How does one go about adding a first name and last name to the forum?

aligajani

Is there an extension that does this already? It would save me tons of work.

luceos

Perhaps flagrow/masquerade?

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/5791-flagrow-masquerade-user-profile-builder

aligajani

luceos Excellent stuff. Looks like a bit more than what I need?

Ralkage

aligajani It's actually what you'll need and then some. You never know when you'd want to add extra fields, Masquerade makes it so you never run into this issue.

But if you want to take the high road, you would have to develop an extension that just adds that one field and that's no fun! ?

aligajani

Ralkage okay, I have installed and enabled the field, but I can't see to be it in full effect. It is not showing up in the signup form, it is only showing up in the database table. How can I control the visibility of the field so it shows instead of the username?

Kyrne

aligajani It won't be in the sign up form, the users have to set their fields manually.

aligajani

Okay as an admin, I have set the field to be required in their profile. Now imagine, I am adding a user through an API, how do I update the newly created masquerade field via API as well.

luceos

aligajani the same way the frontend does.. ? Flarum frontend also uses the api, you just need to identify the payload send.

aligajani

No the problem is this. I wish to be able to create the user and at the same time put in the full_name in the masquerade field. I don't see this documented clearly. My approach is using SSO so I don't want the user to fill this information by themselves. The SSO user creation process must do this.

I am able to user accounts by POSTing to /api/users/ with payload ( "data" => [
"type" => "users",
"attributes" => [) but not sure how to fill in the full name in that same passage of code.

clarkwinkelmann

I'm not sure it's possible. There's currently a single /api/masquerade/configure endpoint that allows a user to edit its fields. The user that gets edited depends on who is logged in.

There's currently some work in progress on Masquerade so this endpoint might get changed to allow edit of other users than the logged in one.

aligajani

Thanks. You just gave me a hint towards a solution.
I will be using the flarum_remember cookie session to make the call right after they login.
This would do the trick.

lbaumann

aligajani Would you mind explaining how you ended up doing this? I am trying to implement a similar solution