Re: desired: example of a user class for website

[matthewb]

You're not getting any answers because your question is too vague. No one knows what sort of data you want to manipulate about your users.

If you don't know already, the place to find packages is CPAN where you'll be able to peek inside thousands of pre-built classes which will either solve your problem entirely or at least give you some good ideas.

MB

[nmerriweather]

all the cpan modules i've looked through and used tend to have objects as datatypes

i'm looking for a more generalized user class, that would - for example, be for a user for a user of a messageboard. it would contain their profile, and perhaps handle their registration. perhaps a reply to a topic would be a subclass of the user.

is this making any sense?

[Zaxo]

...perhaps a reply to a topic would be a subclass of the user.

That's a flashing red light to your line of thought. A reply is not a user. Rethink the design you have cooking so that a Topic has a Reply, which has an Author, who is a User. That's fundamental OO design.