Adding columns to the CreateUserWizard control using FBA

Question

Hi- I'm wanting to create a user account creation section for unregistered users on our internet site. I want to ask the same questions as the CreateUserWizard control but have a few changes. I want the question to come from a question lookup table in SQL. The user will have a dropdown of available questions and I'll store the questionid they selected and the answer. Also, I want to store 1 other piece of data about the user (SSN).

My questions are: 1) Is forms based authentication an acceptable solution for this if using SSL? 2) Can I add additional columns (questionid and ssn) to the membership table or another table and how do I do that so I can save the info in the 'blessed' way? Will the solution have any negative effect if down the road I want to add password reset/recovery?

When adding columns, does it make sense to invoke Membership.CreateUser rather than using the CreateUserWizard?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

1) Yes it is. You can extend Membership with Profiles, and add any arbitrary fields you like

2) You can customize the CreateUserWizard a great deal, but behind the scenes it just ends up calling Membership.Create user. Personally, I would just roll my own (since it really isn't all that hard) unless you want to use the default wizard. But that is more personal preference then anything else.

NOTE: the link I provided for Profiles assumes you are using a WebSite project. If you are using Web Application projects, there are a few additional steps you can read about here.