trying to add new user data fields

Discussion in 'Customization & add-ons' started by pancakeunicorn, Jan 5, 2009.

  1. pancakeunicorn

    pancakeunicorn New Member

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    I have an e-learning site driven by amember. I would like to add a field which displays the user's lesson history and evaluation results. My idea is to add the data manually to a mysql database from which the information would by queried and displayed.

    So my question is: is there a practical way to add this script to member pages? If somebody has a simple solution, please post. Otherwise, I may be willing to pay an experienced programmer to handle the task.

    Thanks
  2. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    Hi,

    What e-learning system are you using?

    Session variables are available to obtain the username of the logged in user so a query of the e-learning database to retrieve user status is very doable.
  3. pancakeunicorn

    pancakeunicorn New Member

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    It's not an e-learning "system", so there's no plug-in or code integrated with amember. What I want to do is add a results field to the amember database so that I can add teacher comments and scores that will automatically populate a "results" field when the user logs in and checks his/her results.

    This is probably beyond the scope of this forum, but I'd appreciate any advice.
  4. sellers_circle

    sellers_circle New Member

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    Any luck on this ever??? I also need to make a similar customization..
  5. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Go to amember admin, add fields.

    This will let you add a field to the user database.

    David
  6. celina

    celina Member

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    i've used this to make a new field in the user database. What i still cant' figure out is how to include that field in emails. does anybody have an answer? please?

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