blueyed has done a some fantastic work on the OpenID plugin.
There is a cool idea to use the OpenID URL (the author illustrated that on a OpenID-enabled WordPress blog) to find person's FOAF profile to link to from user's comments:
- http://apassant.net/blog/2008/01/06/wordpress-foaf-openid-updated/
- http://apassant.net/blog/2008/01/12/one-foaf-fits-all/
I would love to have the same functionality for b2evolution and could add the necessary code, but where should we store a FOAF URL associated with a person?
Is there currently an appropriate database field, or would it be a new field in one of the tables used by the OpenID plugin? (There is hardly a reason to create a separate table just for this property)
Thanks,
Uldis
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As discussed on IRC, we both think that having a FOAF URL associated to a profile makes sense in the long term.
(We currently have AIM, ICQ etc stored in the users profile.)
I think most of the user fields should get moved out (also from the UI) by default and the system needs to be more configurable (and extendable), e.g. an admin can add new fields or a plugins adds fields (instead of storing them in an own table), later this can be even overwritten per blog.