php - Can no longer add registration fields in Magento 1.4.2.0

Question

I have used this tutorial before for adding registration fields to the Magento registration page.

It has always worked, but since I have upgraded to Magento 1.4.2.0 it no longer does. The attributes I add no longer show up under the customers information tab in the backend like it did before and are not getting saved. The attributes install into the database fine though. I thought maybe the config.xml part had changed but I checked it against the core customer one and the attributes are sill shown the same way:

<flavour><create>1</create><update>1</update></flavour>

Something must have changed since the last 1.4.2 beta because it worked fine then. If someone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated and I could finally get some sleep! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I have been struggling with this one quite some time untill I figured it out. Since 1.4.2, the attributes to show in the admin's customer's form have to be in table customer_form_attribute.
You can add them with an upgrade in your module's setup, with this code:

$eavConfig = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config');
$attribute = $eavConfig->getAttribute('customer', 'your_attributes_code');
$attribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('adminhtml_customer'));
$attribute->save();

Hope that helps.