Hi All (but specifically UncleCheese),

Hoping you might be able to help me out here.

I have extended the Member class to include a fair few additional fields (code posted below). Basically I am building a site for long-term traveling families (or nomadic families) like me called VagabondFamily.org.

Each family will be able to create a Family Profile on the site. I then display the profile etc.

I have also installed the Postale module so that families can DM one another. At this point I have one member account per family so I don't really use the FirstName field, but instead use the additional field AccountNickName.

I would really like for the facebook style search functionality to look into this field as well at the FirstName, LastName and probably also a couple of other fields like TwitterAccount, Website, MothersName, FathersName.

I'm not super at digging so deep into the code base but I saw a comment that I think might help me, but I don't really know how to use the information and hoping you might be able to give me a bit of direction.

/postale/code/MessagesPage.php - Line 26.

Thanks in advance for any advice you might have.

Regards,
Colin

	/**
	 * @var string A filter clause for the members search. For more advanced functionality,
	 * use {@link getSearchableMembers()} in a decorator
	 */
	public static $members_filter = null;

<?php
//mysite/code/Family.php
class Family extends DataObjectDecorator{
	function extraStatics(){
		return array(
			'db' => array(
				'AccountNickName' => 'Varchar(50)',
			    'TwitterAccount' => 'Varchar(15)',
        		'FacebookProfile' => "Varchar(100)",
		        'RSSFeed' => "Varchar(100)",
		        'Website' => "Varchar(100)",
		        'MothersName' => 'Varchar(15)',
		        'FathersName' => 'Varchar(15)',
		        'WhereAreYouFrom' => 'Varchar(150)',
		        'HowManyChildren' => "enum('One on the way, 1 Child,2 Children,3 Children,4 Children,5 Children,6 Children,7 Children, 8 Children, More than 8 Children')",
		        'AgeOfYoungestChild' => 'Varchar(50)',
				'AgeOfEldestChild' => 'Varchar(50)',
		        'NorthAmerica' => 'Boolean',
		        'CentralAmerica' => 'Boolean',
		        'Caribbean' => 'Boolean',
		        'SouthAmerica' => 'Boolean',
		        'MiddleEast' => 'Boolean',
				'IndianSubcontinent' => 'Boolean',
				'SouthEastAsia' => 'Boolean',
				'NorthEastAsia' => 'Boolean',
				'AustralasiaAndPacific' => 'Boolean',
				'WesternEurope' => 'Boolean',
				'EasternEurope' => 'Boolean',
				'Africa' => 'Boolean',
		        'TravelStatus' => "enum('Dreaming, Planning, On the Road, Finished')",
		        'TravelDuration' => "enum('less than 1 month, 1 month, 1-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 1-2 years, indefinite')",
		        'DepartureDate' => 'Date',
				'WhenWillYouFinish' => 'Date',
		        'TravelBudget' => "enum('Super Budget ( < than \$50/day), Budget (< than \$100/day), Medium (\$100 - \$200/day), Luxury ( > \$200/day)')",
		        'WhatDoYouWantToAchieve' => 'Text',
		        'FamilyInfo' => 'Text',
		        'GreatestFear' => 'Text',
		        'Enabled' => 'Boolean',
			),
			'defaults' => array(
			     'TwitterAccount' => '@'
			),
			'has_one' => array(
                'FamilyProfileImage' => 'Image',
            ),
		);
	}
}
?>

Just incase anyone cares, I just hacked & bastardised UncleCheeses code to get things working the way I wanted them to work.

The code now displays a new caption, searches on a new set of fields and works beautifully.

A very very big thank-you to UncleCheese for coding all of this up...

Cheers,
Colin