My client is asking to have users defined as first name, last name. Is there any way of doing this without hacking into the K2 users component?

 

I'm wondering why that wasn't done in the first place...it would have been so easy.

Quick two ways to approach this w/o making core changes.

1. Use Categories for each user, an item for each user with xtra fields for all their info.. Test for user, and echo the proper info in an override. (trouble and extra work)

2. Use php string functions to split and display the user name which is usually entered as first last in username field and you have direct accessto in an override...

another approach may be to use another extensions integration ie: jomsocial and use their registation form and put those fields in the override

 

Thanks for your quick reply...

I'm not really looking to add any more components than I already have.This issue came up rather late in the development process.

I will have to try to use the K2 users table to export the information for the client. I also noticed just now that the additional fields created by the User Extended Fields for K2 plugin are all in one field in the K2 users table called "plugins". So my question now is how do you export this mess as an Excel file with separate fields for address, phone etc. I'm not a developer but I think this is a really stupid way of doing things.

My reply was to use the standard fields for k2 and fetch them out for display on the website in some manner, not to export them.

I have not used user extended fields for k2, but i think thats what they are for. If they are stored in one field it would be the same way k2 stores its extra fields and would have to be seperated into first and last either before displaying them on the site or after exporting the field...with excel etc, there should be a delimiter to work with. In php you basically put the field into an array and refer to the elements of the array on the fly.

Other products like jomsocial will probably give you this ability built in and the users will be gathered by them, and then synced with jomla and k2 users

Thanks for your reply. I'm going to have to pick the data apart somehow. I'm not a programmer. Ultimately a MYSQL table or CSV export is just text so I'll find a way.

 

I think it would have been better if the K2 extended fields plugin saved the extra data in separate fields instead of one field.

 

There are components to export Joomla user table and K2 content but not K2 users.

If you are wanting to display the users name in the front end take one approach, if exporting take the other

Okeydokey. Thanks