fullname to firstname & lastname fields

Does anyone have experience of spliting the fullname field to two separate fields for firstname and lastname?
I really need to do this for a project so any tips would be much appreciated.

Use a TV for each name so that you have individual fields. Then build the name in the output by placing the TV placeholders like [*firstName*] [*lastName*]. This way you can sort by last name sortBy`[*lastName*]`.

I think that he means the webuser credetials
you could add some field in the database but standard its not there

I think you are right, I misunderstood.

you could usee the loginname as first name and the fullname as last ndame

I think that might be more confusing than adding a last name column to the user_attributes table.

Obviously I’ll need to trail through the code and add the necessary extra php.

I’m generally reluctant to meddle with the modx core but it’s unavoidable in this case.
There’s the option of adding the column to the extended attributes table (using webloginple) but this would seem really weird!

Was just wondering if anyone has ever had to do this and could pass on some tips/warnings.