User Profiles

A big part of any social networking site is the user profiles. Profiles let your users get to know each other and put a face on the anonymous internet. They can be basic, with little more than name, join date, and a few facts, or elaborate and complex. It all depends on the needs of your community. While the core profile module works for simple profiles, no one module will create a complex profile like you find on Myspace and Facebook. Instead, we start with a base module and link other contribs to it.

This section starts with the notes I gathered as I decided which base module build my profiles. Then comes the first and second tutorials. These served the community for a long time and are left for historical purposes, but I don't recommend using them anymore. Version 3 has turned into the Advanced Profile module. There will be tutorials to go with it but the bulk of the work will be done for you so the tutorials will focus on explaining what it's doing and giving ideas for enhancing it.

If you have any questions, please use the issue queue or my support forum. Also, I'd prefer it if people link to this node rather than subpages so people following the link always have the most up to date info.