I need to have more control over custom profile fields

[Justice]

isn't there an easier way to do this without adding another database table? I noticed on the view profile page, instead of having $customfields create everything for you, you can call custom fields individually by adding $userinfo[field#] in the template. Couldn't something similar be done on the edit profile and registration pages?

[Admin]

First of all, we added a field, not a table.

And like I said before, there's no difference between adding it from the control panel and adding it using a query. Both will create a new field, only in the control panel it will create it in a different table (userfield).

[Justice]

I went searching last night...
have you seen this?

I think it does the same thing we're trying to do here, if I'm not mistaken

[Admin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FireFly
I think I know what you mean.
I'll find the thread in a sec.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=21833

But I remember that it uses flat files, which kinda sucks (IMO).

This is exactly how it's done with the other drop-down fields in vBulletin.
I dunno, but for me it looks like the easiest, cleanest way to do this.
I know it requires a bit hacking, but not TOO much of it.

Maybe a hack can be written to do this automatically...

[Justice]

"D'OH!!!" -Homer