Member fields

Introduction

Since 1.0.1

An Autograph field can be a member field, so a signature belongs to a member rather than to an entry. Use it for a signed agreement at registration, or a signature a member keeps on file.

Create it under Members › Member Fields and choose Autograph as the type. It has the same settings as a channel field, and the signature is saved the same way: a PNG image in the member's data.

On a member's profile

In the control panel, the field appears on the member's profile with the other custom fields. Save in Control Panel works as it does for channel fields: on, the profile shows the pad; off, it shows the saved signature read-only. See Control panel.

At registration

Turn on Show in registration? for the field, then output it in {exp:member:registration_form} by its short name:

templates/default_site/members.group/register.html

{exp:member:registration_form return="members/welcome"}
    <label for="username">Username</label>
    <input type="text" name="username" id="username">

    {!-- email, password and the other required fields --}

    <label>Sign to accept the membership agreement</label>
    {field:member_signature}

    <button type="submit">Register</button>
{/exp:member:registration_form}

On a profile edit form

{exp:member:edit_profile} outputs the pad the same way, with the member's saved signature drawn on it:

templates/default_site/members.group/edit.html

{exp:member:edit_profile return="members/profile"}
    <label>Your signature</label>
    {field:member_signature}

    <button type="submit">Save</button>
{/exp:member:edit_profile}

Scripts

Member forms don't print the scripts and styles that fields ask for, the way Channel Forms do. So in a member form, Autograph prints autograph.js and autograph.css itself, just after the first Autograph field on the page. There's nothing to add to the template.

Displaying a member's signature

The template tags work for member fields too, wherever ExpressionEngine parses member fields, such as {exp:member:custom_profile_data}:

templates/default_site/members.group/profile.html

{exp:member:custom_profile_data}
    {if member_signature}
        <img src="{member_signature:url}" alt="Signature of {screen_name}">
    {/if}
{/exp:member:custom_profile_data}

Before 1.0.1

Autograph 1.0.0 was offered as a member field type, but signatures never saved there.