Registering forum users.
davecoventry - June 12, 2009 - 13:44
I have just set up a forum using the Advanced Forum Module plus various add ons.
How do I get my new users to register?
Currently they click the 'New User' button on the front page, but all that requires is a user's login and an email address.
I want to harvest more information about my users as well as institute a Catcha device, not to mention a user agreement and/or disclaimer.
Can anyone give me some advice?
As much as I know, the forum
As much as I know, the forum has no separate login. A logged in user registered to the Drupal site can access the forum as long as he has the permission to.
For Captcha, I suppose you have installed the module. You can set it "watch" over the submission/comment forms for particular user roles & I think content types, such as the forum.
These additional modules
ACL: (Access control list API. Has no features on its own, Required by: Forum Access)
Forum Access: Allows forums to be set private and allows forums to be given moderators. ...
Author Pane: gathers information from user related contrib modules into one template.
may give you some additional options if you have not installed them yet.
For user agreement; I use: the Terms of Use module (Adds terms of Use to the registration page).
There's this also, but I have not checked it out http://drupal.org/project/user_terms
If you take time to go to the http://drupal.org/project/modules & look to the right under "User management", you will find modules you might find useful, for example the "user points module & those dealing with pepping up user profile.
Regards
Thanks
I've found a few sites that look like they can help me on this:
http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/matt_cheney/howto_fully_theme_and_custo...
http://drupal.org/node/154242
Thanks again.
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One small caveat-- those appear to be d5 based and the theming system was rewritten and vastly improved for d6. See the excellent theme related screencasts over at http://drupaldojo.com for some great training.
Also, for anything beyond very basic user profiles you'll want the content_profile module which does integrate with the user registration process. You may wish to enable the core profile module first, and see if it will meet your needs.
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You're right
Those seem to be for v5.
I've had a look at using Webform, but surely there's a better way of producing a form than defining each element separately and piece by painstaking piece?
I mean, If I have a form already marked up in HTML with all my fields and widgets (including hidden fields) defined, surely there is some mechanism to import this into my site?
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'import'-- but you can use any html/js/css/php you want in a drupal page with the input format set to "php code" (if it doesn't appear as an option, enable the 'php code' core module).
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