Plugin to extend user data

Muthaias

I would like to extend the available information about users. How do I go about doing this in the best way when it comes to using the event callbacks?

I thought I could use some of the events in the UserModel but it seems I can't get any of the to fire. Which events are best used when extending the user data?

Any pointers would be helpful, if there's a manual page with listings of events I wouldn't mind looking at it but I can't seem to find one.

Best regards

x00

You might want to look at MyProfile plugin.

Basically the UserTable if you add columns to the User then it will be carried with the $User object, however in instance where it is not you can always Gdn::UserModel->GetID($UserID);, which will return a cached version when available, to ensure there is not excessive querying.

However even better if you are going to add a lot of data is to use the UserMeta table, it is designed for key=>value meta, and work in much the same way that wordpress handles meta.