Tank Auth Adding Fields

Question

I\'ve been working with the Tank Auth library all day and have a question about it. I added two fields to the registration form: first_name and last_name respectively and I\

Answer 1

What You should do is put the two columns you want in the user_profiles table, then add a function to the models/tank_auth/users.php with something like:

function UpdateProfileInfo ($userID, $firstname, $lastname)
{
    return $this->db->update('user_profiles', array('firstname'=>$firstname, 'lastname'=>$lastname), array('user_id' => $userID)); 
}

Then replace (in /libraries/Tank_auth.php)
function create_user($username, $email, $password, $email_activation)
With
function create_user($username, $email, $password, $email_activation, $userInfo)

Then right beneath (in /libraries/Tank_auth.php)
if (!is_null($res = $this->ci->users->create_user($data, !$email_activation))) { Add
$this->users->UpdateProfileInfo($userInfo["firstname"],$userInfo["lastname"]);

Then replace (in /controllers/auth.php)

        if ($this->form_validation->run()) {                                // validation ok
            if (!is_null($data = $this->tank_auth->create_user(
                    $use_username ? $this->form_validation->set_value('username') : '',
                    $this->form_validation->set_value('email'),
                    $this->form_validation->set_value('password'),
                    $email_activation))) {                                  // success

with:

$userInfo["firstname"] = $this->form_validation->set_value("firstname");
$userInfo["lastname"]  = $this->form_validation->set_value("lastname");

if ($this->form_validation->run()) {                                // validation ok
    if (!is_null($data = $this->tank_auth->create_user(
            $use_username ? $this->form_validation->set_value('username') : '',
            $this->form_validation->set_value('email'),
            $this->form_validation->set_value('password'),
            $email_activation, $userInfo))) {                                   // success

This isn't tested though it should work, tell me how it goes
Max