How to create dropdown list options for Extra Field in "User Registration Fields"?

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How to create dropdown list options for Extra Field in "User Registration Fields"?

For example, I want to create a drop down list of Occupations for user to select during registration.

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Also, how to create radio buttons field for registration page?

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Originally Posted by Success

bump .

have you figured it out ? also interested in the solution.

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no, still looking.

Eric, can this be done?

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Originally Posted by Success

no, still looking.

Eric, can this be done?

It can be done, just about anything can with the developer edition and the coding know how.

Your going to have to hard code the radio buttons or dropdown fields in the template. Then give them a name that coresponds to the extra field you want to use. currently there is extra, extra2 and extra3. When theform is processed the underlying script already looks for values in those fields and should add the values to the user registration.

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If you create a dropdown list of occupations, usual lists like this will have more than ten items.

An issue I have been thinking is, a user may be from your country, or main location of your classifieds, but is now staying overseas in another country.

Another user, a foreigner, may be from overseas but is now staying in your country.

So what should each of them choose for the Country field?

To solve this, we can use the current countries list as "Nationality" and create another country list as "Current Country of Residence."

If you were to create a dropdown list of countries, the items are in the hundreds.

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Originally Posted by Success

If you create a dropdown list of occupations, usual lists like this will have more than ten items.

An issue I have been thinking is, a user may be from your country but is now staying in overseas, another user may be from overseas but is now staying in your country.

To solve this, we can use the current countries list as "Nationality" and create another country list as "Current Country of Residence"

If you were to create a dropdown list of countries, the items are in the hundreds.

Ok, so whats the question?

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So the hard coding method and the current 3 extra fields are not really suitable to create dropdown fields.

It would be much user friendly on the admin side if one can create new fields and choose normal text, radio or dropdown lists, then entering the items into the control panel to create such fields.

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Originally Posted by Success

So the hard coding method and the current 3 extra fields are not really suitable to create dropdown fields.

It would be much user friendly on the admin side if one can create new fields and choose normal text, radio or dropdown lists, then entering the items into the control panel to create such fields.

I guess user friendly depends on your comfort level with HTML. Adding dropdown extra fields as you can now for categories is just as slow or slower for me than adding them manually to the template.

For your specific case, if you want to present someone a list where the data is already in your clasified site, then it would be easy enough to add a database query to the unserjoin file to collect the values and send them to the userjoin template for display in a dropdown. Certainly much easier to code than to manually enter 200+ items to a dropdown whether done via admin interface or by hand in the template.