Let the user set a "home" folder to jump to after logging in

I am just looking for an idea how to best let a user choose a ("Home-")folder and have the ID of this folder saved during the user's registration. I would like to direct the user to his home-folder after login for example. Thank you for your help!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/17/2010 11:35AM by Maurice Makaay.

Not really on topic for the enhanced custom profiles module, so I split this off.

What's the idea with doing this during the user's registration? It sounds more like a feature that a user wants to access after registration and after using the forums ("Make this my startup page after logging in"). Choosing a folder during signup seems like putting a feature in the wrong spot to me.

If I would implement something like this, I wouldn't make it an "after login" folder. I would rather provide the user with a kind of in-Phorum bookmark list, where he/she can quickly jump to the pages that are bookmarked. I think that this would be a more useful feature, but maybe you have a different use case in mind here.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/17/2010 11:35AM by Maurice Makaay.

I apparently forgot to send my reply. The reason why I want to give the user the option to choose his home-folder during registration is the fact that I want to spare him the frustration in case the site is not for him. As Thomas recommended I inserted code from the "Favorite Forum" module into register.tpl. The drop-down is correctly listing all folders. I am currently working on a small baby-laptop and I just have difficulties to set the custom variable "folder_sel" with the according folder_id. Could you look at the last line where I use a hidden <input>-field? It would be very helpful. Thank you!!

Language: PHP
global $PHORUM;
            $forums = phorum_mod_favorite_forums_get_forums();
        $content = "<select name=';FavoriteForums"."[]'; size=';5';>";
        foreach ($forums as $forum_id => $forum_data) {
            if (!empty($forum_data["folder_flag"])) {
 
                $content .= "<option value=\"{$forum_id}\"";
                if (!empty($dropdown_chosen)) {
                    foreach ($dropdown_chosen as $chosen) {
                        if ($chosen == "$forum_id") {
                            $content .= " selected=';selected';";$folder_sel=$chosen;
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }
                $content .= ">".$forum_data["name"]."</option>";
            }
}
        $content .= "</select><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"folder_sel\" value=\"{$folder_sel}\" />";
        print $content;

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2010 02:41PM by korsakov.

I am seeing a number of things wrong here. If you want to save the forum_id to a custom profile field named "folder_sel" then you need to change your code a bit. Drop the whole hidden input field and simple change the select tag's name to folder_sel. So, line 3 becomes:

Language: PHP
$content = "<select name=';folder_sel'; size=';5';>";

line 11 becomes:

Language: PHP
$content .= " selected=';selected';";

and line 19 becomes:

Language: PHP
$content .= "</select>";

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Joe, thank you for showing mercy! You must have visualized me with my 3-month old and a small laptop sharing my lap!
If I could now make the last layer of folders selectable... Thank you anyway, it saved my Sunday afternoon!