Hi guys, I saw that the Auth user model has a field named "profile_fields". I have tried to save there some information (name, surname and other) but I don't know how to do that.
If you're using Simpleauth, profile_fields is a database column containing a serialized array. Anything you pass to update_user() that is not a valid column will be stored in that array, and you can use the get() method to get it our again. If you're using the ORM model, it will automatically unserialize it for you, so you can access the field as an array.
If you're using Ormauth, profile_fields is not used, additional data is stored in the user metadata table, using EAV. You can access it using standard ORM object properties, any field name not in the user table will be assumed to be an EAV attribute.
How did you 'fix'/access the unserialized data? Mine is returning a serialized data string as you described. I'm using Simpleauth, my User model is Model_User extending \Orm\Model - should I be using a different class?
If you're accessing the user table using an ORM model, you need to use the typing observer, and define the data type of the profile_fields column as "serialize".
It will make sure the data will be converted to an array on read, and back to serialized form on write.
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