On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:52 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > For now, you can post an entry on AlterEgo, although I believe there > is already one on the topic.
I've been sort of frustrated by AlterEgo, but maybe I don't know how to use it. Is the "question" form a general search? If I enter 'auth', I get nothing back. And are there more articles than are shown, or are all the articles 'popular'? Articles ought to be dated. > > We also have the wiki: https://web2py.com/wiki > although I have not seen much activity there. Perhaps it is my fault. > > If anybody wants to setup a better wiki, I will link it. Somebody suggested the Google Code wiki, though I suppose that rather locks it in to Google Code. > > Massimo > > On Jul 30, 9:18 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Carl wrote: >> >> >> >>> Fran - thanks. that's great. C >> >> I keep seeing great tips like this fly past on the mailing list. I >> try >> to mark them, but it emphasizes how useful it would be to be able to >> accumulate knowledge in a ... knowledge base. I know that's not a new >> suggestion, but mailing lists aren't structured, and they tend not to >> be search-friendly. >> >> >> >>> On Jul 29, 8:53 pm, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> On Jul 29, 8:13 pm, Carl <carl.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>> for the future: being able to set my own form for register() would >>>>> be >>>>> real nice. at present I can do that only if I want to pull in a >>>>> remote >>>>> authentication system. >> >>>> You can have extra fields on the register() form very easily - the >>>> form is simply a SQLFORM of the auth_user table...so just create a >>>> custom auth_user table with the fields you want before you call >>>> auth.define_tables() >> >>>> You can also make a full custom form in the usual way: >>>> In the view instead of {{=form}} you can do: >>>> {{=form.custom.begin}} >>>> {{=form.custom.widget.first_name}} >>>> etc >>>> {{=form.custom.submit}} >>>> {{=form.custom.end}} >> >>>> & surround these elements with whatever HTML you want... >> >>>> As long as the mandatory fields are populated then you're good to >>>> go :) >> >>>> F > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
