Tank Auth Adding Fields

Question

I\'ve been working with the Tank Auth library all day and have a question about it. I added two fields to the registration form: first_name and last_name respectively and I\

Answer 1

I noticed a couple things:

private function create_profile($user_id, $data)
{
    $this->db->set('user_id', $user_id);
    $this->db->set('first_name', $first_name);
    $this->db->set('last_name', $last_name);
    return $this->db->insert($this->profile_table_name);
}

$data is an array, I'm assuming you SHOULD pass first_name and last_name here (which you do not).

Also TANK AUTH requires you to updated the columns you need for profile database schema (did you do this? didn't mention).

To correct the code above, you would need to pass more details in the array ($data) like so:

$data['first_name'] = "Bob";
$data['last_name']  = "Smith";

create_profile($user_id, $data); // which would then use the first & last names 

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Not that I want to keep a conversation going about this but...*

You need to do just what I showed you:

• define 2 variables (first & last name) and pass them to the create_profile fn.
• properly USE the variables (don't use $data[0] that is SLOPPY, do $data['first_name'] if that is what you called the array value. There is no reason to be sloppy and do $data[0] -- guessing no less at the key value of your array).
• its not hard, read your code (understand it, if you don't then step back and try to break it down line by line what is happening, I am getting the sense you have NO idea what any of these functions are doing).