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Managing User Profiles with PHP/MySQL for Beginners

I am beginner in PHP/MySql and would develop a simple site that has user management. I like the idea of using OpenId's (like stackoverflow uses). I wonder from where to start? What should I read? I have not much time so probably will net enter in all details of PHP user session management, this because I search something like User pro...

Data in custom attribute not returned in UserProfile object in MOSS

I've created two new custom attributes in the UserProfile. When the service we wrote returns data about a specific user by using the UserProfile object, sometimes the data isn't returned, even though if we look at the user in SSP it look populated. Some users work; this is the first user we set up with data. I'm not sure if sometime i...

Django - User account with multiple identities

Synopsis: Each User account has a UserProfile to hold extended info like phone numbers, addresses, etc. Then, a User account can have multiple Identities. There are multiple types of identities that hold different types of information. The structure would be like so: User |<-FK- UserProfile | |<-FK- IdentityType1 |<-FK- Identity...

Can I point two separate ASP.NET websites to the same profile database?

I'd like two websites to have read/write access to the same user profile database (named "aspnetdb" by default). Presumably this is possible by configuring the websites appropriately in the web.config. Are there any issues I should be wary of? ...

Looking for search syntax documentation for SharePoint UserProfileManager.Search Method

Greetings - I have a SharePoint 2010 server running with the User Profile service setup to synchronize to Active Directory. I'd like to use the UserProfileManager.Search() method to return user profiles based on specific criteria. MSDN documentation for this method is here. It states that the method will return user profiles that match...

Proper way to define "remaining time off" for a Django User

I've implemented a UserProfile model (as the Django 1.2 docs say is the proper way to save additional data about a User) which has a 'remaining_vacation_hours' field. In our current system, when a user fills out a Time Off Request, the remaining hours available should be checked to see that they have enough vacation to use, or otherwis...

Custom List form - Autopopulate Manager

Hi, I have a Sharepoint 2007 custom list with a column named 'Manager', to hold the user's Manager (single line of text). When creating a new item I want the NewForm.aspx to autopulate the Manager field with the user's manager. I know we can autopulate list form fields using JQuery to access Sharepoint's 'User Information List' expose...

MOSS2007 UserProfile Property: programmatic access to "mapped attribute" in AD

As you may know, MOSS 2007 offers functionality to synchronize Active Directory properties to SharePoint UserProfile Properties. You can map AD properties to userProfile properties in Shared Services > User Profile and Properties > View Profile properties (all the way at the bottom). I'm currently investigating the possibility to synchr...

Why my BDC is not importing new profiles from DB table?

I have 72000 profiles records in SSP profiles database. I connected this BDC with SQL table. SQL table has 81000 records. When I do full Import it is importing only 72000 records only, not complete 81000 records. How to get them into SSP? ...

How to show profile field Values to one simple page in drupal 6?

Hey guys i want to get the custom profile fields which i have made in user profile part, i want to get that values and show on one simple page i have tried this one.... <?php print $profile['Personal Information']['profile_fname']['#value']; ?> but its not working.... i want to show all the fields on that page.... thanks in advanc...

Twitter API/Query to search in user profiles?

Is there some way I can search in the profiles of users on Twitter? e.g. User A has mentioned that he is "security, hacking geek" and his website is http://hackme.com Now i want to search in 2 ways: Search for "security" or "hacking" in user profiles and all users including A who have the word security in their profiles will be retur...

Using Sharepoint 2010 user profiles to store user information for a public facing website.

Hi, We're planning to use Sharepoint 2010 as a CMS for a website we're building. This site will also have login functionality; and my boss suggested we use Sharepoint's user profile features to store user info (username, password, contact info, etc.) for the site. How is this better then say using a standard list or a database table som...

How do I edit link tabs found on the default user profile page in drupal?

How do I edit link tabs found on the default user profile page in drupal? I'm trying to avoid having to create a user_profile.tpl.php file and rebuild the entire profile from scratch. If there's an easier way to do this, I'd rather do that. But, if I'm forced to create a custom template, how do I control the menu tabs for the profile? I ...

How to display a custom profile based on a specific role?

For example I have a role called "teachers". For any user that belongs to that role, I want to be able to display a custom profile that is different then the main one. I read at some place that one can make a tpl file in the pages folder of the theme and some how it could be made to show for specific roles or URL path. Would anyone care...

import user profiles in MOSS 2007 server into my SharePoint 2010

Hi, I want to import user profiles in MOSS 2007 server into my SharePoint 2010 server. Can anyone please suggest how can i go about achieving the same. Can we import user profiles using Business Data Connection in Configure Synchronization Connection in User Profile Service Application in SharePoint 2010. Why i am doing this: I want...

Overriding user edit profile form

Im using theme_user_profile_form($form) and putting in the line unset ($form['timezone']); But it doesnt remove that item from the page I try: theme_preprocess_user_profile_form but it doesnt appear to work. All I want to do is remove some portions of the user profile edit form, such as theme select, timezone etc ...

Creating/Running Android Virtual Device through Eclipse with networked user profile

Our user profiles are stored on a networked share (\shared-server\clientdata$\username). When I create an AVD through the SDK and AVD manager everything seems to appear to work correctly. When I try to start it I get the following errors: emulator: ERROR: unknown virtual device name: 'test_avd' emulator: could not find virtual device ...

exception when update userprofile sharepoint 2010 using webservice

hello everyone, i update userprofile using the code below using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace UserProfileWebServiceApp { class Program { public static localhost.UserProfileService myService = new localhost.UserProfileService(); UserProfileWebService.localh...

Facing problem with user profile url scheme like example.com/username in django

In a django app, I need to create twitter user profile urls with following structure like: example.com/<username> example.com/<username>/friends example.com/<username>/blog example.com/<username>/some-page example.com/<username>/some-other-page My urls.py: urlpatterns = patterns('profiles.views', url(r'^(?P<account_name>[a-zA-Z0...

Django Interleaving UserProfile with Profile in Admin

I have a User Profile which is currently shown in the Admin via a Stacked Inline. However because I have fields such as last_name_prefix and last_name_suffix (for foreign names such as Piet van Dijk to cover proper sorting by last name) I would like to be able interleave the user profile fields with the normal change user fields. So in t...