Advanced Profile

The third incarnation of my user profiles tutorial, this time in module form, has arrived. I'd like to introduce the Advanced Profile module. It still needs work and isn't feature complete, but it's a good start and available to play around with.

It's been a long road getting here. In April of 2007, I spent a few weeks of free time learning nodeprofile and theming and put together what I thought was a pretty nice looking user profile for Coulee Region ONLINE. Since so many people had helped me learn while I struggled to create it, I decided to pass on the knowledge by writing a tutorial. It turned out to be more popular than I ever imagined and generated quite a few support requests. A lot of that was lost when I moved the tutorial between sites but I think the comments were over 400!

Having so many people use the tutorial pointed out a lot of flaws. Between that and improvements to the modules I used, I decided it was time to write a second version a few months later. This version improved on the first quite a bit but also had some issues I was never able to track down. The forums here are filled with support requests in addition to what I've gotten by email and on IRC. I'm having a terrible time keeping up with all the support and a few months ago I started thinking it was really time to do a version 3.