Magento. Add gender and Date of birthday to registration form

Question

I want to put 2 fields on user registration form, /customer/account/create/. Those fields are gender selection and day of birth.

As I saw magento's customer module already has those 2 attributes, so If I don't mistake, I don't need to mess up with tables.

So how this can be done? Via observers? Or controller rewrite? What is better option?

My Magento is 1.5.

Answer 1

I only have a magento 1.6 version installed and there you have the options at:

Configuration → Customers → Cusotmers Configuration → Name and Address Options

Show Date of Birth
Show Gender