc"><b>' . $try->how_complete() . '%</b></span> ' . $displayobject->phrases['user'] . ' -> ' . $try->get_value('mandatory','username'));
$displayobject->display_now('<br /><span class="isucc"><b>' . $try->how_complete() . '%</b></span> ' . $displayobject->phrases['user'] . ' -> ' . $try->get_value('mandatory','username') . ' -> ' . $try->get_value('mandatory','loginname'));
// end hack

Lastly, I added a record to the vbfields table for the 'loginname' field in the users table. When I REDO the user import now, the correct information is displaying on the screen, meaning both the username and loginname fields are displayed with the correct data. But I am still not getting the loginname into the users table. The set_value function working at least to the point of having the data where the get_value function can read it to be displayed. What I haven't found is the code that is updating the table.

--------------- Added [DATE]1281036061[/DATE] at [TIME]1281036061[/TIME] ---------------

I finally resolved my problem by finding the import_user function in the ImpExDatabaseCore.php file (not to be confused with the deceptively similar function in ImpExDatabase.php) and added the loginname field to the sql update statement.

Now I get to move on and deploy my blind loginname hack and test it with the imported userdata.