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I'm investigating how I might implement a Contribution form that has more than one custom field group.  I say "field group" instead of "custom profile" because I don't really care how CiviCRM wants to group its fields at the controller level;  if it's easiest to hack in a second profile (AFAICT you can only have one custom profile in 2.2), then I'd do that;  if it's easier to to change the way that the profile renders at the Smarty template level, I'd do that.  Mostly, I want a flexible solution that will require touching core as little as possible, and preferably not at all.

What's the best solution for this kind of job in 2.2?

Lobo,

Much obliged.  Cool new hooks.  I'll look at the example code as well.

Rob

Hey, not bad activity for a dad.

I've looked through the code, trying to get the gestalt of it.  I can see pretty clearly how to get in to do the job of the controllers.  It's less clear what I need to do at the template level.

For now, I'm just moving the "pre" profile down the page to just before the "post" profile.  This is a one line change in Mail.tpl.

One thing I might want to do is to get Yes/No type fields to render as checkboxes.  I assume I'd have to write a custom implementation of the profile with the yes/no questions, and do some post processing so that the checkboxes would look right to the controllers.

Is this possible without too much insanity, and if it is, what's the best way to go about doing this?