Membership numbering

[Gholsie]

Membership Numbering:
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Does this software have the capability to give registered users membership numbers? These numbers can be separate from the internal bulletin board numbering scheme and also allow for customization (such as MER0001, MER0002, etc). Automated numbering is fine, but, it would also need to have a method of manual configuration of numbers in case a database currently exists.

If it doesn't, please consider this a request for that feature. Inserting this data could really save me some headaches on our sports car page.

-- Mike

http://www.240z.org/forums.htm

PS: I'm a UBB user who is considering a switch to vBB.

[JimF]

I'm assuming that you have a club of some sort, and there are membership numbers given to everyone, and you want this info to show up in the profiles of the user? Do you already have the memberships in a mysql database? If so, this could be done relatively easily I presume - you'd just have to cross-reference both databases.

How do you do this currently with the UBB? Do you manually assign people the reg numbers?

I'm sure this could be added on relatively easily, though there are people here who would be able to tell you that definitly one way or the other. The beauty of this program is that it is almost *too* easy to customize to your needs. With UBB it was such a headache to add something if it wasn't already a hack, especially if you weren't a perl guru. With vB the majority of things can be done through HTML templates, or added into easy to understand and well commented code.

Hope this helps :)

-jim

PS: I'm a former UBB user who couldn't happier with vB

[Gholsie]

Originally posted by JimF
I'm assuming that you have a club of some sort, and there are membership numbers given to everyone, and you want this info to show up in the profiles of the user? Do you already have the memberships in a mysql database? If so, this could be done relatively easily I presume - you'd just have to cross-reference both databases.

How do you do this currently with the UBB? Do you manually assign people the reg numbers?


Yes, we have an online club and use a membership roster. I use my own manual numbering system at this time. That's why it would be nice to automate the system while still allowing me to use the same numbers for the existing members.
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[JimF]

Then this would be easy. You just want to track the number? Not any information, like car model, color, year, etc.? I'm sure there is a way you could just add a column to the user table, and it would assign the number automatically at registration. Though I think mysql assigns numbers based on the row that the info is in - such as 1,2,3,etc. I don't know if you could have it be like mem001, mem002, - that is where my knowledge ends. Sorry I can't help you out any further, there are people here who are much better at mysql than I am, and if it's not possible within mysql, I'm sure there is some php code that could be made to do something similar.

Cue: Ed, werehere, Martin, or John :)

-jim

[Martin]

I'm not gonna touch this one. this is more a hack request than a feature request. It seems highly specialized and not something that many people at all would use.

If your purchase is contingent on having this as a feature you're prolly SOL.

[Freddie Bingham]

This is something that would be rather easy to add. The easiest way would be to just take the 'userid' of the user and tack "MEM" onto the front of it don't ya think? The admin would be "MEM1" and so forth. Deletion of users wouldn't free numbers up though if that is something you require.